Rigatoni with corporate meatballs, homemade sauce from crushed tomatoes, smoked mozzarella.

Ground beef is too expensive to even think about making meatballs. So corporate is going to have to work for now.

Cost per person $2.75.

  • seathru@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 day ago

    Ground beef is too expensive to even think about making meatballs.

    Italian sausage costs half of what ground beef does here. And it makes some bangin’ meatballs.

    • FauxPseudo @lemmy.worldOPM
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      1 day ago

      True but it’s not beef. Wife demands beef. So much so that we talked about getting some breeding muscovies today because their meat is very close to beef.

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      1 day ago

      Got any recommendations for pork meatball recipes? I have a grinder that I’ve been itching to bust out over winter.

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        12 hours ago

        i mean you can just make normal meatballs, the meat barely matters and i’m pretty sure it’ll even work fine with soy mince.

        For a specific recipe i know works, here’s bog standard swedish meatballs, you probably want to make a half size batch:

        • 1kg ground meat
        • 3dl milk
        • 150ml breadcrumbs
        • 1 onion, grated or finely diced
        • 2 eggs
        • 10ml salt
        • 2ml black pepper
        • 5ml sugar

        mix together the milk and breadcrumbs in a big bowl and let it sit for 10 minutes, then add the rest and mix it all together really well. Then form into balls and fry, or if you want to be fancy you can form the balls, boil them, THEN fry. That shit is poppin.