Meatballs For Your Meals
Quick Tasty & Fun

Our family loves it when they have meatballs with their pasta, rice, or potatoes. This recipe is a great, quick, tasty, hearty and healthy addition to any meal. Our kids had such a blast when they had a plate full of mashed potatoes with eyes, ears, a nose and a mouth shaped with meatballs. Veggies became the hair to complete each 'face plate'. This is a recipe your kids will love to help you make, especially shaping the little balls--ideal for your kids little hands. Even without the extra help this will take under 20 minutes and they're ready to cook.

This recipe makes 60 small meatballs, great to add into your main dish but they get gobbled up pretty fast so they are not too likely to make it into the leftovers. You and your family will love these. They're made from the same ingredients as our hamburgers, but once shaped into balls we can add some homemade sauce for some extra variety and textured flavor.

Here is how you can get started and serve these delicious and healthy little morsels to your family this week. This is a great easy recipe for those little helping hands. Our little one loves to make these with his Dad. Have fun and enjoy them together.

Recipe Step #1: Making 'em

Ingredients List

- 500 g ground beef

- 2 eggs

- 1 small onion finely diced

- 1/4 tsp pepper

- 4 slices of whole wheat bread cut or processed into crumbs

1. Combine & mix all ingredients in a large bowl with your hands
2. Mix 'meat mixture' until all ingredients are evenly incorporated
3. Roll a Tbsp of beef into a ball in your palms, and put it on a plate
4. Continue this process until all the meat has been used

Recipe Step #2: Cooking 'em
We really enjoy them oven baked

Oven Baking Sheet

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius
2. Place them onto a parchment paper lined baking tray
3. Turn them over after 7 minutes
4. Remove when cooked through

OR, If you prefer the stove top...

Stove Top Frying Pan

1. Use a frying pan at medium heat
2. With a wooden spoon help turn or roll them around
3. Remove when cooked through

Recipe Step #3: Saucing Them Up

Stove Top 'saucing'

1. Put them into a pot with the sauce of your choice
2. Heat on the stove top for 10 minutes
3. Remove from the stove and serve with your main dish

Using a homemade sauce can add a little extra taste and it will be enjoyed by your whole family.

We really love our homemade sweet barbecue sauce with our meat balls, some greens and a portion of hearty mashed potatoes Even a rice and meat balls dish is great.

Try these this week for an easy & pleasant change for your whole family.

Here are some details on our recipe

The Serving Totals: Makes 60 small balls
The Preparing Time: under 20 minutes
Cooking Time Total: 10-15 minutes

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