Description
These Sweet & Tangy Make Ahead Meatballs are delicious, easy and perfect for parties! We have them for our main course or more often, as a crowd-pleasing appetizer.
Ingredients
Scale
For the Meatballs:
- 3 lbs lean ground beef
- 1.5 cups quick oats
- 2 eggs
- ¼ cup minced onion
- 3-4 cloves minced garlic
- ½ Tbsp. Lawry’s Seasoned Salt
For the Sauce:
- 1 1/2 cups ketchup
- 1 medium sized onion, finely chopped or minced
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup white vinegar
- 3 tbsp. worcestershire sauce
- 1 tsp. pepper (or to taste)
Instructions
For the Meatballs:
- Mix all ingredients together thoroughly with your hands – I don’t know any other way to get it all mixed up really good!
- Scoop out into balls – I use a my medium cookie scoop scooper thingy onto a cookie sheet. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes. Cool and freeze. It should make around 50-60 meatballs, if you make them the size I do.
For the Sauce:
- Whisk all the ingredients together. Pour over the frozen meatballs and cover with aluminum foil. Bake at 400°F for about 30 minutes, uncover and cook for about 15-20 more minutes. Then hurry and grab as many as you want before they’re gone!!
- *This is enough sauce for about 2-3 lbs. of meatballs…the perfect amount for the above meatballs recipe. This recipe can be cut in half or doubled if you have more or less meatballs.
- **You can also do this in the crockpot for 3-4 hours!
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 30 mins
- Category: Appetizer
- Method: Cooking
