Family Secret Meatballs and Sauce

My husband would eat this for dinner every night if I would let him. It took his family 10 years of marriage to share this secret recipe with me (apparently, I wasn't family yet), so now I'm sharing it with the world. Hope you like it!

• Preparation Time: 15 mins
• Cooking Time: 1 hr 30 mins
• Total Time: 1 hr 45 mins
• Calories: 319 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 cup milk
• ¾ cup rolled oats
• 1 ½ teaspoons salt
• 3 tablespoons white sugar
• ¾ cup water
• ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
• 2 pounds ground beef
• 3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
• 1 ½ cups ketchup
• 6 tablespoons chopped sweet onion (such as a Walla Walla)
• 4 ½ tablespoons chopped sweet onion (such as a Walla Walla)
• 4 ½ tablespoons apple cider vinegar

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.

Step 2

Mix together the ground beef, rolled oats, 6 tablespoons of sweet onion, milk, salt, and black pepper until thoroughly combined. Roll the mixture into 2-inch meatballs, and place meatballs into the prepared baking dish.

Step 3

In a bowl, mix the ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, sugar, 4 1/2 tablespoons of sweet onion, apple cider vinegar, and water until the sugar has dissolved, and pour the sauce evenly over the meatballs.

Step 4

Bake the meatballs and sauce in the preheated oven until the sauce is bubbling and thickened and the meatballs are no longer pink inside, about 1 1/2 hours. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center of a meatball should read at least 160 degrees F (70 degrees C).