Out of this world delicious baked meatballs that are very easy to prepare in the oven and perfect for weekend or a week night dinner. Juicy, tender meatballs made with beef and pork mixture, roasted garlic and rosemary inside and baked with more garlic and rosemary.
BAKED MEATBALLS
How great are meatballs?!
It’s one of our favorite things to eat and I love making them. It’s always so easy to prepare but results are so comforting and delicious. Changing up flavor combination is always fun too.
These meatballs are incredibly delicious and aroma that will fill your house will be intoxicating. Rosemary and roasted garlic is always a pleasing combination to all the senses. Your taste buds will definitely thank you for this dinner.
These beautiful meatballs would be great paired with some homemade mashed potatoes. What I like to do is wait for the meatballs to finish cooking before finishing the potatoes. I cook the potatoes and then set them aside.
When meatballs are ready, I add the cooked garlic (that was in between the meatballs) and some of the meat juice right into potatoes as I mash them. Just substitute the water from cooking potatoes for the juice from cooking meatballs. It will be an amazing meal!
More Meatball Recipes You Must Try:
Turkey Meatballs with Creamy Parmesan Sauce
Smothered Salisbury Steak Meatballs from Mrs Happy Homemaker
Grape Jelly and BBQ Meatballs from I Heart Naptime
Pineapple BBQ Sauce Glazed Meatballs from Diethood
Sweet and Spicy Bacon Wrapped Meatballs from The Gunny Sack
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Roasted Garlic Rosemary Baked Meatballs
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 lb ground pork
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 cup plain bread crumbs
- 1/2 medium yellow onion finely minced
- 1 medium bulb of roasted garlic
- 1 spring of fresh rosemary minced
- 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- Salt
- Fresh cracked black pepper
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- 4-5 fresh rosemary springs
- 6 raw garlic cloves
- 1-2 Tbsp olive oil for the baking dish
Instructions
- To roast garlic: Take loose skin off the garlic bulb and cut off the tip of the garlic cloves, still in the bulb. Rub garlic bulb with a little bit of olive oil and wrap it in aluminum foil. Preheat oven to 400, place wrapped garlic on a baking sheet and bake for 30-35 minutes, depending on the size of garlic bulb. (Note: this step can be made the day before and you can just refrigerate roasted garlic until ready to use.)
- Preheat oven to 350 and rub 2.5 (or 3) quart casserole dish with some olive oil.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine ground beef, ground pork, egg, bread crumbs, minced onion, minced rosemary, Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper. Carefully peel roasted garlic and take out the roasted garlic cloves. Add them to the bowl. Mix very well, until all ingredients are completely incorporated.
- Roll about 1.5 inch meatballs and place them snugly in the casserole dish.
- Stick individual, raw garlic cloves in between meatballs and add rosemary springs on top.
- Cover casserole dish with aluminum foil and bake for 35 minutes.
- Take off the foil and bake for another 10-15 minutes. (Since size of meatballs will vary, time might vary slightly.) You can cut into a meatball to check if it's done.
Notes
Tanya Walker says
I made these for my family after several days of turkey after Thanksgiving. They were a hit!!! All I heard at the table was smacking. There were leftovers and my mom text me she ate them with joy!! Great recipe. So juicy. (I did not have ground pork but ham from Thanksgiving. I chopped until meal-like) Superb!!!
LyubaB says
Hi, Tayna! I love hearing that everyone liked it! Thanks for letting me know! 🙂
Lisa says
I really want to make these but just a Little confused on the roasted garlic do you chop up the roast the garlic or add the whole clove if you add the whole clove not every meatball will have it. I am also going to use turkey chop meat.
LyubaB says
Hi, Lisa! When you roast the garlic it will get very soft so no need to chop it you can mix it in and it will break apart easily.
Gladys says
Can you suggest a substitute for bread crumbs as I would like to make these for keto diet ?
Thanks
Becky Parker says
Pork rind bread crumbs 🙌🏻
Maya says
I did these with ground turkey and ground deer….an enormous hit in my household!!
LyubaB says
Hi Maya,
I am so glad your family liked them!
Minda says
Can you prep and freeze these?
LyubaB says
Hi Minda,
Yes, you can easily freeze these! Here is a link where I go over how to freeze meatballs. Hope it helps! https://www.willcookforsmiles.com/how-to-freezing-meatballs/
Darla says
Absolutely delicious meatballs and the recipe has been added to the ‘rotation’ so to speak. My family loves garlic so I doubled the baked garlic and added some pepper flakes to add a little spice. Thank you so much for this great recipe.
LyubaB says
You are so welcome, Darla! So glad to hear you like it!
Floy says
How many meatballs? How many does this serve?
LyubaB says
It depends on the size of your meatballs and if your making dinner or using them as an appetizer but this recipe makes about 40 1-inch meatballs. So 2 meatballs per person it feeds ten and 4 meatballs per person will feed five. I hope that helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.
Fran says
Question: How are these served? With pasta and sauce? Over rice, plain?
LyubaB says
Hi Fran, I find that they make a really good appetizer or a dinner with either rice or mashed potatoes.
Cheryl says
Amazing flavor. I made some extra meatballs and fried them up just to check the seasoning…Very good! I make pretty good meatballs for my Sunday gravy but these are terrific for a change. I will definitely make these again and put them in my rotation.
LyubaB says
I am so glad you liked them, Cheryl!