Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, italian meatballs. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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.
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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have italian meatballs using 21 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Italian Meatballs:
- Take 1 lb Ground beef
- Prepare 1 lb Ground pork
- Prepare 2 cup Sliced or torn bread
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup Milk
- Make ready 1 Chicken egg
- Get 1 cup Freshly grated parmesan cheese (medium grate) (plus more for service presentation)
- Take 1 medium White onion, finely diced
- Make ready 2 clove Garlic, minced
- Prepare 1 1/2 tbsp Fennel seed
- Prepare 1 tbsp Italian Seasoning
- Prepare 1 tbsp Extra virgin olive oil
- Prepare 1 pinch Red pepper flake
- Take 1 Your favorite marinara sauce
- Make ready 1 1/2 tbsp Kosher salt
- Get 1 1/2 tbsp Freshly-ground black pepper
- Make ready 2 pinch Kosher salt
- Get "Meatball" Subs
- Prepare 12 provolone or mozzarella (or both) slices
- Make ready 6 Hoagie buns
- Prepare Meatballs for Pasta
- Get 6 Servings cooked pasta
Then combine with your favorite homemade or purchased sauce and serve over pasta. Old School Italian Meatballs are the whole comfort food package. They're juicy, tender, and filled with a blend of Italian spices. Serve them over your favorite pasta, in a marinara sauce, or eat them right out of the pan!
Steps to make Italian Meatballs:
- Heat a large saute pan on low to medium-low heat. Toast the fennel seeds and red pepper flake in the pan for one to two minutes, taking care to not burn the spices. Add the olive oil and raise heat on the pan to medium.
- Add the diced onion to the sauté pan and one pinch of Kosher salt. Sweat onions for 5-6 minutes and add minced garlic. Sweat for another 5-6 minutes. Stir in Italian seasoning, sweat another minute or two and remove from heat and allow to cool to around room temp.
- Soak the bread pieces in the milk. In a large mixing bowl, beat the egg with a pinch of salt and a few grinds of black pepper. After the bread pieces have soaked up as much milk as possible, drain the excess and mash the bread with a fork so there are no large or medium sized chunks. Stir the bread and grated parmesan to combine in the large mixing bowl with the beaten egg mixture.
- Add cooled onion mixture to bread mixture and stir to combine. Add ground pork and ground beef to the mixture along with the 1/2 TBSP of Kosher salt and 1/2 TBSP of freshly-ground black pepper. It's easiest (for me, anyway) to mix this with your hands. Don't worry about over-mixing. Make sure the entire mixture is as homogeneous as possible.
- For Meatballs and pasta: Turn on your oven's broiler and put a rack about 3/4 of the way to the top. Form the meat mixture into 3-4 ounce balls (you'll have about 12-15 meatballs) and place them in a 9x13 roasting pan. Place them under the broiler for about 20 minutes or until the internal temperature is 165°F. The inside of the meatball will remain juicy, tender and flavorful. Serve with pasta and marinara and garnish with parmesan cheese.
- For "Meatball" Sandwiches: Form the meat mixture into patties. Fry in a pan on the stove top. Melt cheese over the patties. Toast a split hoagie roll. Assemble sandwich with a few tsps of marinara.
A blend of beef and pork give them richness, a few aromatics and some cheese make them flavorful, and a splash of milk ensures they're tender. 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). Italian meatballs can be made from different types of meat, but commonly use lean ground beef and then a fattier meat like pork or veal to add richness. Italian seasonings, breadcrumbs, and a binder of egg are typically what make up traditional meatballs, as well, but you can try so many different meatball recipes to change things up! This recipe makes the most tender and tasty meatballs.
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