Sweet and Savory BBQ Meatballs

Ingredients

Tasty meatballs.

Recipe slightly adapted from my awesome sister-in-law Erin Jepsen

Meatballs

• 1 onion, finely chopped (or one envelope of onion soup)
• 1 1/2 sleeves saltine crackers (or breadcrumbs)
• 2 pounds ground beef (or 1 lb ground beef, 1 lb ground turkey)
• 3 eggs
• salt and pepper
• 3 Tb honey mustard (or spicy brown mustard)
• 1/2 C ketchup
• 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce

Sauce

• 1/4 C ketchup
• 3/4 C sweet baby rays
• 1 C brown sugar

(I used 3/4 C ketchup, 1 C brown sugar, and 1 C bbq sauce)

Instructions

1. Preheat your oven to 400 degrees.
2. Chop an onion up into small pieces. Now, just a word of caution here. Chop the onions much smaller than the onions you see in this picture. Mine ended up being a bit too big and I wished I had taken the time to chop them in to fine little pieces.
3. Pour 1 and 1/2 sleeves of saltine crackers into a gallon sized Ziploc bag. Crush the crackers with a rolling-pin until they are all crumbly and wonderful.
4. Into a large mixing bowl place the cracker crumbs, 2 pounds ground beef (I use 9% lean), 3 eggs, salt and pepper, 3 Tb honey mustard, 1/2 C ketchup and 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce. Get your hands down into the bowl and mix all of the ingredients together well.
5. Line 2 large cookie sheets with tin foil and spray it with cooking spray. Roll the meat into 2 inch balls and lay them out evenly on the trays.
6. Bake them in the oven for 20 minutes.
7. While the meatballs cook away, combine 1/4 cup ketchup, 3/4 cup Sweet Baby Rays BBQ sauce and 1 cup brown sugar.
8. When the meatballs have a nice, crispy, dark brown exterior take them out of the oven and drizzle about 2 teaspoons of sauce over each one. Pop them back in the oven for 15 minutes to allow the sauce to heat through and get all sticky and marvelous.