Roasted Garlic Rosemary Baked Meatballs
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:
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Roasted Garlic Rosemary Baked Meatballs
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 lb ground pork
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup plain bread crumbs
- 1/2 medium yellow onion finely minced
- 1 bulb of roasted garlic
- 1 spring of fresh rosemary minced
- 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- Salt
- Fresh cracked black pepper
Addition/Topping:
- 4-5 fresh rosemary springs
- 6-8 raw garlic cloves
- 1-2 Tbsp olive oil for baking
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 40-45 minutes, depending on the size of garlic bulb. (Note: this step can be made the day before and you can just refrigerate roasted garlic in an air-tight food storage container until ready to use.)
Meatballs:
- Preheat oven to 350° and spread some olive oil in a casserole dish that's big enough to hold these meatballs comfortably.
- 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.
- Bake the meatballs for about 30-35 minutes. (Exact time will depend on how large the meatballs are. You can cut into one to check for doneness.)
Nutrition
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Can you make this recipe using ground turkey meat?
Sure, you can use ground turkey.
Lyuba,
these meatballs were awesome. Now I know why I should put pork with beef, it made the meatballs so juicy and tender. Thanks for this recipe.
These were absolutely delicious. My entire family loved it
I made this last night for my husband and I.
We both loved it! It was way too much for the both of us. My husband is not a big fan of leftovers. The next night I took the meatballs and mashed them up with a potato masher and made Hamburger Gravy. It was soooo good. I even had some meatballs left over that I put away in the freezer for another night. Not bad, three meals out of one recipe! Thanks!!
Yum! I am so glad it worked out so well for you!
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.
I am so glad you liked them, Cheryl!
Question: How are these served? With pasta and sauce? Over rice, plain?
Hi Fran, I find that they make a really good appetizer or a dinner with either rice or mashed potatoes.
How many meatballs? How many does this serve?
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.
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.
You are so welcome, Darla! So glad to hear you like it!
Can you prep and freeze these?
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/