Mini Italian Meatballs

[QSis]

Mini Italian Meatballs - 5 PointsPlus for 6 meatballs and sauce

1 pound regular old hamburger
1 egg
3 T. fresh parsley, chopped
1 T. Italian seasoning
3 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 large onion, minced
1 teas. salt
1/4 teas. red pepper flakes
2 cups tomato sauce

Mix everything together. Form 48 little meatballs.

Spoon some sauce on the bottom of a casserole dish. Lay the meatballs on top of the sauce, piling them up as needed.

Pour the rest of the sauce over the meatballs. Cover and bake at 350 for half hour.

Note: This can be lightened up by using more lean burger and/or ground turkey. But this is what I had.

The second picture is a plating of the meatballs and sauce poured over a Spinach and Cheese-Stuffed Portobello.

Lee

 

[MexicoKaren]

Wow, looks like a really luscious dinner, diet or not! Good for you, for being so inventive.

 

[Sass Muffin]

I like these Lee!
Very nice indeed!

 

[Mama]

Oh wow! Thanks Lee! I'll bet these would freeze in individual servings really well too!

 

[lilbopeep]

WOW!! I see meatballs in my near future! YUMMY

 

[VeraBlue]

Did you find them onion-y? That's an awful lot of raw onion for a pound of meat.

I had been doing WW online last year, but not any longer. What is the 'plus' at the end of the points?

 

[QSis]

Vera, yes, the onion was evident, but it was half of a large sweet onion, so it tasted good and felt good in the mouth. Plus, it stretched the burger mixture.

PointsPlus is the re-vamped WW system, which pushes members toward eating more vegetables and fruit (both, with only a few exceptions, are "free"), lean protein and high fiber. The old Points of many foods have changed in the new system.

Lee

 

[QSis]

Made these again, but with ground turkey.

Just as delicious and a lot lower fat!

Served over whole wheat linguini.

Lee

 

[Johnny West]

I love meat balls and your's look perfect. I but the 97% lean grass fed beef for most everything now. I bake rather than fry, too.