Baked Porcupine Meatballs
These flavorful meatballs are cooked with rice in a delicious sauce to create the "prickly porcupine" appearance that my kids love. The name may be silly but this dish serves up serious flavor.
Ingredients
- 1 lb 80/20 ground beef
- ½ cup uncooked white rice, washed and rinsed I don't recommend using brown rice in this recipe.
- ½ onion Grated using a grater or diced. I usually grate the onion until the pieces are too small to grate and then I finely dice the rest.
- ¾ teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ tablespoon dried parsley optional
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- 1 egg beaten
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 15 ounce can tomato sauce Fire roasted is excellent in this recipe.
- ½ cup ketchup
- ½ cup chicken broth or water
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine the ground beef, uncooked white rice, onion, garlic powder, parsley, salt, pepper and egg in a large bowl and mix with your hands until combined.
- Form meatballs and place them in a 9x13 glass baking dish.
- Combine the tomato sauce, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce and broth or water in a separate bowl and stir until combined.
- Pour the tomato sauce mixture over the meatballs. Cover with foil and seal tightly. This is an important step to ensure the rice is cooked thoroughly. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour or until the rice is cooked. If the rice isn't cooked, place it back in the oven, cover and continue to cook until it's soft.
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