These super easy Oven Baked Meatballs are delicious and perfect for your next busy weeknight dinner or meal prep for the week! An easy recipe for making cooked meatballs with real, basic ingredients. They are the best meatballs and perfect for using to make spaghetti and meatballs, meatball sandwiches, or just serve as an appetizer with some marinara sauce!
Quick & Easy Oven Baked Meatballs
An easy and delicious oven-baked meatball recipe that is so versatile and perfect for meal-prep! These flavor-packed baked meatballs in the oven are so handy to have around! We love making a batch over the weekend to have during the week. Serve with homemade marinara sauce, Alfredo sauce, or any other sauce you want over some spaghetti noodles (spaghetti squash works too!) for your next delicious meal!
Have you ever tried making meatballs with ground chicken? Try our easy baked chicken meatballs!!
What You Will Need
- ground beef – we like to find a nice lean ground beef at our local grocery store or butcher shop. Option to sub with ground turkey, if you want.
- almond flour & egg – the binding ingredients in this recipe that hold everything together!
- onion powder, garlic powder, dried basil, kosher salt, & ground black pepper – a simple combination of seasonings that bring so much great flavor.
How To Make Oven Baked Meatballs
To start this easy baked meatball recipe, place all of the meatball ingredients in a large bowl.
Use a large wooden spoon or your hands to mix all of the ingredients together. Then remove about 1 tablespoon of the meat mixture at a time and roll into a ball. Place all of the raw meatballs in a single layer on a sheet pan with parchment paper.
Pro tip: for best results, we like to use a large cookie scoop or ice cream scoop for this process to keep the size of the meatballs uniform.
Bake the meatballs at 375 degrees F for about 24 minutes or until cooked through.
How To Serve Oven Baked Meatballs
You can easily use this oven baked meatball recipe to have meatballs on hand for any of your favorite recipes! Our whole family loves to enjoy these homemade meatballs with an easy pasta sauce over our favorite pasta noodles. Or we use them in our Meatballs & Rice recipe, toss them in BBQ sauce, or just toss them in the freezer for adding to a future meal.
Made this recipe and loved it?! We would love it if you would take a minute and leave a star rating and review – it is also helpful if you made any substitutions or changes to the recipe to share that as well. THANK YOU!
Don’t forget to check out my Instagram account for some behind-the-scenes action! Or give me a follow on Facebook or see what I am pinning on Pinterest!
Other Meatball Recipes You Might Like
Oven Baked Meatballs
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 24 minutes
- Total Time: 44 minutes
- Yield: 20 meatballs 1x
- Category: Dinner
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: American
Description
Oven Baked Meatballs – a seriously delicious baked meatballs recipe that is perfect for meal prep!! Toss in your favorite sauce and dinner is ready!
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 pound ground beef
- 1/4 cup almond flour
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F and prepare a parchment-lined baking sheet.
- Combine all ingredients in medium mixing bowl and mix thoroughly (using your hands is usually the easiest).
- Take a heaping tablespoon of the meatball mixture and use your hands to roll it into a meatball. Continue until all the meat is used (you should have around 20 meatballs).
- Place meatballs on the prepared baking sheet, approximately 1/2 – 1 inch apart.
- Sprinkle the tops lightly with salt and pepper.
- Cook for 24 minutes or until cooked through and golden brown.
- Serve any way you want – we love them on spaghetti noodles with marinara sauce!
Notes
- Almond flour: option to substitute this with bread crumbs or panko crumbs.
- Baking sheet: you can also cook them in a mini muffin tin cups.
- Storage: leftover meatballs can be placed in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days.
- Freezing: remove from oven and let cool completely. Then, set cooled meatballs on clean baking sheet and place in the freezer for at least an hour. Then place frozen meatballs in a storage bag (the silicone Stasher Bags work well) and keep frozen up to 3 months.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 6oz
- Calories: 214
- Sugar: 0.3 g
- Sodium: 352.3 mg
- Fat: 6 g
- Carbohydrates: 1.8 g
- Protein: 32 g
- Cholesterol: 118.6 mg
Scott says
Nutrition: I did this on my fitness pal with 93/7 beef.
Per Ball:
Calories 57
Fat: 2.8g
Protein:7.3g
Carb: .3g
Sodium:99.7mg
Cholesterol:9.3g
I figured those are the big ones people usually ask about. Cheers!
Savanah says
Do you suggest using less flour if I’m only using a pound of beef?
Erin says
Hi Savanah – sure you could reduce it to just a little below a 1/4 cup – but even if you still use a 1/4 cup you should be fine!
Juli says
Yum! I’m always struggling during Whole 30 for what yo sub for almond flour. My daughter is allergic to all tree nuts. Mama only makes one dinner per night. 🤣
Erin says
Hi Juli – I would try using cassava flour as an almond flour sub!
Zach says
Made these last night because I wanted something healthier for my spaghetti than all the other recipes I was seeing and I LOVED them!!! 10 out of 10 will be making again! I didn’t have onion or garlic powder and of course forgot it while I was at the store, but I just used fresh. Still worked! Crazy delicious!!!
Erin says
So glad you enjoyed these, Zach! Thanks for coming back to leave a review!
Collette says
These meatballs were so easy to make. I used a combination of beef and pork because it is what I had on hand. They turned out perfectly. I will make them again!
Erin says
So happy to hear that, Collette! And I love the combo of beef and pork! Thanks for taking the time to leave a review + feedback – I really appreciate it!
Patty says
First day of W30. This is my second round so I definitely feel less apprehensive and more excited. New recipe for me and it is fantastic! Used Rao’s marinara for the sauce and made W30 mashed potatoes. This will be in regular rotation.
Erin says
So happy to hear that, Patty!! Cheering you on during round 2! You got this! 🙂
Maura. says
Hi I can’t see any of the recipes. I can only see ads. Is there something I need to click or subscribe to see the recipes? Thanks
Erin says
This should be fixed! A small backend glitch! Thanks for your patience!