| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 50 min |
| Prep: | 25 min |
| Cook: | 25 min |
| Yield: | 12 sandwiches |
Ingredients
- 2 pounds ground chuck or ground beef
- 1/2 cup panko or other breadcrumbs
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/2 medium onion, diced
- 1 large jar marinara sauce
- 12 dinner rolls or slider rolls
- 2 cups grated mozzarella
Instructions
- Mix the meat with the breadcrumbs, milk, garlic, salt and pepper, and knead the mixture together with you hands. Roll into heaping tablespoon-sized rolls.
- Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the onions and cook for 1 minute. Add the meatballs between the onions and brown for 1 minute. (You might have to do this in two batches, depending on the size of your skillet.)
- Pour in the jar of marinara and shake the skillet gently to mix. Put on a lid and allow to simmer for 20 minutes.
- When ready to serve, cut each dinner roll in half. Place a handful of grated mozzarella on the top and bottom of each roll. Spoon a meatball with the sauce onto the bottom bun; top with the top bun. Serve immediately!
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 16 servings |
| Calories | 291 |
| Total Fat | 10 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Carbohydrates | 29 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Sugar | 4 g |
| Protein | 21 g |
| Cholesterol | 48 mg |
| Sodium | 550 mg |
Reviews
Scrumptious!!!
Delicious
Nice video
These are great! I browned all the sides and cooked for about 10 minutes before I added the marinara. Served on king Hawaiian sub rolls, definitely a keeper.
These are fantastic – quick, easy, delicious, and ingredients are usually on hand. My husband and teenage sons love them. I have no idea why someone would give them a low rating.
This is my goto recipe for quick easy meatballs. If you make it with an all natural jar of sauce you will love it. I substitute the beef for chicken or turkey and it never fails! Easy and delicious.
Made these last night for dinner. Only change I made was adding the onions to the meatball mixture instead of to the sauce. Everyone loved them and the leftovers for lunch today were even better.
I am not sure why some reviewers said meatballs were bland. The onions in the sauce made this super flavorful. I had to double my recipe and I had huge garlic cloves so I did have a lot of garlic in the meatballs. Everyone loved them and I thought it was super easy and fun to make.
It was good but could use more seasoning ingredients. Next time I will kick mine up a notch.
The idea of a quick meatball sandwich is great, but I think the recipe needs a lot more so I added one egg, 1tbsp of ketchup, chopped parsley, parmesian cheese to the meatball and I think that brought it home. I also topped the meatballs with shredded motzarella cheese and fresh basil.