This skillet meatballs recipe is a complete one-dish dinner with potatoes, carrots, and peas.
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This Skillet Meatballs Recipe with Vegetables is a favorite from my childhood. When we were young, my sister and I called it “Kitchen Garden Skillet,” but that wasn’t the recipe’s name. I don’t remember why we called it that, or the actual name of the recipe or the cookbook my mother found it in. I also don’t have a copy of the original recipe written anywhere. However, this meal has been a staple in my life for many years. Made from memory, slightly changing it over the year.
Though I don’t remember much, I do know some of the changes I’ve made to it. The original recipe began by sautéing the diced onion before adding it to the meat, and then rolling the meatballs in flour before browning them. I eliminated these steps many years ago to save time, and I don’t think it has hurt the flavor. My Mom used canned peas, but I don’t know whether that was what the recipe called for or her substitution. I use frozen peas because I prefer the flavor and firmness in cooked dishes.
Skillet Meatballs and Vegetables Recipe
Ingredients
Meatball Ingredients:
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 small onion, diced
- 1 egg
- 2 Tablespoons all-purpose flour (or 1 tablespoon cornstarch)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
Additional Ingredients:
- 3½ cups beef broth or 2 cans beef consume
- 2 pounds potatoes, peeled and chopped
- 1 pound carrots, peeled and sliced or baby carrots
- 2 cups frozen peas, thawed
- 1 bunch green onions, trimmed
Directions:
- Place the ground beef, onion, egg, flour, salt, and pepper in a medium bowl. Mix the ingredients together until thoroughly combined.
- Form meatballs from the meat mixture..
- Brown the meatballs in a large skillet that has a lid.
- Pour beef broth over the meatballs; put the lid on the skillet and simmer for 25 minutes.
- Prepare the other vegetables while the meatballs are cooking.
- Push meatballs to one side; add potatoes and carrots ( I sprinkle the veggies with a little extra salt and pepper), and divide the meatballs and the vegetables with the green onions.
- Return the lid to the skillet and simmer for another 25 minutes.
- Add thawed peas and simmer for another 5 minutes or until peas are warm and meatballs are completely cooked.
Serve. The green onions keep the different food separated, so if you have a picky eater it is easy to sperate the foods on the plate when serving.
Last week when I made this I doubled the meatballs and put the extras in the freezer. That will cut down on the prep time when I make it again this week.
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Skillet Meatballs Recipe with Potatoes, Carrots, and Peas
Ingredients
Meatball Ingredients:
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 small onion finely chopped
- 1 egg
- 2 Tablespoons all-purpose flour or 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
Additional Ingredients:
- 3½ cups beef broth
- 2 pounds potatoes chopped
- 1 pound carrots peeled and sliced or baby carrots
- 2 cups frozen peas thawed
- 1 bunch green onions trimmed
Instructions
- Place the ground beef, onion, egg, flour, salt, and pepper in a medium bowl. Mix the ingredients together until thoroughly combined.
- Form meatballs from the meat mixture..
- Brown the meatballs in a large skillet that has a lid.
- Pour beef broth over the meatballs; put the lid on the skillet and simmer for 25 minutes.
- Prepare the other vegetables while the meatballs are cooking.
- Push the meatballs to one side; add the potatoes and the carrots ( I sprinkle the veggies with a little extra salt and pepper), and divide the vegetables with the green onions.
- Return the lid to the skillet and simmer for another 25 minutes.
- Add thawed peas and simmer for another 5 minutes or until peas are warm and meatballs are completely cooked.
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Jeanette says
I Googled Kitchen Garden Skillet recipe for the shopping list for my husband. And who’s name pops up, but Alea and her Premeditated Leftovers recipe.
Alea says
mub- Thanks for the idea, perhaps I will get a hairnet too and round out the lunch lady look. 😉
TammyLee says
This looks easy enough for me to make! I hate to cook, lol.
I found you thru Melissa, at Frugal Creativity.
mub says
Oh, I need to try this out! I hate rolling meatballs too, so I got some foodsafe latex gloves and wear them when I do it. It doesn't bother me too much anymore =)
Alea says
My family loves this recipe. I should really make it more often, but I just hate forming meatballs with my hands. Eew!
Melissa says
That looks good! My mother-in-law makes a dish that's similar except that she doesn't use carrots or peas: it's just meatballs with potatoes and onions. Yummy!