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The Perfect Barbeque Meatballs

From Memorial Day To Labor Day, summertime is filled with the tantalizing scent of charcoal and barbeque sauce. What better way to bring in the sunshine season, than with the perfect barbeque meatballs? These tasty treats are sure to be a crowd pleaser any time of the year; but they go oh so well with sun, lemonade, and the crisp scent of a grill.

Preparing Your Barbeque Meatballs

Barbeque meatballs should initially be prepared in a clean kitchen. Wash your hands thoroughly before and after handling the raw meat. To make these succulent morsels you will need to mix together in a large bowl, three pounds of lean hamburger meat, and one pound of ground turkey. The ground turkey helps to offset any extra fat left in the hamburger.

To continue preparing your barbeque meatballs, add to the meat mixture one third cup of quick oats, one quarter cup Worcestershire sauce, one eighth of a cup onion powder, and two tablespoons garlic powder. Blend well. Add two well-beaten raw eggs, and mix together thoroughly.

Once you have mixed together all of the ingredients for the barbeque meatballs, shape the meat mixture into meatballs by rolling a small amount of meat between your palms. The meatballs can be whatever size you wish, but keep in mind that the size affects the cooking time. I try to make my barbeque meatballs about the size of a racquetball. Keep in mind that the meatballs will shrink as they cook.

The Sauce

When your meatballs have all been placed on the hot grill, you will want to make sure that you brush them regularly with your barbeque sauce. Otherwise, you won’t have barbeque meatballs, just plain meatballs.

The sauce is a very important part of your barbeque meatballs. You don’t want to spread it onto the meatballs too thickly, or else they will fall apart before they have had the chance to cook. The eggs in the meat mixture help to prevent this, but too much sauce might mean you’ll be having sloppy joe’s instead.

The following sauce recipe makes these barbeque meatballs the talk of the town. Mix one bottle of your favourite barbeque sauce with one half of a twelve ounce can of beer. Add to this one tablespoon garlic powder, and one half cup brown sugar. Stir vigorously until the sugar has dissolved, then brush across your barbeque meatballs. This tried and true recipe for barbeque meatballs is sure to become a family favourite. Bon Appétit!