Meatballs in Mushroom Cream Sauce

Meatballs in mushroom sauce is the ultimate comfort food! These beef and pork meatballs are pan seared and then simmered in a creamy mushroom sauce.

Course Main Dishes

Cuisine American

Keyword comfort food, meat, meatballs, Mushrooms, pork

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 35 minutes

Total Time 55 minutes

Servings Servings

Calories 348kcal

Ingredients

Ingredients:

1/2 pound ground pork sausage
1/2 pound ground beef
1 medium onion 1/2 minced and 1/2 sliced
4 cloves garlic minced
1/3 cup plain dry bread crumbs
1 egg beaten
1 teaspoon Herbs de Provence
1 tablespoon Worcestershire
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt plus more to taste
1/4 teaspoon fresh cracked black pepper plus more to taste
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 cups sliced mushrooms
2 tablespoons flour
1 cup low-sodium beef broth
1 cup milk
1/4 cup sour cream

Instructions

In a bowl combine sausage, ground beef, minced onion, garlic, bread crumbs, egg, Herbs de Provence, Worcestershire, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon black pepper. Mix with hands until well combined. Roll into approximately 15 meatballs.
Heat olive oil in large pan over medium heat. Fry meatballs in batches until all are browned, but not cooked through. Set aside. The meatballs will finish cooking in the sauce.
Reserve pan drippings. Add sliced onion and mushrooms to the pan. Cook 5-7 minutes or until browned. Sprinkle flour over the top and cook 1 minute.
Pour beef broth into the pan. Be sure to scrape up flavor bits from the bottom.
Whisk in the milk and sour cream. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low. Return meatballs to the pan. Spoon sauce over the meatballs and cook 25-30 minutes or until meatballs are cooked through. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve.

Notes

When adding the beef broth, be sure to scrape up the browned bits that have stuck to the bottom of the pan. That is called "fond" and there is so much good flavor there!

The meatballs won't be cooked through after pan searing, but they will finish cooking in the sauce. You can use a meat thermometer to make sure they reached 165 degrees Fahrenheit.

Nutrition facts for estimation purposes only.

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