Authentic Italian Meatballs But every so often we just have to take it. These Italian meatballs use a standard mix of ground beef and ground pork, with added flavor from parsley, garlic, and dried herbs. Bake up a batch, mix them with your favorite spaghetti dish, and dinner is served!

Ingredients of Authentic Italian Meatballs

  1. You need of For the Meatballs:.
  2. Prepare 250 of veal mince (if you can't find, replace with beef mince).
  3. Prepare 250 of beef mince.
  4. It's 500 g of pork mince.
  5. You need 1 cup of fresh bread crumbs (about 4 slices of bread should do it, no crusts).
  6. It's 2 tbsp of fresh parsley.
  7. You need 1/2 cup of grated parmesan cheese.
  8. Prepare 2 tsp of salt.
  9. You need 1/2 tsp of ground pepper.
  10. Prepare 1/4 tsp of ground nutmeg.
  11. You need 1 of extra-large egg.
  12. It's of Olive oil.
  13. You need of Vegetable Oil.
  14. It's of For the sauce:.
  15. It's 1 tbsp of olive oil.
  16. Prepare 1 of chopped onion.
  17. You need 2 clove of garlic.
  18. Prepare 125 ml of red wine - something good, like Chianti.
  19. Prepare 750 g of canned crushed or chopped tomatoes.
  20. You need 1 tbsp of parsley.
  21. You need 1 1/2 tsp of salt.
  22. It's 1/2 of ground black pepper.
  23. Prepare of For Serving:.
  24. It's of Fresh spaghetti!.

Authentic Italian Meatballs step by step

  1. 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..
  2. 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..
  3. 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..
  4. Add the tomatoes, parsley, salt, and pepper. Mix together..
  5. 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..
  6. Serve on some hot spaghetti, and be sure to sprinkle on parmesan!.

Meatballs in a tasty tomato sauce. In a blender in food processor, combine the bread, eggs, Parmesan cheese, parsley, garlic, oil, salt, pepper and allspice; cover and process until smooth. You won't find Spaghetti and Meatballs in Italy … Yes, really! In Italy, meatballs are called Polpette. Though the ingredients are typically the same as what I am using (except for my grated onion technique) along with a similar tomato sauce, they are larger (about the size of golf balls) and they are served with bread rather than pasta.

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