Dad’s Little Meatballs
Ingredients
Meatballs
- 2 lb ground beef
- 1 cup bread crumbs
- 1 onion, small, minced
- ½ cup milk
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 tspn salt
- ¼ tspn pepper
Sauce
- ⅔ cuo brown sugar, packed
- ¼ cup chili sauce
- 3 tbspn soy sauce
- 3 tbspn vinegar
- 2 tbspn ketchup
- 1½ tspn ginger
- ½ tspn Worcestershire sauce
- 1½ cup water
For cooking meatballs
- ½ cup butter
Instructions
Meatballs
- In a large mixing bowl, add the ground beef, bread crumbs, onion, milk, eggs, salt, pepper. Mix well
- Form into small balls, approximately 1 inch in diameter.
- Melt the butter in a frying pan. Add the meatballs to the butter, rotating to get each side golden brown. When fully cooked, remove from the pan and let drain on a paper towel.
Sauce
- In a large saucepan, mix all sauce ingredients together. Bring sauce to a boil.
- Add prepared meatballs to the pot with the sauce. Simmer about 10 minutes.
- Let meatballs sit as the sauce cools down off from the heat. Can be prepared 1-2 days in advance.
Notes
Barbara Cook’s recipe. Made at Christmas and New Year’s.