Just what you need for the big Super Bowl party at the neighbors’ house! A yummy, quick and easy appetizer to take with you 🙂 You’ll need a pound of ground beef, a bit of onion (any kind), soy sauce, a bit of brown sugar a sliced baguette, and nothing else! These are so easy to make that your kids could prepare them while you’re in the shower. Meat eaters and teenage boys will fall over themselves getting to the platter. This recipe is from The 150 Best American Recipes.

This is great to have on hand for after school snacks, too. Keep the meat in a covered container in the refrigerator with the bread sliced in another container. The kids can mix up a tray of these meatballs-on-toast for themselves when the get home. I always got a grateful, “Awwwww, Mommmmm!” from my son when I did this—score!

Meatballs on Toast

INGREDIENTS

• 1 sliced baguette—Le Boulanger has the best 🙂
• 1 lb. ground chuck—nothing leaner than 85/15, or this recipe won’t work.
• ¼ cup regular soy sauce, and don’t use low sodium.
• 1½ teaspoons dark brown sugar
• 4 green onions, minced OR similar quantity of sauteed onion or shallot.

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 450°.
2. Mix meat, soy sauce, brown sugar and onions together with your hands until the mixture resembles a fine paste.
3. Pinch a piece of the meat mixture and press smoothly onto a baguette slice, smoothing to all edges.
4. Continue making flat meatballs until all the meat mixture has been used up—you’ll be able to make about 3 dozen.
5. Bake for 8 or 9 minutes at 450°, then serve hot.

*My friend, Karin, uses a couple dashes of Yoshida’s Gourmet Sauce in place of the soy sauce and sugar.

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