Great balls of fun! Here’s a meatball rolling in flavor.
Porcupine Meatballs
- Prep Time 15 min
- Total 1 hr 10 min
- Servings 10
- Ingredients 8
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups Multi-Bran Chex™ cereal
- 1 lb lean (at least 80%) ground beef
- 2/3 cup uncooked parboiled (converted) rice
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 package (1 oz) onion soup mix
- 1 egg
- 1 cup water
- 2 cans (11 1/2 oz each) tomato juice (3 cups)
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 425°F. Crush cereal. (To easily crush cereal, place in plastic bag or between sheets of waxed paper, and crush with rolling pin.) In large bowl, mix crushed cereal, beef, rice, milk, dry soup mix and egg. Using wet hands, shape mixture into 30 meatballs. Place in ungreased 13x9-inch baking dish or 3-quart casserole.
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Step2Pour water and tomato juice over meatballs; stir gently.
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Step3Cover and bake 50 to 55 minutes or until rice is tender and beef is no longer pink in center and juice is clear.
Nutrition
200
Calories
6g
Total Fat
11g
Protein
24g
Total Carbohydrate
6g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 200
- Calories from Fat
- 60
- Total Fat
- 6g
- 10%
- Saturated Fat
- 2 1/2g
- 11%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 50mg
- 16%
- Sodium
- 540mg
- 22%
- Potassium
- 360mg
- 10%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 24g
- 8%
- Dietary Fiber
- 2g
- 8%
- Sugars
- 6g
- Protein
- 11g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 10%
- 10%
- Vitamin C
- 15%
- 15%
- Calcium
- 6%
- 6%
- Iron
- 30%
- 30%
Exchanges:
1 1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 0 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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