Cream Meatballs

These are so tasty and easy to make and they are different than the usual meatball recipes floating around.  They are meaty and delicious just as meatballs, and even better with the cream sauce and mushrooms over them.  I have heard a German friend talk of using pretty much the same ingredients to make their "German" hamburgers, so maybe that is the origin of this type of meatball.  While doing the Atkins diet, I found it very handy to take to work for my lunch.  I would just throw the ground beef, seasonings, an egg, and a little bread crumbs, not really measuring anything, into a zipper bag and take to work where I would later mish the ingredients in the bag then put mini hamburgers on a small electric grill like a George Foreman grill and cook for a few minutes and have a really delicious and filling, low carb lunch.


Cream Meatballs

2 lb. ground beef
½ lb. ground veal (too mean, I use all gr. Beef)
1 ½ cup soft bread crumbs (my easy way is to kind of wad the soft bread slices up and run them over the hand grater-they come out perfect.
½ cup minced onion
1 egg
¼ cup chopped parsley, less if dried, or to taste
1 ½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon ginger or little more
Dash of pepper and nutmeg
Mix thoroughly and shape into small balls-brown in small amount of oil or fat.  Drain on paper towels.

(They are good just like this or you can make small burgers.  I often threw ground Beef into a ziplock bag along with some salt, pepper, ginger, egg, onion, or, onion powder and a little bit of bread crumbs and took it to work, mixed it up in the bag, made mini burgers and cooked them on a little foreman grill right at my desk!  But, be sure and should try the cream sauce on the meatballs.  Really good, like a nice stroganoff).

Cream sauce

Add to meat drippings in skillet:
1 can condensed cream of mushroom soup
1 cup sour cream
1 can (3 oz.) chopped mushrooms
2 Tablespoons catsup
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce

Heat through-add meatballs and serve.  You can also serve with or over boiled potatoes or noodles or rice if you wish. Yummy!