All Purpose Freezer Meatballs

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 1 lb fine ground beef (at least 85%. even better grind your own.)
• 1 medium yellow onion, cut to fit through the grinder
• 1/2 cup panko breadcrumbs or 1/2 cup fine unseasoned breadcrumbs (plus some to roll them in)
• 1 small egg
• 1 teaspoon powdered ginger
• 1 teaspoon allspice
• 1 tablespoon old fashioned tasty and smelly blackstrap/sulphered molasses
• salt, to taste as you would a meat loaf.

Recipe

• 1 i mix the panko ginger allspice salt and egg in a small bowl.
• 2 ginger, allspice, and molasses may and likely should be increased run it all, with the beef, through the fine die on your food grinder.
• 3 if you do not have a grinder, purchase the beef fine grind, at least twice through the grinder.
• 4 and chop the onion fine in your food processor.
• 5 i'm looking here for a very dense end product.
• 6 mix well by hand.
• 7 form into no-larger-than-pingpong ball size.
• 8 roll lightly in that excess panko or bread crumbs i forgot to tell you to put in a plate.
• 9 place on a grill rack, hopefully fine grate enough so they don't fall through.
• 10 oven at 400 (preheat).
• 11 bake about 20 min or until that instant thermometer reads 145+.
• 12 let them cool completely and put what you're not going to use now in a freezer bag.
• 13 that extra roll in panko keeps them loose in the bag.
• 14 for use?
• 15 put the balls and some (jarred) pasta sauce, gravy, whatever you fancy in the microwave to heat.
• 16 place in/on bun, spaghetti, hash browned or mashed potatoes, rice, or whatever the spirit moves you to.
• 17 it's a handy meal-in-a-hurry.
• 18 enjoy and let me know any other uses you can find.
• 19 t.