Quick & Easy Cheesy Homemade Meatballs
The best quick & easy authentic Italian meatball recipe, made healthy with beef, Italian breadcrumbs, and seasonings and baked in the oven. Serve with your favorite spaghetti sauce.
Equipment
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup Italian bread crumbs we used gluten-free, but any Italian flavored breadcrumbs will be fine
- ½ cup low fat milk
- 1 pound 93% lean ground beef could also use ground pork, ground turkey, or a mixture of several ground meats
- 1 large egg
- ⅓ cup Parmesan cheese grated (the real cheese, not the powdery stuff in the can)
- 1 ½ teaspoon kosher salt if using table salt, reduce to 1 teaspoon
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- 3 cloves garlic use larger cloves if possible or increase to 4-5 cloves if they are small
- ½ cup Italian parsely roughly chopped
- 1 tablespoons olive oil
- spaghetti sauce use the brand with the least amount of added sugar
- mozzarella cheese shredded
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF.
- Whisk together the bread crumbs and milk until the mixture is like a slurry.
- Combine the beef with the egg, Parmesan, salt, pepper, garlic, parsley, and bread crumb mixture in a large bowl until well blended.
- Use a small scoop to form 18 golf ball size meatballs. Place meatballs on a baking sheet with a rim around the edge (to catch any fluid that comes out during baking).
- Bake the meatballs for 25 minutes or until the centers are no longer pink.
- Arrange meatballs on a plate, pour ½ cup of sauce overtop, and sprinkle with mozzarella cheese.
Notes
For my bariatric serving, I ate 5 meatballs with ½ cup low sugar sauce and ½ ounce of mozzarella cheese. I also had cauliflower on the side.
If you use a small scoop as I have recommended, the meatballs will be about 1 oz each. We ate them with Portobello, Kale, and Sausage spaghetti sauce and cauliflower on the side, but I think they would even better with spaghetti or zucchini noodles (made with a spiralizer).
I also recommend you bake the meatballs on a baking sheet with a rim, to catch any juices that come out of the beef during cooking.
Nutrition
Calories: 75kcal | Carbohydrates: 2g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 28mg | Sodium: 277mg | Potassium: 114mg | Fiber: 0.2g | Sugar: 0.5g | Vitamin A: 187IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 42mg | Iron: 1mg
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