Cranberry Sauce Meatballs
Description
Take your Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner to new heights with these easy, savory, sweet, and spicy cranberry sauce meatballs, made with ground beef and French-fried onions.
Ingredients
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2 large eggs
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2 pounds ground beef
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1/2 cup milk
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1 small onion, minced
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1 teaspoon salt
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1 cup crushed French-fried onions (such as French's®)
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1 (14 ounce) can jellied cranberry sauce (such as Ocean Spray®)
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1 (12 ounce) bottle chili sauce (such as Heinz®)
Directions
1
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2
Beat eggs in a mixing bowl. Add beef, milk, onion, and salt; mix well. Sprinkle in crumbled fried onions and mix until evenly combined.
3
Form the mixture into 40 meatballs and place into a 9x13-inch and 9x9-inch baking dish; set aside.
4
Blend cranberry sauce and chili sauce together in a bowl with an electric hand mixer.
5
Pour 2/3 of the sauce mixture over the meatballs. Brush the remaining sauce over to completely cover the meatballs.
6
Bake in the preheated oven until meatballs are browned and no longer pink in the centers, about 1 hour.