Meatballs With Parmesan and Sausage.

Submitted by Caithi Romeo

"Tradtional, Italian style, juicy meatballs. This can be cooked with beef, turky, chicken etc etc mince. It just depends on what your tastes are! This is a fab recipe!Serve it with a simple Sauce ( may I suggest my simple Italian Sauce ) as the meatballs have a flavour all of their own."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 15mins
• Ingredients: 14
• Serves: 25

ingredients

• 300 g premium ground beef
• 150 g sweet Italian sausage links, cases removed
• 2 1⁄2 slices bread
• 2 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese
• 1 teaspoon minced sweet onions or 1 teaspoon white onion
• 1 teaspoon oregano, chopped
• 1 teaspoon basil, chopped
• 1⁄2 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 1 teaspoon flat-leaf Italian parsley
• 1 teaspoon garlic
• salt
• 1 egg
• olive oil

directions

1. In a bowl soak the bread in the milk until it soaks up most of milk.
2. Once bread has done this, remove from bowl,disgard milk, roughly brake bread apart and place all of the other ingredients in a bowl with the bread and mix together.
3. Roll the mixture into small/medium sized balls with your hands.
4. Brown meat balls in pan with oil then place into oven for 10 minutes at 225 degrees.
5. Add to a great Italian sauce and simmer for 60 minutes.

Reviews

[ladyfingers]

Since the meat mixture was in grams, I wasn't sure how much to use, so just guessed using a 1:2 ratio. These meatballs were tasty--more of a meatloaf texture and flavor.