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bread crumbs milk onions ground round ground pork egg nutmeg salt freshly ground black pepper flat-leafed parsley olive oil including juice garlic oregano flat-leafed parsley
Viewed: 40 - Published at: 5 years agoIngredients
- 1 cup fine fresh bread crumbs
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 2 medium onions
- 2 1/2 pounds ground round
- 1 1/2 pounds ground pork
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
- 2 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 3/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1/4 cup minced fresh flat-leafed parsley leaves
- about 1/2 cup olive oil for browning meatballs
- a 28- to 32-ounce can whole plum tomatoes including juice
- 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- 1 1/2 teaspoons dried oregano, crumbled
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh flat-leafed parsley leaves
Method
- In a large bowl soak bread crumbs in milk 10 minutes.
- Finely chop onions.
- Add onions and remaining meatball ingredients to bread crumb mixture and with your hands blend together until just combined well (do not overmix).
- Form mixture into walnut-size balls and arrange on large trays or baking sheets.
- In a large heavy skillet heat 2 tablespoons oil over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking and brown meatballs in batches without crowding, shaking skillet to maintain round shape and adding remaining oil as necessary.
- Transfer meatballs as browned (and any browned onions that fall from meatballs) with a slotted spoon to a 7- to 8-quart heavy kettle.
- In a large sieve set over a bowl drain tomatoes, reserving juice, and chop.
- To meatballs add chopped tomatoes with reserved juice, garlic, and oregano and simmer, covered, 30 minutes.
- Transfer meatballs with a slotted spoon to a bowl and keep warm, loosely covered with foil.
- Briskly simmer sauce until reduced to about 2 cups, about 25 minutes.
- Season sauce with salt and pepper and gently stir in meatballs.
- (Meatballs in sauce may be made 3 days ahead and cooled completely, uncovered, before being chilled, covered.
- Reheat meatballs in sauce before serving.)
- Gently stir parsley into meatballs and sauce.
