meatballs ??????

Question

does anyone have a good recipe
one that will work and hold them toghter
mine fell apart again?
thanks

Answer 1

Chipotle Meatballs Recipe

Chipotle chiles are jalapeño peppers that have been smoked and dried. They are often served in an adobo sauce made with chiles, garlic, vinegar, onions and tomatoes. We came across this recipe for Chipotle Meatballs recently in the New York Times (a corrected version of the recipe) and it sounded so good we gave it a whirl. The verdict? Excellent! Particularly good served with plain rice or tortillas. Quite spicy, best accompanied by something cool - sour cream, salad. It has been added to our list of new favorites.

3 slices bacon in 1-inch pieces
3 garlic cloves, peeled
2 large eggs
½ cup bread crumbs
Salt
1 ¼ pounds ground pork
½ cup (loosely packed) coarsely chopped mint leaves, more for garnish
1 28-ounce can diced tomatoes (preferably fire-roasted), drained of all but ¼ cup juice
1 or 2 canned chipotle chilies in adobo, stemmed, seeded and sauce reserved
1 teaspoon dried oregano
About 1½ cups beef or chicken broth.

1 Heat oven to 450 degrees. In a food processor, combine bacon and 1 garlic clove. Process until finely chopped. Add eggs, bread crumbs and 1 teaspoon salt. Pulse several times to combine thoroughly, then add pork and mint. Pulse a few more times until well combined but not a paste. Remove meat from processor.

2 With wet hands, form meat into about 16 plum-size balls and space them out in a 13-by-9-inch baking dish. Bake until lightly browned, about 15 minutes.

3 While meatballs bake, combine tomatoes, ¼ cup tomato juice, chipotles, 1 to 2 tablespoons chipotle sauce, oregano, remaining garlic cloves (cut in half) and ½ teaspoon salt in a blender or food processor. Process to a smooth purée.

4 When meatballs are ready, spoon off rendered fat from baking dish, then pour tomato mixture on top, covering meatballs evenly. Bake until sauce has thickened somewhat, 15 to 20 minutes.

5 Heat broth in a small saucepan. Divide meatballs among four dinner plates, leaving sauce behind. Stir enough broth into sauce to give it a spoonable consistency. Taste and season with salt, if necessary. Spoon sauce over meatballs, decorate with extra mint leaves, if you wish, and serve.

Serves four.



Notes:
The word "chipotle" actually comes from the Nahuatl words chil (chile pepper) and poctli (smoke).

Answer 2

Use 2 lbs of ground beef (80/20)
1 heaping tablespoon of grated parmesan cheese
1 cup Progresso Italian bread crumbs
3 eggs
2 tablespoons Basil flakes
2 tablespoons Parsley flakes
1 teaspoon Garlic powder
2 level teaspoons of salt

Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees F. Mix thoroughly by hand and form into balls about the size of a golfball. Place on an UNgreased baking sheet about 1" apart from each other. Bake in the 375 degree oven about 20-30 minutes or until the meatballs are evenly browned.

Remove the meatballs and place them into your tomato sauce. Heat through and serve.

Yields approximately 50-60 golfball sized meatballs

Answer 3

I think meatball soup. Meatball sandwiches are too difficult to eat.

Answer 4

Yeh, I have the best.(and simplest)
1lb ground meat
tbl spoon of garlic powder
2 cups of white bread cut up into very tiny cubes. (2-3 slices?)
A little salt and some generous pepper.
1 egg-----mix with hands well
FRY in a pan with a good bit of oil (1/8") deep. Get oil fairly hot first so outside can get a little crisp.....You got it!
I use about 3!! Tablespoons of Garlic Powder.---Start with 2 and see how you like them...Fry until nice and brown all around.
It's a little more work, but fresh white bread cut up in teeny cubes is much better than canned bread crumbs!..Only takes a minute.

Answer 5

Add some tomato paste, ground beef crackers if you like, parmasaen cheese, bell peppers, and onions and then roll them into balls. Then you have to put them into a pan lightly coated with olive oil or regular oil or possibly none because of the beef fats and keep moving them around but not constantly just until they are a dark brown and until each side is fully cooked.

Answer 6

Pound ground beef - preferably the less fat type.
2 eggs - large
Garlic to taste
Cup and half of breadcrumbs- I prefer to use stale french or Italian bread..if I do that though I use two cups.
Adobo to taste

Roll - cook at 350 for 45 to 1 hour.

I will sometimes add a cup of Romano or Parmesan cheese to it...if you do that reduce the real bread crumbs by half and the pre packaged kind by a quarter.

Answer 7

Toast white or wheat bread on a toaster. Then with your hands separate it into little pieces. Then mix with the ground beef and egg (and all your favorites condiments). Use your hands to make the mixture. Then you will have an excellent meatballs.

Answer 8

well first of all how do you cook them? do not fry them and do not cook them in the oven.

when i make them i like top put in bread crumbs, onion, parsley, red pepper, black pepper, garlic, and an egg. i cant remember everything exactly because i havent made meatballs in a while.

now i cook them in sauce. i make my own tomato sauce and when that cooks you just put the meatballs in there. thats how i cook them. they have never fallen apart on me. i dont even put eggs in them . i hate eggs, they smell so bad, disgusting. i just wrote eggs down because anyone else should probably put an egg in.

Answer 9

No thanks. I had a job making 200lbs. of meatballs 3 times a week. But add an egg or two and progresso bread crumbs. Thats called a binder.

Answer 10

Dip in beaten eggs to hold together, otherwise potato is good binding agent. Mix with mashed potatoes