Name: Easy Homemade Meatballs Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 40
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 3 Bread slices; ⅓ cup milk; ½ cup yellow onion; 2 tbsp unsalted butter; 2 lbs Ground Beef; 2 large eggs; ½ tsp kosher salt; ½ tsp cracked black pepper; 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce

Easy Homemade Meatballs Recipe

Brandie Frazier Modified: November 12, 2023

How To Make Easy Homemade Meatballs

These juicy homemade meatballs are made with ground beef and yellow onions cooked until perfectly seared. A perfect make-ahead dish!

Preparation: 10 minutes

Cooking: 15 minutes

Total: 25 minutes

Serves:

Ingredients

3bread slices
⅓cupmilk
½cupyellow onion,minced
2tbspunsalted butter,4 tbsp if cooking immediately
2lbsground beef,80/20
2large eggs
½tspkosher salt
½tspcracked black pepper
1tspWorcestershire sauce

Instructions

In the bowl of a stand mixer add the milk to the slices of bread.
Melt the butter in a pan and add the minced yellow onions. Cook them on medium-low until translucent but not browned. Remove from heat and let cool.
In the bowl with the milk-soaked bread add the rest of the meatball ingredients including the cooked onions.
Mix it on low until the bread is broken apart and the meat is combined with the ingredients.
Using a meatballer, ice cream scoop or hands scoop them into balls about the size of a ping pong ball. Freeze on a cookie sheet if possible.
If cooking immediately, add the rest of the butter to the skillet and cook on medium-high on all sides for a total of 4 to 5 minutes.
Remove the meatballs from the pan and serve with preferred sauce.