All Purpose Freezer Meatballs

"Having frozen dry meatballs is handier than pockets in a shirt. From subs to spaghetti/with they are another one of those things that make cooking well for one possible. This is a conglomeration of a number of recipes that seems to work."
 
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Ready In:
45mins
Ingredients:
8
Yields:
12 balls

ingredients

  • 1 lb fine ground beef (At least 85%. Even better grind your own.)
  • 1 medium yellow onion, cut to fit through the grinder
  • 12 cup panko breadcrumbs or 1/2 cup fine unseasoned breadcrumbs (plus some to roll them in)
  • 1 small egg
  • 1 teaspoon powdered ginger
  • 1 teaspoon allspice
  • 1 tablespoon old fashioned tasty and smelly blackstrap/sulphered molasses
  • salt, to taste as you would a meat loaf.
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directions

  • I mix the Panko ginger allspice salt and egg in a small bowl.
  • Ginger, allspice, and Molasses MAY and likely SHOULD be increased Run it all, with the beef, through the FINE die on your food grinder.
  • If you do not have a grinder, purchase the beef fine grind, at least twice through the grinder.
  • And chop the onion fine in your food processor.
  • I'm looking here for a very dense end product.
  • Mix well by hand.
  • Form into no-larger-than-pingpong ball size.
  • Roll lightly in that excess Panko or bread crumbs I forgot to tell you to put in a plate.
  • Place on a grill rack, Hopefully fine grate enough so they don't fall through.
  • Oven at 400 (preheat).
  • Bake about 20 min OR until that instant thermometer reads 145+.
  • Let them cool completely and put what you're not going to use now in a freezer bag.
  • That extra roll in Panko keeps them loose in the bag.
  • For use?
  • Put the balls and some (jarred) pasta sauce, gravy, whatever you fancy in the microwave to heat.
  • Place in/on bun, spaghetti, hash browned or mashed potatoes, rice, or whatever the spirit moves you to.
  • It's a handy meal-in-a-hurry.
  • Enjoy and let me know any other uses you can find.
  • T.

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  1. Made a batch of these last night as well as some of carlas both were excellant.
     
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May 2005: T. Woolfe recently passed away. He will be greatly missed by his friends at Recipezaar. -- Recipezaar Editor ***************************************************** Well lessee. I'm a retired, post 65 male live-alone, self taught but been cooking most of my life, wrote a cookbook for friends http://www.heywired.org/TIMM/cookwoof.htm Favorite cooking books Cookwise by Shirley Corriher, an old Joy of Cooking, Jeff Smiths The Frugal Gourmet, Julia & Jacques Cooking at Home, and a couple of those private printings. A Word on How I feel about RATEINGS. I reserve that fifth star for SUPRISE ME purposes. The new combination. The Idea that I haven't seen before. The spark that elevates a recipie from the ordinary-with-variations. If I don't seem to give a lot of 5s that's why. A 4 is a great taste.
 
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