Meatballs

Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 02:27PM
happy hour kitchen in Beef, Main Dishes, Pork

I hope someday my aunt will forgive me for spilling the secret recipe with the World Wide Web. I tweaked her classic a bit to protect some of her secrets and make them my own!

Ingredients

• 1 lb lean ground beef
• ½ lb ground pork
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup milk (any kind)
• 1 med-large onion or 2 small onions
• ½ cup unflavored breadcrumbs
• ½ cup grated parmesan cheese
• ¼ tsp salt
• ¼ tsp pepper
• ½ tsp garlic powder
• ½ cup raisins

Tools

• cutting board
• sharp knife
• spatula
• rubber spatula
• baking sheet (2 if you have them)
• med-large mixing bowl
• measuring spoons
• measuring cups

Step-by-Step

Makes 20 Meatballs

• Preheat oven to 350
• In mixing bowl, add ground beef and pork, 2 beaten eggs, and 1 cup milk.
• Put the mixing bowl aside.
• Finely chop the onion(s) and add to the meat mixture.
  • HOW TO: Slice and Chop and Onion
  • If larger chop, you might want to cook onions for a few mins in a frying pan with a drizzle of olive oil to soften the pieces of onion before adding to the meat mixture.
• Add ½ cup parmesan, ¼ tsp salt, ¼ tsp pepper, and ½ tsp garlic powder to meat mixture.
• Mix with rubber spatula until well mixed.
• Add ½ cup unflavored breadcrumbs.
• Lastly, and only if your crew likes them, add ½ cup raisins.
• If you really don’t think the meatballs will hold, slowly
• Make about 20 slightly smaller than tennis ball sized meatballs and put in oven for 20 mins at 350 degrees.
• Rotate baking sheet (or switch sheets if you’re using 2).
• Cook for another 15 mins.
• Cool for 10 mins and enjoy!
• Don’t worry - if your meatball is a bit pink inside, it’s not necessarily that they’re undercooked the pork looks pinker than the beef.

Article originally appeared on Happy Hour Kitchen (http://happyhourkitchen.com/).