Baked Italian Ground Beef Meatballs
Baked Italian Ground Beef Meatballs are on the menu, and these homemade meatballs are the perfect for lunch, simple weeknight dinner and can also be elevated for a weekend dinner with friends. For this recipe, I used some lean ground beef but you can easily use an alternative. You can use ground turkey, hot Italian sausage, sweet Italian sausage or ground pork.
Ingredients
- 1 onion diced
- 3 garlic cloves minced
- 2 tbsp nutritional yeast (can also use grated parmesan)
- 2 tbsp italian style bread crumbs (panko bread crumbs are perfect too)
- 2 tsp balsamic vinegar
- 1 tsp soy sauce
- 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- pinch salt & pepper to taste
- 1/3 cup fresh parsley chopped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400° F.
- In a large mixing bowl, add the ground beef and break up as much as possible with a wooden spoon.
- Add in the diced onion, minced garlic, nutritional yeast, bread crumbs, balsamic vinegar, soy sauce, red pepper flakes, olive oil, onion powder, garlic powder, salt, pepper and fresh parsley.
- Mix to get all of the ingredient well combined.
- Using your hands or a ice cream scoop, shape the mixture into 6 large meatballs or 12 smaller ones.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes, until firm and meatballs start to brown.