These are the best Italian meatballs I’ve made (And I have made a lot). Competition, incredibly juicy and generous size. This recipe serves all you want in classic meatballs.

These homemade Italian meatballs are large, juicy and tender. One pound of land is four generous meatballs. You can serve them like spaghetti with pasta. Homemade pastaor on a plate next to the extra bread with such bread focusI also used the same recipe for our Spaghetti and meatballsWhich uses the same meatball mixture but makes a lot less meatballs.
Our recipe guarantees the perfect texture. They are soft, juicy, tender and not so thick in the middle. They almost melt in your mouth. We don’t even say homemade sauce that is furious. I can’t wait to try this recipe.
The main components
- Ground Beef (85/15) and soil pork. I use this perfect Combo for classic Italian meatballs. The 85/15 beef ratio keeps them juicy, while pork adds wealth and incredibly tenderness.
- Onions and garlic. No Italian dish is complete without them. They add so much to your meatballs.
- Salt crackers and milk. Although many Italian authentic recipes use bread as a connector, I use crushed salt crackers and milk. Adds lightness in salt in salt (they do the same in us) Meatloaf recipe)
- Italian herbs. The combination of dill, Italian spices and parsley injects these meatballs with real Italian flavor. Especially I love dill with this recipe.
- Parkesan cheese. I use salt mixture salt into salt, but I like to spice them with Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese. It adds so much odor.
- Homemade tomato sauce. You can use the store purchased sauce, but try my simple, homemade tomato sauce for a really delicious dish. It’s perfect with these meatballs and incredibly easily. We have included the recipe below. I also love this Homemade red pasta sauceA number

How to make Italian meatballs
This recipe provides incredibly fragrant Italian meatballs, perfect, tender tissue. It starts with salt crackers that are absorbed in milk (my favorite trick to keep a meatball contest). Then we add sautéed onion, garlic, land dill, those who are amazing to Italian herbs, and very cheese minced beef and pork minced. A good mixture with his hands is convinced that all the spices combine.


This recipe is not about small meatballs. We make four giant. Because these meatballs are so big, they stay in the middle of a tender and juicy. For small meatballs, see our Spaghetti and meatball recipewhich use these Italian meatballs as inspiration.


Fast Baking in the oven is delicious crusts to meatballs, keeping them juicy.
While the meatballs are baked, prepare our simple but incredibly fragrant tomato sauce. It is made with beads, garlic, wine, stock, crushed tomatoes and sprinkle with fresh basil. It works beautifully with our meatballs.


Finish, Nestle Thoususty The Partically baked meatballs just sauce. They will finish cooking when wet all that deliciousness. I finish them in the oven, but gently cooked in the stove.


Ways to serve Italian meatballs
- Spaghetti and meatballs – classic. After making your meatballs, remove them from the curtain, then prepare a sauce in the sauce before serving.
- Meatball subsections or slides
- Serve as an independent dish with bread. I love Homemade focus or garlic breadA number
- Lift above high Milk polenta or Homemade Grits: (Non-traditional, I know, but so delicious).


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Great, juicy Italian meatballs are seasoned with Tomato Tomato sauce. Serve these juicy meatballs with spaghetti and make spaghetti and meatballs, or be a little more valid, serve meatballs (called poles in Italy) as some bread with some bread.
Makes 4 maintenance
Watch to make the recipe
You will need
Meatballs
8 ounces (225g) minced beef, use 85/15 or 80/20
8 ounces (225 g) soil pork
4 tablespoons (25 g) saltine cracker crumbs from 8 crackers
1/2 cup Plus 1 tablespoon (135 g) whole milk
1 ½ tablespoon olive oil
1/2 cup (60 g) ground onions
4 cloves of garlic, minced
1 tablespoon of soil dill
1/4 cup (10 g) chopped parsley
6 tablespoons (1.5oz) material crushed Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
3/4 teaspoon of fine sea salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Tomato sauce
1/2 cup (60 g) ground serum
6 cloves of garlic, minced
1/4 teaspoon of Aleppo pepper or crushed red pepper flakes
2 tablespoons of olive oil
1 tablespoon Italian spice
1/4 cup (60 ml) Dry white wine
1/3 cup (80 ml) chicken stock
1 (28oz) can be crushed with tomatoes We love canned crushed tomato basil
1/2 cup (15 g) chopped fresh basil
1 teaspoon fine sea salt
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Directions:
- Meatballs.
1Connect the salt cracking crumbs and milk in a small bowl. Let us sit down.
2Heat 1 ½ tablespoon olive oil large, stove-safe curtain on medium heat. Add onions, garlic and dill. Cook until mitigated, but before they are brown, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from heat.
BookletIn a large bowl, combine minced beef, pork, parsley, cheese, salt, pepper and cooked onion mixture. Add the soaked salt mixture and mix well (hands are best worked).
ThreePre trio 425 ° F (218 ° C). A baking sheet with a slight oil parchment. Form the colol mixture of four large meatballs. Place the baking sheet and bake up to the brown from the top 10 to 12 minutes. At the moment, the meatballs will partially cook.
- Tomato sauce.
1Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil on medium heat, earlier using the same curtain. Add clothes, garlic and Aleppo pepper. Cook until it is softened, 2 to 3 minutes.
2Relax Italian spices on pieces and cook, stirring for 1 minute.
BookletAdd wine and simmer until almost dry. Mix in stock, crushed tomatoes, salt, pepper and fresh basil. Bring a low simmer.
- Finish meatballs.
1Gently overlook partially baked meatballs with sauce. Spoon some sauce on every meatball.
2Finish the stove, cover the curtain and simmer on low heat until the meatballs reach 160 ° F inner (10 to 15 minutes).
BookletOr cook meatballs in the oven (accepted). Bake them in the veil. Do not cover the curtain. Set a 300 ° F (148 ° C). Bake meatballs until they reach a 160 ° F internal temperature. This should last about 10-15 minutes.
Adam and Junny tips
- A mixture of ground beef (for 85/15 juice) and a classic taste is perfect for minced pork. But feel free to mix it with land veal, lamb or Italian sausage.
- Use clean hands to mix meatball mix for the best tissue and everything to be well combined.
- Our homemade tomato sauce is very simple and absolutely raises these meatballs. If you are on time, select a high quality shop, go to Marinara.
- To ensure food safety and amazing tissue, make a meatball until you reach 160 ° F using a meat thermometer. Cooking this temperature can make meatballs less tender.
- For more juicy meatballs, go to larger sizes, four recipes are our favorite.
- The food facts below are evaluated.
Nutrition by service
The amount of serving
1 large meatballs (recipe makes 4)
Compound
Scintend
494
Compound
Total fat
31.4 g
Compound
Saturated fat
9.6 g
Compound
Cholesterol
86 mg
Compound
Sodium
922mg
Compound
Carbohydrate
21.4 g
Compound
Dietary fiber
4.1 g
Compound
General sugar
7.2 g
Compound
Protein
30.7 g

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