fried meatballs
Author Elizabeth
Yield 4
The following recipe is vague, because really, it’s all about using leftovers. So you can play around with the amounts.
Ingredients
- 1 pound boiled meat, with any vegetables that went into the broth too (carrot, potato)
- 1 slice of day old bread, soaked in milk
- 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup chopped parsley
- 1/4 tsp grated nutmeg
- salt, pepper
- Bread crumbs
- oil for frying
Instructions
- Make sure to get all of the bones out of your boiled meats. Place the meat in a bowl of a food processor, and pulse until the meat is ground and approaching the paste stage.
- Place the meat in a bowl and add t, cheese, egg, parsley and seasonings. Squeeze the milk out of the bread and add that too, crumbling it up. Using your hands, mix well.
- Form into small, 2 1/2 inch patties. Coat each patty in breadcrumbs and set aside.
- Pour oil (I used half olive oil and half sunflower seed oil) into a large frying pan, so that it comes up about 1 inch from the bottom. Heat until hot, and add the patties. You’ll probably have to do this in several batches, since you don’t want to crowd them. Flip them half way through, to brown evenly on both side. They should only take about 6 minutes total to cook through. (remember, the meat is already cooked).
- As they are finished, place them on a paper-towel covered plate.
- Serve while hot. I served them with a crisp radicchio salad and home made mayonnaise.
Recipe by Elizabeth Minchilli at https://www.elizabethminchilli.com/2016/01/fried-meatballs/