Polish Meatballs

Ingredients

  • 6 lbs ground beef/pork/bison
  • 10 slices white bread, soaked in milk and squeezed
  • 6 eggs
  • salt and pepper
  • 2 lbs button mushrooms (sliced)
  • 2 onions, chopped finely
  • 1 Tbsp shortening/lard
  • 6 beef bouillon cubes
  • 16 oz sour cream

Directions

  1. Mix meat, eggs, 1/2 onions and bread in large bowl.
  2. Season meat mixture with salt and pepper.
  3. Form into small balls and roll in flour.
  4. In a frying pan, brown meatballs in shortening (only needed for first round of meatballs) on all sides.
  5. Once browned, move meatballs to crock-pot with 4 cups of water.
  6. Add bouillon cubes.
  7. Turn up the heat on crock-pot.
  8. Once all meatballs are browned and in crock-pot, add mushrooms and remaining onions to the pan.
  9. Once sautéed, add mushrooms to meatball mixture in crock-pot.
  10. Stir.
  11. Should take about an hour for meatballs to cook.  Can cook all day on low simmer.

Add sour cream 20 minutes before serving.