Best easy Meatball recipe?

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: ducci
Also, don't pull a "Lady and the Tramp" and put the meatballs on the pasta. Meat is a course all its own - it comes after the pasta but before the salad.

Phooey, I likes meatballs on my spaghetti and that's the way I'm gonna eat it.
You with your fancy multiple course meals and such!
/shakes angry old man fist

 

[DrPizza]

ground beef. Don't go with the lean stuff, otherwise they turn out dry. (Don't worry, a lot of the grease will cook out of them.)

I prefer making it with bread crumbs, but if you don't have bread crumbs on hand, this will work well:
soak 4 slices of bread in some water for a minute or two. Mix in 2 eggs, add 1 lb ground beef, about 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese, 2 Tbsp parsley, about a tsp of salt, 1/4 tsp oregano, and a dash of pepper. Form into balls, brown slowly in a bit of oil. Add to spaghetti mixture & let cook for at least a half hour. I personally think it tastes best made a day in advance, then allowed to heat up and simmer in a crockpot for a couple hours the day you're going to use it.

p.s. Someone mentioned Italians. A true Italian connoisseur would consider it blasphemy to use canned or jarred spaghetti sauce. Start with the freshest Roma tomatoes you can get. Not the picked green, artificially ripened crap sold at most grocery stores...

 

[oznerol]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
p.s. Someone mentioned Italians. A true Italian connoisseur would consider it blasphemy to use canned or jarred spaghetti sauce. Start with the freshest Roma tomatoes you can get. Not the picked green, artificially ripened crap sold at most grocery stores...

A true Italian knows it's called gravy.

 

[Kaido]

They came out nicely baked, but not much flavor - I forgot the cardinal rule of cooking meat in Italian dishes: always double or triple the amount of spices because the flavor cooks out when you bake or boil it. So I fried them up in some flavorings, plus to give them a crispy texture:

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Still not that tasty, so I added a bunch of spices to the sauce and that really evened it out because I did small meatballs. I used 2 cans of Prego Mushroom sauce plus a medium can of Hunt's Tomato paste (I added the paste because I used a bit too much spices and it came out perfect). And the finale:

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+ Spaghetti with Meatballs
+ Home-baked Italian Bread
+ Fresh New England Apple Cider

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