This easy Swedish meatball casserole with pasta recipe will bring you back to your childhood. Best way of how to cook frozen meatballs with this Old Fashioned creamy sauce, quick comfort food topped with the crispy onions is delicious.
I decided to combine my two favorites things for dinner last night, we called it easy Swedish meatball casserole. It took no time at all to make. Just one of our quick and easy casseroles. (affiliate links present)
Swedish Meatball Noodle Bake
Traditionally my grandma made her own meatballs from scratch, and although those were delicious I just don’t have time for that step. Using frozen meatballs, I can whip up this easy comfort food casserole up in just fifteen minutes.
Get your noodles to al dente, fold it all together with our Swedish Meatball Sauce with Sour Cream, throw it in the oven to bubble up with crispy fried onions on top while I was busy doing laundry or playing a game with my kids and dinner is done. 😉
Ingredients
- Cooked Perfect Meatballs – frozen, bagged
- French’s fried onions
- or make your own homemade crispy fried onions
- Egg noodles work the best for these to soak in the sauce
- Cream is better than milk to get a thick rich sauce
- Butter for the sauce too
- Dijon mustard is the pop of flavor for that classic flavor
- Worcestershire sauce is great
- Beef broth is better than water and provides the moisture you need to cook it to tender
- Salt and pepper are the basic seasonings
Non stick cooking spray is great to spray your 9×13″ pan to bake in the oven. You could use ground beef to make meatballs and precook before adding into your baking dish.
You can typically find these frozen meatballs in your local grocery store though. They’re in the freezer section. Buy a few bags while you’re at it and try our pressure cooker frozen meatballs recipe later.
Just three minutes in the microwave warms the entire bag up. Add them to your creamy sauce, then into a casserole dish and top with crispy fried onions. You’re ready to pop it in the oven now for just twenty minutes.
How to Make Swedish Meatball Casserole
Time needed: 35 minutes
Swedish Meatballs Casserole
- Boil
Boil egg noodles on the stovetop until al dente, and defrost your meatballs.
- Preheat
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Cook
In a large pot over medium high heat, add butter, broth, cream, Worcestershire sauce, cream and dijon mustard. Stirring constantly add 1 tbsp of flour at a time and whisk in so it is smooth.
Whisk in sour cream until smooth, then add mushrooms if you want to add them. Add defrosted or precooked meatballs, then your al dente noodles. Gently stir to combine, cook 3-5 minutes. - Bake
Remove from heat and stir. Pour into casserole dish and put fried onions on top. Bake for about 20 minutes until top is golden brown.
Want to make this without the noodles, quick??!! Try our Instant Pot Swedish meatballs next!
Swedish Meatball Pasta Bake
If you’re a busy mom like me who loves hearty, feel-good meals you’ve got to try this easy Swedish Meatballs Casserole recipe. You won’t be disappointed. Using these make busy mom’s lives easier one bag at a time. Try our easy beef stew casserole next and let me know which one is your favorite!! 😉
Meatball recipes
- Crockpot spaghetti and meatballs is easy enough.
- Air Fryer Meatballs with sweet and sour sauce is simple
- Instant Pot meatballs have never been easier to make as an appetizer
What else can you eat meatballs with?
- By themselves with a side of pasta like butter noodles
- Alone topped with cheese
- Refrigerated biscuit pull apart bread is a great side dish
- Instant Pot white rice or quinoa
- Air fryer vegetables
- Meatball soup
Of course sauce is the biggest part of the flavoring component that sets these two apart. Italian meatballs are typically served in a tangy tomato sauce (marinara). Swedish meatballs are cooked in a rich, creamy gravy made with beef or bone broth and sour cream.
How to save leftovers
Leftover casserole saves quite well as long as you keep all that great sauce. Once cooled toss it together again to coat the pasta bake. Transfer it into a container with a lid or a freezer bag. Eliminate as much air as possible so it doesn’t dry out. Store in your refrigerator for up to 3 days max.
How to reheat a leftover casserole
When you reheat put it into a heat safe bowl and toss again. If you have extra sauce pour that on top. Microwave for 45 seconds, stir, and heat again for another 45 sec. to 1 minute until it is as warm as you’d like.
Nutritional daily values are based on the recipe cards calculations. I cannot guarantee how accurate they are.
Easy Swedish Meatball Casserole
Equipment
- 1 pot
- 1 9×13 pan
Ingredients
- 1 pkg. egg noodles, (8 oz)
- 1 pkg. Cooked Perfect Frozen Meatballs
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 5 tbsp. butter
- 2 c beef broth
- 1 c heavy cream
- 2 tbsp worcestershire Sauce
- 1/3 onion
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 c sour cream
- 3 tbsp all purpose flour
- 1 tbsp dijon mustard
- 1 c crispy fried onions
- 8 mushrooms, (quartered, optional)
Instructions
- Boil egg noodles until a bit al dente, drain and set aside.
- While you are boiling your noodles; in another pot warm butter until melted, then add broth, olive oil, cream, worcestershire sauce, diced onion, dijon, and salt together.
- Whisk in flour 1 tbsp at a time.
- Whisk in sour cream, allow to start boiling. Add mushrooms if desired.
- Empty bag of Cooked Perfect Frozen Meatballs on to a large plate or bowl so they aren’t overlapping.
- Put meatballs in microwave for 1 minute, turn them over, put in for 1 more minute, turn them over, then microwave for 1 more minute.
- Add meatballs to your sauce mixture and bring to a low boil again.
- Add your slightly al dente egg noodles in with your sauce and meatballs and stir gently. Bring to a low boil again and keep on stovetop for 3-5 minutes.
- Spray 9×13 casserole dish with non stick spray. Dump contents in dish and sprinkle with crispy fried onions on top.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees and bake for 20-25 minutes or until top is golden brown. Serve!
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
8 ounces of pasta for 10 servings will give you less than one gram per person of pasta. 22.68 grams to be exact. Egg noodles have a carb factor of approximately .65 grams, which means if 10 people divide this up, they will get 15 grams of carbohydrates for those 22.68 grams of pasta.
I do not calculate the nutrition, the recipe card does and cannot verify it’s accuracy. I just put in the amount of each ingredient.
Made these today and had to hold my husband back from eating the sauce out of the pan. 🙂
Awesome recipe! Easy to follow. I measured out the ingredients before I started cooking so I could just stir them in as directed. I had to add about an extra tablespoon of flour to get it to thicken, but the flavors are amazing. I was not sure about the onion topping because it made me think of “green bean casserole” LOL, but I used them anyhow to keep to the recipe. They are just the right thing to top this. Yummy.
Thank you for sharing.
Oh yay!!