Porcupine meatballs with chunky pepper tomato sauce

These easy oven meatballs have rice cooking right in the meatball mixture! A wonderful one dish oven meal!
by Emily Richards PH Ec.
290 cal Serves 6
Prep time 0h 15m
Cook time 0h 45m
Total time 1h 0m
Porcupine meatballs on a plate

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Step 1

    In a large bowl, mix together pork, beef, rice, onion, garlic, oregano and hot pepper flakes with your hands until well combined. Divide into 16 and roll each into a meatball.

  2. Step 2

    Place meatballs into lightly sprayed casserole dish. Sprinkle peppers over top and drizzle with pasta sauce. Shake pan to help coat meatballs. Cover with foil and bake in 375 F (190 C) oven for about 45 minutes or until rice is tender and meatballs are no longer pink inside.

  3. Step 3

    Sprinkle with parmesan and parsley, if desired to serve.

Nutritional information

Per serving (1 of 6)

Calories
290
Protein
21 g
Sodium
470 mg
Potassium
640
Total fat
12 g
Saturated fat
4.5 g
Cholesterol
55 mg
Carbohydrates
24 g
Fibre
2 g
Sugars
6 g
Added sugars
0 g

Recipe developed by Emily Richards, PH Ec. ©Heart and Stroke Foundation 2018.

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