Spaghetti With Baked Meatballs Under 30 Minutes! + Kitchen Tips
One of our favorite pasta recipes with ground beef baked meatballs is this easy recipe. I love cooking on Sundays, this family dinner or Sunday supper is perfect, spaghetti and meatballs.
It’s easy, and one of our ground beef pasta recipes. Always a family favorite. Usually, I cook the meatballs in the sauce pot, adding them to my cooking pasta sauce. But I tried a different way of cooking the meatballs. It was super easy and gave me an extra fifteen minutes to do other things. I love saving time and cleaning as I cook. Don’t you?
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Spaghetti With Baked Meatballs
Call me picky, but I’m a clean-as-you-go kind of cook. Today I’m sharing the easy recipe along with some other kitchen tips I think you’ll love. If you’re new here, my grandparents were chefs for an Italian restaurant. When they retired, they still loved cooking all the time.
Family Dinners
They had a large family and had big family dinners every weekend and on holidays. From the time I was able to dip my hands into a sink to help with dishes, the apron was tied behind my back.
When I was done helping, they would give me treats of Italian cookies. My grandma helped teach me how to clean, stir a pot of sauce, and later how to cook some of her favorite sauces.
Spaghetti and Meatballs Recipe For When You Are Busy!
On days I find myself too busy during the week to cook a pot of spaghetti sauce, this kind of recipe comes in handy. Today’s recipe is for meatballs (The recipe is at the end of the post). Use your favorite sauce, whether home-cooked or in a jar like I use when I’m super busy.
Spaghetti With Baked Meatballs
Meatballs are easy to make. This time, I followed a ground beef recipe I got from Bounty Paper Towels. I picked from their shared easy recipes. It was almost like the one I already made. And oh, so good.
The best part is that you bake the meatballs for fifteen minutes in the oven and then add them to your sauce. This makes them tender and moist. I liked this recipe! I think you will too. You’ll find the printable spaghetti and baked meatballs recipe later in the post.
You can call it cheating if you like, when not using homemade sauce, but things are different now. Our lifestyles are busier. The good news is that there are plenty of good pasta sauces and even organic pasta sauces that are delicious.
Make fresh homemade sauce with your meatballs when you can.
Making your easy meal doesn’t mean you don’t have messes to clean, whether it’s your cooking messes or the kids’ messes. I love cleaning as I go. Here are a few tips to help you!
Kitchen Tips
Clean As You Cook!
- When preparing dinners, I always clean my counters first (We have pets, but even if we didn’t, I would. Starting with a clean surface is important.) I use Mrs. Meyers spray cleaner (this is my favorite) with the paper towels.
- After I have any meats on the counter, I wipe the area down with a soapy paper towel like Bounty with Dawn. Or Clorox Wipes, then dry the surface.
- I also wipe the counters down after using or cracking any eggs.
- Then, of course, when any spills are happening as I cook (or when the kids serve themselves and make a mess), I am constantly wiping the counter surface.
- After I’m done cooking, I like to wipe down the stove, fridge doors, and dishwasher handle areas. This keeps our kitchen area clean and germ-free.
Doing all these things is good for sanitary reasons, but also helps make after-dinner clean-up quick and easy!
Then there is more time for visiting. Who doesn’t love that? I had a chance to try a new product, Bounty with Dawn. This is a specially designed 2-in-1 product that combines an ultra-durable Bounty paper towel with the grease-fighting power of Dawn dish soap. When activated by water, Bounty with Dawn stands up to tough messes like grease and dried food residue. Perfect for cleaning the stove area. (when it’s not hot)
- Bounty with Dawn stands up to tough messes, similar to a dishcloth.
- Bounty with Dawn is the thickest, strongest Bounty available on the market, with 70% more fibers in each sheet and cloth-like durability to stay intact while cleaning.
- Bounty with Dawn can even be reused—simply rinse and wring the grease out to keep tackling any mess with just one sheet.
- Regular Bounty is still recommended for everyday messes and spills.
- The grease-fighting power of Dawn combined with the strength of Bounty cleans 4x better than a used dishcloth.
My favorite thing about these paper towels is that you can rinse and wring out spills, sauces, or other everyday messes. They work like a charm!
And do a great job making my counters shiny and clean! (Don’t mind my cupboards, we are right in the middle of remodeling.) Do you have areas in the kitchen or house where you could use a Bounty re-usable dish towel with Dawn?
I’ve thought of a few more places I can! Cleaning the fridge, craft room, wiping down the kids’ desks, computer keyboards, or tables.
You can find Bounty and Dawn products at your local Walmart or online at Amazon. I know this product is going to be a new staple in our home, especially when I’m cooking up easy recipes or when we are doing DIY and craft projects.
Print The Recipe
Spaghetti With Baked Meatballs Recipe
Spaghetti and Baked Meatball Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 lb. ground beef
- 1/4 cup dried plain bread crumbs
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese
- 1-1/2 tsp. Italian Seasoning
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- Pasta
- Red Sauce jar or homemade
- Cooking spray
Instructions
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Pre heat oven to 350* Spray a muffin tin or baking pan with cooking spray.
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Combine beef, breadcrumbs, cheese, egg, Italian seasoning, and salt in a large bowl.
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Roll into 1-1/4 inch balls and place in pre sprayed muffin tin.
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Bake until cooked about 15 minutes.
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Occasionally shake the pan to brown the meatballs evenly.
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Cook pasta according to package directions. Warm pasta sauce and toss in meatballs. Serve over cooked pasta
Recipe Notes
Homemade Spaghetti Sauce http://www.dearcreatives.com/30-minute-meals-quick-and-easy-homemade-pasta-sauce/
Adapted from Bounty
Do you enjoy recipes that are under 30 minutes?
Today’s post has been updated from an originally published in 2015 and was originally brought to you by SheSpeaks and Bounty.
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Meatballs are one of my favorite meals for the family! So easy and yummy — but we definitely have those messes to deal with afterwards. Bounty is awesome for this!!
HI Ana, Thanks for stopping by.Yes, I love having bounty to help keep things clean in the kitchen. I bet you’ll like this new product they have too.
That’s a really creative way to make spagetti! Never thought of baking meatballs before.
I’ve been eyeing that Dawn paper towels. I need that in my life!
Hi Stacie, I had never made them baked either until I tried their recipe. You’ll love the Bounty with Dawn paper towels. They seriously have been handy to have.
I should have been Italian because I eat so much pasta, so these bounty towels are a must! 🙂 Thanks for the tip! Found you on Friendship Friday Blog Party & Social Media Boost! 🙂
Thanks Kim for stopping by and letting me know how you found me. Looking forward to getting to know you!