When we have family reunions, I face the uncertainty of not knowing what to make every time. Thanks, to these French Onion Meatballs, I don’t worry any longer! We traditionally have lots of ground beef in our house since we source our beef directly from farmer friends of ours! These meatballs are easy, delicious, and are sure to be the hit of the reunion when you take them!
Headed to a Reunion
One of my biggest pet peeves is going to a reunion or potluck and a family of 6 shows up with a bag of chips! Since 3 of us would be attending the reunion, I knew I wanted to take more than one dish of food! So, I mixed up a batch of what we call Steve’s corn (and T’s favorite side dish), but was also featured over a year ago by sweet Amy! Then, I whipped up a batch of these meatballs. I had no recipe and was completely winging it and using ingredients that I had in my cupboards!
To say they were a hit at the reunion would be an understatement. Of course, hurrying as I was, no pictures were taken that day, so I had to remake them and made T “suffer” through eating them on noodles! They were a hit again! Without further ado, French Onion Meatballs!
The Recipe
French Onion Meatballs
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 lb ground pork
- 3/4 cup bread crumbs
- 2 eggs
- 2/3 cup milk
- 1 packet dry onion soup mix
- 1 can French Onion Condensed Soup
- 1 packet Classic Brown Gravy Mix
Instructions
- Thoroughly combine all the ingredients except for the condensed soup & gravy mix.
- Form meat mixture into meatballs.
- In a hot pan, add 1T olive oil and brown each meatball to brown on both sides. Remove them from the pan once browned.
- In a small saucepan, make the gravy according to the directions on the package and when whisk in the can of condensed soup. Heat to bubbling.
- Transfer the meatballs to a baking dish or crock pot. Pour gravy mixture over all.
- Bake at 350 for at least 20 minutes, uncovered.
- Serve over noodles, masked potatoes, or rice.
Cooks Tips
- I throw my packet of dry onion soup mix into my bullet blender and grind it up to a powder before putting it in my meat. This avoids having large pieces of dried onions and not having it evenly dispersed.
- This makes quite a few meatballs (at least 24, if I remember correctly). I fried them all up and then placed 1/2 – 2/3 of them in a container to put in the freezer. The remaining was still more than enough for T and I!
- These can also be finished in a crockpot for 1.5 hours on medium heat.
Well, there you have it! French Onion Meatballs. Give them a try and let me know what you think!
Cooking Tip: Typically I will throw 2-3 packets of dry onion soup mix in my bullet, at a time, and grind to a powder, and then place in a Tupperware container for future use. Then, if I want to use it to season something, I can just throw the desired amount in my recipe instead of using an entire packet (which can be over powering at times!)
Well I just happen to have quite a bit of ground beef in my freezer so you can bet these are going on my menu. Great tip about the onion soup, btw. I will try that!
Thanks! I hope you guys like them!
I never thought of adding french onion soup to them, but it sounds really good!
Thank you! We add onion soup to a lot of things!
I think these sound delicious Katy! I’ll have to try these soon. How do you think they’d work served on a kaiser roll as a tractor friendly sandwich? As you know, any meal I make has to be tractor friendly at least for another week or so 🙂 Thanks for linking up this month to the Country Fair Blog Party!
I think they would work great! Just don’t use too much of the gravy!
YUM! These sound great! We used to use a package of onion soup mix in our crock pot roast.
That’s such a good idea!!
These look fantastic! I love onion soup mix for seasoning and this recipe gives me another reason to use it.
Laurie
Visiting from the Country Fair Blog Party
I hope you like them! Thanks for stopping by!
I just love the french onion twist on these! Elevates things right there! I love that for a dinner meal! Thanks for sharing it on our Link party @ Celebrate365
These are on our meal plan for next week! They are popular!!