Meatballs are a favorite food made in many styles and flavors. Served as an accompanying meat to a pasta and sauce, or in a sub for a lunch time sandwich, meatballs can be bought prepackaged or made from scratch. Meatball recipes are often passed from generation to generation.
Most recognized as an Italian food accompaniment to spaghetti the compact seasoned sphere of meat may be made from beef, chicken, pork, turkey or even tofu for a vegetarian meatball.
For cooking means, meatballs can be grilled. baked, fried, or cooked in a crockpot. Recipes can be simple containing only meat, a few seasonings and a simple sauce or complex involving fresh herbs, chopped vegetables, and coatings like bread or cracker crumbs.
Meatballs are coated in a variety of sauces depending on the dish they are supporting. A meatball and gravy recipe may serve as a main course, or a meatball may be incorporated into a casserole to expand the use of the meat and stretch it further through the meal service.
Video Demonstration for Meatball Making
This video offers step by step instructions on one method of making Italian meatballs. A homemade tomato sauce is set to simmer before the meatballs are made. The meatballs are a mixture of ground beef and ground pork. Presoaked bread is added to the meat as a binder. Eggs are added to help hold the mixture together and Romano cheese and spices are added as the meatballs are mixed. Fresh garlic gives the meatballs a distinct flavor
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Can be fried, baked, steamed, or braised
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Meatballs can be used in soups or stews
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Many fast food restaurants sell a meatball sub
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Can be used in sub sandwiches
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Different spices add unique flavors to meatballs. Sauces can be changed for variety in meatball
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Not only Italian- many cuisines insclude a variety of meatball
