Authentic Italian Meatballs
Authentic Italian Meatballs

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, authentic italian meatballs. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really 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). In a medium frying pan on medium heat, add the olive oil and the meatballs, brown them on all sides. While meatballs are browning, in a separate, large deep pan add the olive oil, the tomato puree, spices and water, stir to combine. Cook until sauce has thickened and meatballs are cooked through.

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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook authentic italian meatballs using 24 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

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

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. Season with salt and pepper, then gently stir in bread crumb mixture, eggs, Parmesan, and parsley until just. Serve Homemade Italian Meatballs for an easy dinner and leftovers on a bun for lunch.

Steps to make Authentic Italian Meatballs:
  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!

Season with salt and pepper, then gently stir in bread crumb mixture, eggs, Parmesan, and parsley until just. 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. Every now and then we make pasta with sausage or a creamy pasta sauce. Polpette (pohl-PHE-teh) is the Italian word for meatballs, and they are well loved in South Italy.

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