Chicken pieces are cooked in a rice, spice, and dried fruit combination after being coated with a butter and curry mixture.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 20 mins |
| Additional Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 45 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 cup dry bread crumbs
- 1 small finely chopped onion
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- 1 (1 ounce) package dry French onion soup mix
- ½ cup Italian dressing
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons olive oil, or as needed
Instructions
- Mix beef, bread crumbs, onion, garlic, and soup mix together in a large bowl with your hands until well blended; it will be quite dry. Mix in Italian dressing and eggs until thoroughly combined. Cover and refrigerate for 10 minutes.
- Pinch off just enough meat mixture to fit comfortably inside your palm, then roll it into ball. Repeat to form remaining meatballs.
- Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Working in batches if necessary and flipping often, cook meatballs in the hot skillet until browned and no longer pink in the centers, 8 to 10 minutes. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read at least 160 degrees F (71 degrees C).
- Ground turkey or chicken can be used instead of ground beef.
- You can make smaller or larger meatballs as desired, but note that larger meatballs tend to fall apart more than smaller ones.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 429 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 28 g |
| Cholesterol | 166 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 27 g |
| Saturated Fat | 7 g |
| Sodium | 1327 mg |
| Sugars | 4 g |
| Fat | 23 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
The ingredients sounds tasty as far as the onion soup and italian dressing. But as I was making it I thought 1 cup bread crumbs was a lot….and for us it was. I was disappointed in the final product of the meatball . I made homemade rolls and used my homemade sauce from summer tomatoes for the sandwiches. But that did not help us enough. I could try again but cutting the bread crumbs at least in half.
I had a difficult time keeping them together, maybe too many eggs and dressing? We also thought there were too many competing flavors, again maybe too much dressing? I really wanted to like this but it just wasn’t to our liking.
Good recipe although maybe a little dry due to the one cup of bread crumbs. Next time I’ll probably add a little less. Otherwise made about 20 meatballs that went a long way.
These were delicious! I thought they might have too much seasoning but it ended out tasting perfect for my family’s taste (we like a lot of seasoning). I had a little bit of trouble keeping some of them together but I probably should have worked in smaller batches (I cooked all at the same time). I served mine with egg noodles and brown gravy.