These low point oven-baked meatballs are my favorite method for cooking meatballs. Easy cleanup and no grease splatter from frying them in the pan! My meatballs use lean ground beef with simple ingredients that are easily found in your pantry. Boil some noodles, make my marinara sauce recipe along with my meatballs, and dinner is served.
For evenly sized meatballs use a medium cookie scoop that is about two tablespoons in size. Use a food processor to mince the onions really fine or combine everything in that. I just used a bowl and my hands to mix all the meatball ingredients together.
Marinara Sauce
Since this blog post has been written, I now have my very own Low Point Marinara Sauce recipe to go with these meatballs. Store-bought marinara sauce has a lot of extra sodium in it that is not necessary and olive oil.
Low Point Marinara Sauce Recipe
Protein:
This recipe uses lean ground beef. I like to use either 93% of 96%. You can find lean ground beef at most local grocery stores. Aldi and Wal-Mart will have the 96% lean ground beef.
If you don’t want to use ground beef try a combo of ground turkey and chicken.
For gluten-free meatballs use gluten-free panko bread crumbs.
Like a little heat? Add some crushed red pepper flakes.
How to Make Low Point Meatballs
- Preheat oven to 400ºF. Spray a large cookie sheet with cooking spray.
- Spray a small saucepan with cooking spray, and cook the onions until they are soft and tender. Let them cool.
- In a medium-sized bowl, mix together onion, bread crumbs, garlic, egg, cheese, salt, pepper, and parsley in a large mixing bowl.
- Add in ground beef and mix gently until combined. Do not overwork. Form into 1-inch balls using a cookie scoop or your hands, and place on prepared cookie sheet.
- Bake in preheated oven for 15-20 minutes, or until meatballs are browned and cooked through.
- Serving size: 1 meatball.
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1 Smart Point Meatballs
- Cook Time: 20 min
- Total Time: 25 min
- Yield: 20 1x
Ingredients
1 lb 93/7 lean ground beef
1 egg
1/4 cup of bread crumbs
1/2 cup of diced onion, cooked until soft
4 garlic cloves
1 tablespoon of fresh parsley
1oz of grated parmesan cheese
1/4 tsp each of salt and pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400ºF. Spray a large cookie sheet with cooking spray.
- Spray a small saucepan with cooking spray, and cook the onions until they are soft and tender. Let them cool.
- In a medium-sized bowl, mix together onion, bread crumbs, garlic, egg, cheese, salt, pepper, and parsley in a large mixing bowl.
- Add in ground beef and mix gently until combined. Do not overwork. Form into 1-inch balls using a cookie scoop or your hands, and place on prepared cookie sheet.
- Bake in preheated oven for 15-20 minutes, or until meatballs are browned and cooked through.
- Serving size: 1 meatball.
Notes
myWW points: Blue 1; Green 1; Purple 1
Points are calculated with the WW recipe builder app and not using the nutrition info.
I like these meatballs better without the onions added but if you like onions feel free to add those to the recipe. You can sub 1/2 tsp of onion powder.
- Category: Easy
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 meatball
- Calories: 56
- Sugar: 1
- Fat: 3
- Saturated Fat: 1
- Unsaturated Fat: 0
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 1
- Fiber: 0
- Protein: 6
Jessi says
I tried your meatball recipe and it turned out great! Definitely a better choice than frying. Now my next goal is to try using different types of meat for this dish and see how I can cook them right for this.
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Christie H says
I made this recipe today. It was quick, fast and easy not to mention delicious. I highly recommend it!!! Thanks for posting it!
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Katy says
Sooo good. I omitted the onions and used dried garlic and parsley. These were delicious. Thank you for the recipe.
Jenna says
Thanks Chris!
Chris says
These were really good, thanks for the recipe. I used 0 point zucchini noodles instead of pasta and it was delicious! This is definitely a go to dinner recipe for me…
Jenna says
That’s a great idea Sue!
Sue L says
Made this a few times. I tweaked it to do 1/2 turkey and 1/2 beef, then you can 2x the Meatballs!
malissa says
thanks so much for this. I am new to the program and am so happy to find a low point favorite.
Jenna says
I updated the recipe. When I first made this recipe I used ketchup and I’ve tried it without it. Still good! Thanks Daisy.
Daisy P says
Hello, thank you for this recipe. The instructions reference ketchup. The ingredient list does not include it. I made it without the ketchup and were still outstanding!
Sincerely, Daisy P.