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Easy Meatballs

Recipe Notes

  • Try using uncooked quick cooking or old fashioned rolled oats instead of rice!
Kid friendly

Ingredients

1 pound
lean ground beef (15% fat)
1⁄2 cup
uncooked brown or white rice
2⁄3 cup
nonfat or 1% milk
1
egg, slightly beaten
1⁄2 cup
chopped onion (1⁄2 medium onion)
1⁄2 cup
shredded carrot
1⁄2 teaspoon
salt
1⁄4 teaspoon
pepper
S A U C E
1 can
(10.5 ounces) condensed soup (try tomato, cream of mushroom or other flavors)
3⁄4 cup
nonfat or 1% milk

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly spray or oil a shallow baking dish (9" x 13" x 2") with cooking spray.
  2. Combine beef, rice, milk, egg, onion, carrot, salt and pepper. Use a spoon to form 24 meatballs and place in baking dish.
  3. In a separate bowl, combine soup and milk to make the sauce. Mix well. Pour sauce over meatballs.
  4. Cover pan tightly with foil. Bake for 1 hour.
  5. Refrigerate leftovers within 2 hours.

Notes

  • Try using uncooked quick cooking or old fashioned rolled oats instead of rice!
Photo of Easy Meatballs
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hour
Makes: 24 meatballs
Nutrition Facts: View Label
Last updated: 10/22/19

1 Comments for "Easy Meatballs"

Submitted by tierrabonita on Tue, 10/06/2015 - 19:13

My family raved about these! I didn't have onions or carrots on hand so I used frozen peas. And I didn't have condensed soup so I used the following in place of it: 8 oz can tomato sauce + 1T cornstarch + 1T sugar + 1/2 t salt.

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