Meatballs!!!

[HollyBearsMom]

I jsut made a huge batch!! Some for tonight, some to freeze.

So while I kow the debate between my friends and I will never be settled on how to cook meatballs how do you cook yours?

• Pan fried
• Oven baked
• Cooked in the sauce
• Some kind of combo

I do a combo. I bake mine but only until very rare but browned. I like the they way browned ones look and taste but think finishing in the sauce makes the sauce even yummier and keeps the meatballs moist.

How about you??

Also- what meat do you use??

I prefer a venison, pork and beef combo but when I am out of venison I do pork, turkey and beef.

I love meatballs!!

[StephandOwen]

I'm like you- bake and then finish in sauce.

I used to just do beef. Now we're trying to eat healthier so it's turkey and beef mixture.

[sewchris2642]

All beef and pan fried in coconut oil. We usually serve with gravy and rice.

[JessicaS]

I bake them and then finish in sauce or I freeze them and then cook in sauce.


I usually do turkey and beef, sometimes I add lamb or pork.

[HollyBearsMom]

Your right- the ones I freeze I freeze plain, not cooked in sauce. And then I throw the frozen ones in the sauce to cook thru.

My house smells so good right now!!

[Jenifer76]

Bake. Then add to sauce afterwards.

[Tera_&_Gibson]

I bake them then add to sauce

[sahmmie]

I used to use beef or sometimes a mixture of beef and turkey, but now I use grain fed bison. Bake in oven till nearly done then simmer in crock pot of sauce for several hours.

[mamadelbosque]

I bake and then everyone can add as many as they like to their spaghetti I've always used beef, but I think I'm going to try using deer next time

[flminivanmama]

I fry them in a cast iron skillet - I feel like the same amount of grease comes off when I bake them but it's messier and harder to get off - when I fry them I can pick them up with a slotted spoon and they stay neat looking... then I drain them off on a towel and then add to the sauce.

[cristeen]

I use beef or lamb or buffalo, whatever I have on hand. And I pan fry in cast iron. I'm not usually serving them with a cooked sauce though. On occasion, when I make curried meatballs, then they get fried before adding the curry sauce.

[sewchris2642]

Out of curiousity, how many is a lot? I'd be doing nothing but making/cooking meatballs all day to get enough to freeze. As it is, the meatballs take up both large burners on the stove and both cast iron chicken frier skillets for one meal. We eat a double batch in one meal--50-60 metballs--with little or nothing left over.

[HollyBearsMom]

Well there are only 3 of us so 60 would be enough for dinner with 50 left over to freeze!

That said I made about 45-50. We each had about 3-4 meatballs on pasta topped with roasted eggplant/tomato sauce. That's a lot of food!

I baked them in the oven on 2 jelly roll pans. I put about 20 into my large Le Crueset pot that had the sauce in it to finish cooking. The rest I let cool on a rack before freezing.

The leftover sauce and meatballs will be our lunch tommorrow.

[columbusmomma]

I bake them and finish in sauce too, sometimes even for a few hours on low in the crockpot. I usually use just ground beef but sometimes bison, or bison beef mixture.

[CookiePie]

I pan fry to brown & finish in the sauce. I freeze after browning, then I'll add them to my sauce still frozen.

[Adamsmama]

I bake mine in the oven. This reminded me that I want to make meatballs or meatloaf this week!

[pjs]

fried in a cast iron pan, then added to sauce for extra yumminess. Always 50/50 beef/pork

[Rosehip]

Originally Posted by HollyBearsMom

Your right- the ones I freeze I freeze plain, not cooked in sauce. And then I throw the frozen ones in the sauce to cook thru.

My house smells so good right now!!

This.

I usually use some combo of beef/pork and occasionally turkey. I also generally use oatmeal instead of breadcrumbs.

[sewchris2642]

Yeah, the number of people you feed for a meal does matter. So does the ages. I used to always make 25-30 meatballs for a meal. But that was when we were a family of 2 adults and up to 3-4 kids. Now I cook for 4 adults, one almost 12 yo boy, 3 kids (ages 1-4), and one 82 yo grandmother (well great grandmother, I'm now the grandmother). So a double batch of everything at each meal.

[somasomi]

anyone have a good recipe they would like to share? preferable a beef/turkey combo.

thanks!