meatball recipe? baked in oven not fried....

anyone make meatballs in the oven and not fried?
I would love a recipe
TIA

Re: meatball recipe? baked in oven not fried....

I just use my usual meatball recipe and bake them at 375. I prefer them baked for some reason.

My recipe is nothing special. I use lean ground beef, hot italian sausage and sweet sausage (not in casing), reggiano, fresh parsley, minced garlic, chopped onion, egg, breadcrumbs and salt and pepper. Then I mix it up, shape it and bake it! We like it!

Re: meatball recipe? baked in oven not fried....

Preheat the oven to 400 and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

Put one onion and handful of fresh italian parsley into your mini prep and chop (I do it this way because it's like grating the onion into mush basically... or you can just actually grate the onion and chop the parsley). Then I take a one-cup measure and fill it about 1/3 will breadcrumbs and 2/3 with freshly grated parm. Put the onion, parsley, breadcrumbs, and parm into a bowl, and add 1 egg, a big squirt of ketchup, a few cloves of chopped garlic, and a sprinkle of red pepper flakes and mix them all together until they're combined really well. Then add in 1/2 lb of ground beef and 1/2 lb of ground veal... and mix them until they're just combined (don't overwork the meat). Shape into meatballs and bake for about 15 minutes.

You can also take fresh mozzarella and cube it... then poke a hole into each meatball and stick a cube of mozz in there (reform the meatball after so it's completely covered) - and it's a good little surprise!

ETA: Oops - add salt & pepper in there too!

Message edited 10/16/2009 4:08:01 PM.

Re: meatball recipe? baked in oven not fried....

bump....this is the recipe I was talking about....sooooo good!!!