The Best Meatball Recipe Ever

The Best Meatball Recipe Ever

from billyparisi.com
Appetizer
60 min
40 servings
106 kcal / serving

This Homemade Italian Meatball Recipe is jam-packed with beef, pork, cheese, bread, herbs, and a secret procedure, making it the best.

Ingredients

  • ⅝loaf of french or italian bread submerged in cold water
  • 2 smallpeeled and small diced yellow onion
  • 4finely minced cloves of garlic
  • 1 ½ pounds90/10 ground sirloin
  • 1 ½ poundsground pork
  • 4 largeeggs
  • ¼ cupchopped fresh parsley
  • 1 ½ tablespoonschopped fresh rosemary
  • 3 tablespoonschopped fresh basil
  • 1heaping cup of grated parmigiano reggiano cheese
  • 1 ½ tablespoonscoarse salt and ½ teaspoon pepper
  • 1 pounduncooked spaghetti noodles
  • ½batch of pomodoro sauce

Directions

  1. 1

    Preheat the oven 425°.

  2. 2

    Add the bread to a large bowl or pan and completely submerge it in water. See the video above.

  3. 3

    Squeeze as much liquid out of the water-soaked bread as possible, and add to a large bowl along with all of the meatball ingredients and mix until completely combined.

  4. 4

    Next, form golf-ball-sized meatballs and place them 1” apart on cookie sheet trays lined with parchment paper.

  5. 5

    Bake them at 425° for 25 to 30 minutes or until they begin to get a little brown on top and are cooked throughout. Serve.

  6. 6

    Optional: With 10 minutes left in the cooking process add the spaghetti to a large pot of boiling salted water and cook until al dente, about 7-8 minutes. Be sure to stir occasionally so that the pasta does not stick.

  7. 7

    Remove the meatballs from the oven, place the desired serving amount for 4 people into the sauce, and coat in the sauce. Remove and briefly set them aside.

  8. 8

    Add the cooked spaghetti to the sauce and toss to coat.

  9. 9

    Serve with meatballs over top and garnish with Parmigiano Reggiano cheese and parsley.