Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, authentic italian meatballs. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Roll meatballs to about the size of a golf ball. (wet your hands to prevent the meat from sticking to them while rolling the meat balls). Serve Homemade Italian Meatballs for an easy dinner and leftovers on a bun for lunch. Authentic Italian meatballs make a great freezer meal and the meatball recipe is perfect paired with our easy homemade spaghetti sauce.
Authentic Italian Meatballs is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Authentic Italian Meatballs is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have authentic italian meatballs using 24 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Authentic Italian Meatballs:
- Make ready For the Meatballs:
- Get 250 veal mince (if you can't find, replace with beef mince)
- Prepare 250 beef mince
- Get 500 g pork mince
- Prepare 1 cup fresh bread crumbs (about 4 slices of bread should do it, no crusts)
- Make ready 2 tbsp fresh parsley
- Make ready 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
- Get 2 tsp salt
- Get 1/2 tsp ground pepper
- Make ready 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
- Prepare 1 extra-large egg
- Prepare Olive oil
- Get Vegetable Oil
- Make ready For the sauce:
- Make ready 1 tbsp olive oil
- Prepare 1 chopped onion
- Take 2 clove garlic
- Take 125 ml red wine - something good, like Chianti
- Get 750 g canned crushed or chopped tomatoes
- Take 1 tbsp parsley
- Take 1 1/2 tsp salt
- Prepare 1/2 ground black pepper
- Get For Serving:
- Take Fresh spaghetti!
You can eat them straight out of the oven or smother them in marinara sauce and serve them over pasta. A good meatball should be packed with flavor and tender throughout. Although the process can be a labor of love, making them from scratch is really easy. Here's how to make perfect meatballs every.
Instructions to make Authentic Italian Meatballs:
- Place all the ingredients for the meatballs in a bowl. Mix together with your hands until fully combined. Create 2 inch meatballs - you should have around 20.
- Pour vegetable and olive oil into a large saucepan/skillet. When the oil is hot enough, brown the meatballs on all sides. This will need to be done in batches - give the meatballs enough room in the pan. It should take about 10 minutes per batch. Don't worry about cooking them all the way through, just brown them nicely. Remove from the pan and put on the side.
- For the sauce, heat olive oil in the same pan you browned the meatballs in. Add the onion and saute for 10 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for 1 more minute. Add the wine and cook on high heat, scraping up the brown bites from the meatballs off the bottom of the pan. Cook until the wine evaporates, about 3 minutes.
- Add the tomatoes, parsley, salt, and pepper. Mix together.
- Return the meatballs to sauce, cover, and simmer on the lowest heat for 25 to 30 minutes. Let the meatballs cook all the way through.
- Serve on some hot spaghetti, and be sure to sprinkle on parmesan!
Made with beef, Parmesan cheese and Italian spices in a delicious tomato sauce. These Meatballs are going to be your family's favourite new recipe. This is one of my mother's recipes (her father was Italian, so it still counts), and they are the best I have ever eaten. My mother-in-law makes her pretty much the same way. Polpette (pohl-PHE-teh) is the Italian word for meatballs, and they are well loved in South Italy.
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