BBQ Glazed Meatballs

Today I’m Making… BBQ Glazed Meatballs

The NFL is back this week, my husbands favorite time of year. The season starting gives me a great opportunity to try out some new ‘party’ foods. This week my brother and his girlfriend came over so I had more guinea pigs to try things out on. I am going to try and make something ever week of the season that we stay in to watch the game. Since it was the first week I made three new recipes… two of which turned out really well (BBQ meatballs and Cashew Broccoli), the other was just okay (German Potato Salad). I’ll start off with the meatballs. I have a history of making really terrible meatballs so I was skeptical, but how are you going to get better if you don’t try? These turned out excellent and would be a really great passed appetizer/ party food.

The Recipe:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. In a large bowl mix:

· 1 ½ pounds ground beef

· 1 egg, beaten

· 1 cup quick cook oatmeal- I used 5 minute Quaker oats

· 6 ½ ounces of evaporated milk (I had a 12 ounce can so I just eyeballed about ½)

· Pinch of Salt

· A bit of pepper- maybe ¼ tsp

· ½ tsp garlic powder

· 1 tablespoon of chili powder

· ½ cup of chopped onion (make sure the pieces are small or it will be hard to make the meatballs round)

3. Kneed all the ingredients together… I use my hands but make sure to take off your rings or they get gross and you are picking raw meat out of your jewelry.

4. Roll the meat into meatball sized balls- 1 ½ inches I would say… it makes a lot but they are tasty! Put them on an oiled cookie sheet.

5. Cover them in BBQ sauce. I could have made my own but I didn’t. I used the bottled stuff- make sure it's the sweet stuff not vinegar based.

6. Bake for an hour.

Review:

These are tasty; I wouldn’t change much about them. I do have to warn you that they stuck to the pan, hopefully my dish soap acts like it does in the commercials and they will just wipe clean (not likely), but the meatballs are well worth whatever effort is required in cleanup.