Breakfast Meatballs

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These meatballs have all of your breakfast favorites packed into a tiny bite sized meatballs. That’s right, there is sausage, bacon, eggs and cheese all inside. They are a tasty and fun way to change up your brunch menu.

Make breakfast more exciting with these tasty meatballs. Breakfast sausage gets spiced up with bacon, cheese and hard boiled eggs and turned into something even better.

A few years back, my brother made breakfast sausage links that had eggs and bacon mixed in. I think we saw some inspiration on Facebook or Pinterest and he actually ground up the mixture and stuffed it into casings.

He was nice enough to share some with us and Little Dude was instantly hooked. We still talk about those sausages all this time later and we regularly try to talk my brother into opening a meat shop that specializes in custom sausages.

We had a meatball competition coming up and Little Dude wanted to enter. So making meatballs inspired by that sausage made perfect sense.

We thought breakfast meatballs would be a fun and different entry. Can you believe there were at least four breakfast inspired recipes out of the fourteen?

Anyway, after several test batches and the final entry batch, we still love these meatballs. They are a fun and versatile option to make your meal even more special.

Making the meatballs

You want to start by prepping the pre-cooked ingredients. One of which is the hard boiled eggs.

Make them via whatever your preferred method is. I usually boil them on the stove or do the 5-5-5 instant pot method.

You can cook the eggs up to several days in advance. Just chill them until you are ready to use them.

You will also want to cook up your bacon. Medium doneness is fine, just so it is easy to chop.

A quick proud mom brag: Little Dude did all of the chopping of the eggs and bacon for his entry. I am so impressed with how competent he is in the kitchen!

Meatballs usually have a binder in them. It only made sense to use oatmeal in a breakfast meatball, just like we use in Marlene’s meatballs.

Toss in some shredded cheese and you have all of the makings of a tasty brunch meatball. Our tester meatballs were about Ping-Pong ball sized, but we did smaller meatballs for the competition.

A small cookie scoop was the perfect way to get a Tablespoon of the mixture for a perfect bite sized ball. Plus that way they cooked really evenly.

Just gently roll them between your hands to shape them. If you like pan fried meatballs, cook them in the bacon grease left from crisping the bacon.

Otherwise just arrange them on a baking sheet and let the oven cook them. Both ways are delicious.

Serving suggestions

Over several batches, we have enjoyed these meatballs several ways. All of them were delicious.

They are good on their own alongside your favorite entree. A few with a fried egg and hashbrowns is a perfect combination.

We also made a milk gravy much like you make sausage gravy to go on biscuits. Then serve it on toast, biscuits, a bowl of grits or your favorite vehicle for gravy.

The third batch got served with waffles and a drizzle of maple syrup. If you like dipping a sausage link into syrup, you will love these meatballs cooked in a bit of syrup.

More sausage filled breakfast favorites

Make breakfast for the whole family at once with a sausage sheet pan pancake. Just be sure to have the maple syrup ready!

Bake all of your breakfast favorites together in a fun and tasty sausage and waffle breakfast casserole. It’s great on its own or with a drizzle of that maple syrup.

If you love these meatballs, you should also try Bisquick sausage balls. You can change the flavors of cheese and sausage you use to make them at home on the breakfast table or as an appetizer for a party.

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