Easy Baked Meatballs {can add to slow cooker!}

Oh friends, I am excited to share my EASY BAKED MEATBALLS with you today!

A few things to note about this recipe:

1: It’s EASY!
2: You can make them in advance!  (The busy lady’s best friend is a make ahead dinner!)
3: You can eat them right out of the oven or pop them in the slow cooker with a jar of your favorite pasta sauce.
4: My husband is not a big leftover guy.  He prefers to eat his dinner and be done with it…well that is not the case with these meatballs.  He wants them for dinner, AND he wants them the next day for lunch reheated.
5: I use ground beef in my recipe, but of course, you do you.  You can use ground turkey or ground chicken instead if that’s what your family prefers.
6: I typically make a quadruple batch (yup, four pounds of ground beef) for the leftovers.

I hope you love this recipe as much as we do!  It’s on regular rotation at our house!

Enjoy! xx

Easy Baked Meatballs {can add to slow cooker!}

• Author: Mix and Match Mama
• Prep Time: 5 minutes
• Cook Time: 30 minutes
• Total Time: 35 minutes
• Yield: This serves 4, but can easily be doubled or tripled 1x

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Oh friends, I am excited to share my EASY BAKED MEATBALLS with you today!  These are EASY, you can make them in advance, you can eat them right out of the oven or pop them in the slow cooker with a jar of your favorite pasta sauce.  I hope you love this recipe as much as we do!  It’s on regular rotation at our house!  This is a VERY easy recipe to double or triple.  This is enough to serve four good helpings, but totally double it for a bigger batch.

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Ingredients

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• 1 pound of ground beef
• a drizzle of Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO)
• 2 eggs
• ¼ cup of Italian style breadcrumbs (we use g-free)
• about ¼ cup of grated Parmesan cheese
• a handful of torn basil leaves
• a little pinch of garlic powder
• salt and pepper
• a jar of pasta sauce, optional
• prepared rice or pasta, optional

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Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. I like to line a baking sheet with foil for easy clean up.
3. In a large mixing bowl, add in your ground beef, drizzle a little EVOO over the top, add your two eggs into the bowl, add in your breadcrumbs, grated Parm, basil, and garlic powder with a pinch of salt and pepper.
4. Using a wooden spoon, mix all of this together until it’s combined.  After that, start shaping your meatballs (we like golf ball size) and placing them on your baking sheet.  Repeat until you’re done.
5. Pop the baking sheet in the oven and bake about 25 to 30 minutes or until they’re browned and a little bubbly around the edges.
6. At this time, you can remove the meatballs and enjoy right away or if you’re making them and want to keep them warm and serve them later, after they’re pulled from the oven, add them to your slow cooker on either the “keep warm” setting or a very low heat.  Pour a jar of your favorite pasta sauce on top, cover and let them simmer until dinnertime.
7. We like to serve ours over rice or pasta with a garnish of a bit more Parmesan and basil.

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Notes

Several things to note:

1: If you want to make these in advance (that morning or afternoon), after they’re pulled from the oven, add them to your slow cooker on either the “keep warm” setting or a very low heat.  Pour a jar of your favorite pasta sauce on top, cover and let them simmer until dinnertime.

2: We love to serve ours over rice or pasta.

3: If you use gluten-free breadcrumbs, this is an easy g-free recipe.

4: I use ground beef in my recipe, but of course, you do you.  You can use ground turkey or ground chicken instead if that’s what your family prefers.