Oven Baked Meatballs Parmesan

Oven Baked Meatballs Parmesan, an easy homemade meatball recipe that's cheesy and saucy, will warm you up at dinner tonight! 

Oven Baked Meatballs Recipe

Meatballs Parmesan is a cheesy, saucy, beefy and versatile dish. Make it one night and serve on long rolls as a meatball parmesan hero.

Next time serve the meatballs with sauce over a bowl of pasta or zucchini noodles.

Or serve the homemade meatballs with a salad and garlic bread and call it dinner!

Any way you serve it you're going to love this baked meatball parmesan recipe!

Just shape the ground beef meatballs, smother them with sauce and let them bake themselves in the oven.

Not only is this a versatile recipe, you'll have time to kick up your feet while it cooks itself.

So darn easy you'll want to make this simple baked meatballs with parmesan cheese and breadcrumbs recipe every night of the week!

And if you love your meatballs with spaghetti you’ll want to try our One Pot Spaghetti and Meatballs.  It’s an easy recipe that cooks pasta and homemade meatballs together in a delicious tomato sauce all in one skillet.

So heat up the oven because tonight’s a good night for cooking meatballs in oven.

Serve over pasta or zucchini noodles, as a meatball hero or just on its own with a salad, the choice is yours!

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How to make oven baked meatballs

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• Preheat your oven to 400F.
• Combine ground beef, egg, breadcrumbs. 2 Tbs. fresh basil, garlic and kosher salt in a bowl.
• Shape meatball mixture into 16 meatballs.
• In a 1 1/2-quart baking dish, arrange meatballs in a single layer.
• Combine diced tomatoes (drained), tomato sauce and sugar in another bowl and pour sauce over the meatballs.
• Bake meatballs for 35 minutes.
• Arrange sliced fresh mozzarella on top of meatballs.
• Cook another 5-10 minutes or until cheese is melted and the meatballs are cooked through.

Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips

• Spice it up and use diced tomatoes with green chiles
• These meatballs are delicious when served as a meatball parmesan sub

Substitutions

• Substitute ground turkey for the ground beef
• Use ground chicken in place of the ground beef
• Save time and use your favorite jarred marinara sauce in place of the tomato sauce and diced tomatoes

Ingredients for baked meatball casserole 

• ground beef
• egg
• seasoned breadcrumbs
• Parmesan cheese
• fresh basil
• garlic
• kosher salt
• diced tomatoes with basil, garlic & oregano
• tomato sauce
• sugar
• fresh mozzarella

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Baked Meatballs Parmesan

Baked Meatballs Parmesan is a cheesy, saucy, beefy recipe that will warm you up tonight! Serve over pasta or zucchini noodles, on a long roll as a meatball hero or just on it's own with a salad! 

Course Main Course

Cuisine Italian

Keyword baked meatballs parmesan, meatballs parmesan

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 45 minutes

Total Time 55 minutes

Servings 4

Calories 578kcal

Author Gwynn Galvin

Ingredients

• 1 lb. ground beef
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup seasoned breadcrumbs
• 1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
• 2 Tbs. chopped fresh basil + additional basil leaves for garnish
• 1 clove garlic , minced
• 1/2 tsp. kosher salt
• 1 can (14.5 ounces) diced tomatoes with basil, garlic & oregano , drained
• 1 can (8 ounces) tomato sauce
• 2 tsp. sugar
• 8 slices fresh mozzarella , 8 ounces

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 400F.
• In bowl combine ground beef, egg, breadcrumbs, Parmesan, 2 Tbs. fresh basil, garlic and kosher salt.
• Shape into 16 meatballs and arrange in single layer in a 1 1/2 quart baking dish.
• In another bowl combine diced tomatoes (drained), tomato sauce and sugar. Pour over meatballs.
• Bake 35 minutes.
• Top with sliced fresh mozzarella and cook additional 5-10 minutes or until meatballs are cooked through and cheese is melted.
• Top with additional fresh basil leaves.

Notes

Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips:

• Make recipe with ground turkey
• Make recipe with ground chicken

Nutrition

Calories: 578kcal | Carbohydrates: 15g | Protein: 39g | Fat: 40g | Saturated Fat: 18g | Cholesterol: 174mg | Sodium: 1015mg | Potassium: 409mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 596IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 432mg | Iron: 3mg