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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.
Italian meatballs is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Italian meatballs is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook italian meatballs using 10 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Italian meatballs:
- Make ready 2 lb 80/20 Ground Beef
- Make ready 1 lb Ground Italian Sausage
- Prepare 1 bunch Fresh Italian Parsley
- Make ready 1 cup Parmesan cheese shredded
- Get 2 cup Bread crumbs
- Prepare 4 Eggs
- Get 5 clove Garlic (large cloves) about 1/2 bulb peeled
- Take 2 pinch Red pepper flakes
- Take 2 pinch Salt
- Take 2 pinch Black pepper
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 oven to 350°F
- Put peeled garlic, parsley, eggs into food processor and blend until parsley and garlic are finely chopped
- Put meat into large bowl or mixer
- Add bread crumbs, blended eggs, parsley, garlic.
- Add cheese
- Add red pepper, salt, black pepper.
- Mix all ingredients until a meatloaf texture forms. Add more breadcrumb if needed for binding.
- Take meat mixture and roll in hands until a compact ball is formed about size of a golfball or slightly larger
- Place aluminum foil on baking sheet, spray with non stick pam
- Place meatballs on sheet about an inch apart
- Cook meatballs about 12 min on bottom rack, remove and flip to brown all sides, put back in oven 10 more min.
- Optional - Drop into your homemade sauce on stove, cover with lid, and set to low for 3 to 4 hours stirring every 20 min.
- Serve!
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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