TRADITIONAL ITALIAN RECIPE: A good meatball is tender, never tough. Using this recipe you will learn the basic traditional italian recipe for meatballs.
The key to making a tender meatball is to use an appropriate amount of breadcrumbs. You can use beef, pork, or veal for your meatballs, but again, if you do not use enough bread, they will be tough.
Some people make a meatball solely out of bread, and called them Breadballs... and they are heavenly!
Typical italian ricette for polpette al forno call for 500 grams of carne and about 100 or more grams of pane grattugiato and 100 grams of latte. Keep this in mind. If you don't have these three ingredients and amount, that's not italian.
Spaghetti with Meatballs is not Italian!
Well, I'm Italian. I was born in Milan and I had meatballs in my pasta quite often. I don't understand why people that never had it, just call it 'not Italian'. Is there a rule for such a useless thing? Do WE NEED a rule? Please... grow up. You make meatballs with tomato sauce, this means you might eat some pasta if you are italian... what stops you to put a couple of balls in the plate?
My mother ( a professional italian chef ) used to make Pasta and meatballs for a second course. She then used some of the meatballs tomato sauce for the Pasta. There, she also dropped a couple of meatballs in to push us to eat meat. And finally, if there was some tomato sauce left on the plate, we scooped everything up with a piece of bread... a technique called 'scarpetta'.
When I hear people saying 'Spaghetti and Meatballs is not italian' I really wanna hit them hard with a roasted chicken.
Just like any good Italian recipe, there is still some room for interpretation so that no one can duplicate it precisely. Sometimes I wish I were everyone were even little partially Italian, so that you could have learned the secrets from my mother even if that heritage comes with a side of crazy.
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Time: 1 Hour |
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Serves: 4 People |
Ingredients:
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Directions:
01 - Preheat oven to 180C / 350F.
02 - Spread some Olive Oil on a baking sheet.
03 - Mix all the ingredients thoroughly in large bowl.
04 - If the mixture seems a little loose add more bread crumbs.
05 - Now, roll the Meatballs loosely about the size of a golf ball and place the on baking sheet.
06 - Place into the preheated oven for approximately 35 to 40 minutes. Serve.
Notes:
- Feel free to mix the Meatballs with the Tomato Sauce you like.
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Myla
August 11, 2020 Amazing meatballs! They really came out well, my son loved them. This is a really good recipe. |
Carolina
June 26, 2020 Nothing to alter nor add here. This is a fantastic recipe as it is. |
Ellena
May 18, 2020 This is my go to meatball recipe. |
Iram
March 19, 2020 Delicious. I made this for my family and my kids 5 and 8 loved them. Very very very delicious. Thank you for sharing. |
Monica
March 09, 2020 This is like my grandmother's recipe. |
Jed
February 23, 2020 Your recipe title is accurate. This is the classic italian meatball recipe, absolutely the best! |
Tanja
December 16, 2019 These meatballs are amazing! This is the first time I cook meatballs and this is it. My family loved them too. I have doubled all the ingredients and kept some meatballs in the fridge. |
September 04, 2020
These are great meatballs. So moist. I've added extra stuff into mine like herbs and spices and some cinnamon and they were great. I'll definitely be making them again.