(almost) Grandma Alta's Meatballs--aka My Favorite Meatball

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 lbs ground beef
• 1 cup breadcrumbs (gf work great)
• 1/4 cup water
• 2 eggs
• 1 onion, grated
• salt
• pepper
• 1 (12 ounce) bottle chili sauce
• 1 (16 ounce) can whole berry cranberry sauce
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice

Recipe

• 1 "combine first 5 ingredients, season with salt and pepper and chill (very important).
• 2 while this is chilling, combine the last 4 ingredients in a non-reactive pot. simmer.
• 3 form meat mixture into balls and lay out in a 9x13 baking dish (any size meatball should work). you don't need to bake them or brown them! they hold together well, as long as they chill first.
• 4 you can now carefully add the meatballs to your sauce and simmer for 1 hour or you can pour the sauce over the meatballs, cover them with foil, and bake 1 hour at 325°f.
• 5 love you, mom".