Last Updated on June 24, 2021 by Ellen Christian
Homemade meatballs are really one of the easiest things to make. I was honestly shocked the first time I saw a bag of frozen meatballs in the grocery store. Homemade meatballs literally take about 15 minutes to make start to finish. These mini meatballs (as found in Venezia in Cucina) (see it on Amazon) only take about 10 minutes since they are smaller in size. If you are that pressed for time after work when preparing dinner, make the meat mixture up in the morning, cover it, and keep it in the refrigerator until you need to make dinner that evening.
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Mini Meatballs – Polpettine di Carne
I generally make our meatballs from ground beef or a mixture of ground beef and ground turkey. Homemade meatballs can be made from any ground meat combination including ground chicken, ground beef, ground turkey, ground pork, or ground veal or lamb. It really depends on the flavor you want and what you have in the freezer to use. Chicken and turkey will be lower fat choices but I don’t like them as the only ground meat used.
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I had my son help me make the meatballs. I am hoping to ensure that he doesn’t become one of those guys that can’t cook. I don’t think he was that impressed with making the meatballs but at least I know he can do it if he needs to. We used these meatballs to top spaghetti but you could easily use them in a meatball sub or slice them and put them on top of a pizza.
The recipe called for extra virgin olive oil. I picked up a sample of the new Pompeian OlivExtra Premium Mediterranean Blend at BlogHer Food. It’s a blend of Canola Oil, Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Grapeseed Oil. It worked quite well for frying the meatballs.
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I made these this weekend! I served them like you did–pasta and red sauce. yum! I made the whole recipe,so we now have a fewin the freezer for later in the week. Thanks again!
So glad you liked it!
Ellen,
I’m visiting from Friday Food Frenzy. Your meatballs look delicious. i don’t have a specific recipe for meatballs, since I’ve been making them all my life and it’s second nature.
Annamaria
Thanks for stopping by. I find this one works well for me but I do change it occasionally.
Love meatballs, especially with a touch of parsley!
One of my favorite ways to enjoy them!
I’ve never been a fan of meatballs because the ones I’ve had were just…..meat! I don’t like biting into a big ball of just meat, but these look delicious!!
These really are amazing & nice and moist too!
Phenomenal. I haven’t made meatballs in a long time, but I made them quite differently when I did. I am going to use your recipe, albeit with ground turkey and chicken mixed. I had no idea I was ‘sposed to cook them in a skillet and oil with breadcrumbs on them. I always baked them. I am doing this for my kids – they are going to love it!
Elizabeth T, Early Rise
You can definitely bake them if you’d like. I find that coating them with breadcrumbs helps keep them moist.
This looks delicious!
Thanks, Kelly! It really was!
I have honestly never tried to make home made meatballs because I figured it would he hard.But I see it is not!!
Definitely not hard at all!
OOh wow! Those really look incredible, moist and tender! Nothing like I’ve made before, ha! I will have to give this a try!
LOL They were amazing!
Good, I am looking forward to making them. Mine are usually hard and dry in case you didn’t guess from my comment above, lol
The breadcrumbs definitely help hold in the moisture!
Can we say MMM, MMM Good! I have never tried frying meatball either I am going to try this and I hope I do it right. LOL
You will do great!
These look yummy – and simple to make, too! I wonder how they would turn our using turkey meatballs?!
I would think they would turn out fine as long as they weren’t too lean.
I have never tried frying meatballs but they look delicious!
We generally bake them but this recipe was amazing!
I love mini meatballs. They are just so wonderful. Your son looks like he is having fun
It was fun to work with him in the kitchen!
I love meatballs. This looks like an authentic recipe.
Meatballs are one of my favorite spaghetti additions!
love. looks great, ellen. i think i can handle this.
Thanks, Brett! You definitely can!
I think I had forgotten meatballs! (How can you forget something like that?) These sound really delicious…and easy. Thanks…pinned.
Thanks, Mary! They came out really good!