Delectable Italian Meatballs Recipes

ITALIAN STYLE MEATBALLS RECIPE

Steps:

• In a large skillet, heat oil over medium heat. Add onion and saute for 5 minutes. Add garlic and stir. Remove from heat.
• In a large bowl combine the egg, parmesan cheese, ground beef, tomato sauce and parsley. Add the onion garlic mixture and mix until the ingredients are blended.
• Roll the mixture into small balls, about 1 1/2" in diameter. Fry in a bit of oil or, if you prefer to bake them, place them on a baking sheet and bake in preheated 350ºF (180ºC) oven for 20 minutes or until cooked through.
• Add them to Italian tomato sauce and heat through to serve.

CHEF JOHN'S ITALIAN MEATBALLS

Steps:

• Cover a baking sheet with foil and spray lightly with cooking spray.
• Soak bread crumbs in milk in a small bowl for 20 minutes.
• Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir onions in hot oil until translucent, about 20 minutes.
• Mix beef and pork together in a large bowl. Stir onions, bread crumb mixture, eggs, parsley, garlic, salt, black pepper, red pepper flakes, Italian herb seasoning, and Parmesan cheese into meat mixture with a rubber spatula until combined. Cover and refrigerate for about one hour.
• Preheat an oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
• Using wet hands, form meat mixture into balls about 1 1/2 inches in diameter. Arrange onto prepared baking sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until browned and cooked through, 15 to 20 minutes.

DELICIOUS MEATBALLS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Drizzle a large baking sheet with about 2 tablespoons olive oil.
• Heat remaining olive oil in a small saute pan over medium heat. Cook and stir onion in the hot oil until translucent, 5 to 7 minutes. Add garlic and Italian seasoning; continue to saute until garlic is softened, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool enough to handle.
• Combine beef, pork, bread crumbs, Parmesan cheese, milk, onion mixture, salt, and pepper in a large bowl. Mix together using your hands as quickly as possible as overmixing can produce a tough meatball.
• Form 1 1/2-inch meatballs and place on the prepared sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until browned and no longer pink in the centers, about 30 minutes, turning them over after 15 minutes.

HOMEMADE ITALIAN MEATBALLS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, mix all of the ingredients together.
• Roll into 1 1/2" balls and place them closely together in 9x13 pans that have been sprayed with cooking spray. **You can place a wire rack on the baking sheet and bake the meatballs on the rack so that the fat drips down if you'd like.**
• Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes, or until the meatballs are cooked through.
• Serve the meatballs immediately with sauce and spaghetti, put them in the slow cooker along with sauce to have them simmer, or freeze the meatballs in Ziploc bags to use another time.
• If you freeze the meatballs, allow them to cool completely before packaging them.

DELICIOUS ITALIAN MEATBALLS

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 180°C.
• Soak the breadcrumbs in the milk.
• Lightly fry the shallots, garlic and chilli. When they have sweated down add the white wine and reduce for a minute or 2 until it has almost evaporated. Add the tomatoes along with the basil, oregano and finally the olives. Simmer to reduce (this should take 5-10 mins).
• While the tomato sauce is cooking, make up the meatballs: Into the mince add the parsley, parmesan, garlic and add soaked breadcrumbs, mix well. Season with a little salt and pepper.
• Shape into walnut sized balls and lightly coat the meatballs in the flour and fry in hot olive oil until golden. Add the meatballs to the tomato sauce and bake in the oven for 10 minutes.
• Serve with basmati rice, or choice of pasta.

DELECTABLE ITALIAN MEATBALLS

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl, mix the ground beef, garlic powder,italian bread crumbs, eggs, chopped garlic, ground black pepper and soaked italian bread (make sure you drain the water out of bread very well).
• Note: It's okay to add a little more or less on the bread crumbs.
• Also make sure that the bread is very soft before you mix it in.
• Mix all ingredients together well using hands.
• Make sure mixture is smooth.
• Preheat oil in large frying pan.
• Start rolling your meatballs (whatever size you want) I usually make them large.
• For Large meatballs about 5 to 8 minutes.
• When meatballs are done, take them out of hot oil and place on to paper toweled plate.
• Serve warm.
• Enjoy!

EASY BAKED ITALIAN MEATBALLS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
• In a large bowl, mix all of the ingredients together until well combined.
• Roll the meat mixture into balls. Use a cookie scoop or spoon to create balls that are about 1 ½ tablespoons each. Add the balls to a parchment paper lined baking sheet.
• Bake the meatballs for 16 - 20 minutes, or until the internal temperature reaches 160 degrees and the meatballs are cooked through. You can serve these meatballs plain, add them to your favorite sauce (marinara sauce, BBQ sauce, etc.) or serve them with noodles (like spaghetti).