Easy and Delicious Three Meat Meatballs
They’re easy to make, they're tender, they're full of flavour and they’ll be perfect with your favourite tomato sauce. Delicious Italian cuisine.
Servings: 25 to 30 meatballs
Ingredients
- 2 slices white sliced bread, with crust edges cut off
- 1/4 cup milk
- .75 lbs (340g) ground beef chuck
- .75 lbs (340g) lean ground pork
- .75 lbs (340g) white ground veal
- 1 tbsp coarse sea salt (2 tsp if using fine salt)
- 1 tsp freshly ground black pepper
- 1 medium cooking onion, finely diced
- 4 cloves garlic, finely diced
- 1/2 cup fresh parsley, chopped
- 1/4 cup fresh basil, chopped
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 8 cups your favourite tomato sauce (we used our own homemade Tomato Sauce 2.0 | Instant Pot)
Instructions
- Place a large wide pan on the stove and pour in the tomato sauce.
- Heat the pan and sauce on medium.
- Use a small (or regular) food processor to tear apart the bread into very small pieces, like bread large crumbs.
- Place the shredded bread and milk in a small bowl and mix, to coat the bread completely. Let sit for 5 minutes.
- In a large bowl, place the ground meats, salt, ground pepper, onion, garlic, parsley, basil, olive oil and soaked bread pieces.
- Toss all the ingredients with your (washed) hands to mix well.
- Use a soup spoon or small cookie dough scoop to measure out potions of the meat mixture.
- Roll the portions of meat between your hands to form meat "balls".
- Place each meatball in the sauce while forming them. It might feel like a tight squeeze by the end, but don't worry, they'll shrink a bit while cooking.
- Once all the meatball mix is used up and all the meatballs are in the sauce, raise the heat to medium high until the sauce starts to boil/bubble.
- Lower the heat to medium and cover. Cook / simmer for 30 minutes.
- Your meatballs are ready to serve with your favourite pasta, in a sandwich or on their own as an appetizer.