Recipe: Tasty Italian meatballs

Italian meatballs.

You can cook Italian meatballs using 10 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Italian meatballs

1. You need 2 lb of 80/20 Ground Beef.
2. It's 1 lb of Ground Italian Sausage.
3. It's 1 bunch of Fresh Italian Parsley.
4. It's 1 cup of Parmesan cheese shredded.
5. Prepare 2 cup of Bread crumbs.
6. It's 4 of Eggs.
7. It's 5 clove of Garlic (large cloves) about 1/2 bulb peeled.
8. You need 2 pinch of Red pepper flakes.
9. It's 2 pinch of Salt.
10. You need 2 pinch of Black pepper.

Italian meatballs instructions

1. Heat oven to 350°F.
2. Put peeled garlic, parsley, eggs into food processor and blend until parsley and garlic are finely chopped.
3. Put meat into large bowl or mixer.
4. Add bread crumbs, blended eggs, parsley, garlic..
5. Add cheese.
6. Add red pepper, salt, black pepper..
7. Mix all ingredients until a meatloaf texture forms. Add more breadcrumb if needed for binding..
8. Take meat mixture and roll in hands until a compact ball is formed about size of a golfball or slightly larger.
9. Place aluminum foil on baking sheet, spray with non stick pam.
10. Place meatballs on sheet about an inch apart.
11. Cook meatballs about 12 min on bottom rack, remove and flip to brown all sides, put back in oven 10 more min..
12. Optional - Drop into your homemade sauce on stove, cover with lid, and set to low for 3 to 4 hours stirring every 20 min..
13. Serve!.