Coca-Cola Meatballs

If Coca-Cola Roast Beef is for Sunday dinner, than this recipe will be a mid-week favourite or perhaps something to serve up during the game.  These meatballs can be made in golf ball sizes and served over pasta with the sauce for a delicious dinner, or make them a little smaller, insert a toothpick after baking and serve with the sauce as a dip.  I found this recipe posted on Pinterest.

Ingredients:

• 1 lb Lean Ground Beef
• 1/2 cup Seasoned Bread Crumbs
• 1 Egg
• 1 TB Water
• 1 Onion, chopped finely, divided
• 1/2 t Salt, divided
• 1/2 t Freshly Ground Black Pepper, divided
• 2 t Garlic, crushed
• 1 cup Tomato Sauce
• 1 cup Coca-Cola
• 2 TB Worcestershire Sauce
• 1 Green Bell Pepper, chopped finely

Directions:

• Pre-heat the oven to 350F.
• Spray a 11 x 7 oven dish with cooking spray.
• In a large mixing bowl, combine the Beef, Bread Crumbs, Egg, Water, half of the chopped Onion, half of the Green Bell Pepper, half the Salt and half the Black Pepper.
• Mix well and form into balls - place in a single layer on the prepared oven dish.
• In a small bowl, mix together the remaining Onion, Salt, and Pepper, add the Garlic, Tomato Sauce, Coca-Cola, Worcestershire Sauce and the Green Bell Pepper - pour over the meatballs.
• Bake 50 - 60 minutes {turning twice} until sauce is bubbly and the meatballs are fully cooked.