what's cooking wednesday - baked italian style meatballs

I really do enjoy spaghetti and meatballs, but we rarely have it since I find meatballs such a pain in the ass to make. Also I am too cheap to shell out almost ten bucks for the premade frozen ones when it's something I can so easily make myself for a fraction of the cost, but then see item number one. It's a vicious circle. Then I stumbled upon this recipe in my Kraft What's Cooking magazine and it seemed pretty easy.

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Baked Italian Style Meatballs

1 pkg Stove Top Stuffing for chicken
2 lbs lean ground beef
1 1/4 cups of water
2 eggs lightly beaten
2 cloves of garlic, minced
1/3 cup grated parmesan cheese

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place all ingredients in a large bowl and mix until well blended.

Shape 24 meatballs, using 1/4 cup of the meat mixture for each meatball. Place in a single layer on a foil lined baking sheet.

Bake 20 minutes or until cooked through. Serve with your favourite sauce and pasta.

Recipe Notes: So sure, these are some huge meatballs, but they stay nice and moist. Also, they retain their round shape much nicer than my old tiny pan fried meatballs. The stuffing gives these a nice flavour and I love that I just pop them in the oven and forget about them. I would actually be tempted to make a couple of batches and freeze them (in their raw state) so they're handy to just pop in the oven for a quick meal. I made these tonight for tomorrow's dinner so I'll let you know if they pass the "kid test".




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What's cooking Wednesday was born out of a desire to get out of that what's for dinner rut. Playing is easy, on Wednesday post a recipe that has been tried and tested by you and then pop over here and add your name to the Mr. Linky. When entering your name also add the name of the recipe in brackets and make sure you link to your What's Cooking Wednesday post and not just your blog's front page. And don't forget to link back here, the home of What's Cooking Wednesday.

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