Italian Autumn Meatballs
A community recipe by deborinhaNot tested or verified by Nigella.com
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To make the meatballs you need to mix the beef, eggs, cheese, breadcrumbs and parsley with the salt into a dough then you need to roll into ballsthe size of golf balls. You should make around 15. Chop the onion and stir-fry in a pan with a knob of butter adding the mushrooms when brown, stir for a minute then add 6 of the meatballs and season with salt and pepper. When the meat has browned and the juice from the onion and mushrooms has thickened add milk and cream and season a little more to taste. Simmer cream till you see the tops of the mushrooms. Serve hot with bread and lots of red wine. Freeze the rest of the meatballs.
To make the meatballs you need to mix the beef, eggs, cheese, breadcrumbs and parsley with the salt into a dough then you need to roll into ballsthe size of golf balls. You should make around 15. Chop the onion and stir-fry in a pan with a knob of butter adding the mushrooms when brown, stir for a minute then add 6 of the meatballs and season with salt and pepper. When the meat has browned and the juice from the onion and mushrooms has thickened add milk and cream and season a little more to taste. Simmer cream till you see the tops of the mushrooms. Serve hot with bread and lots of red wine. Freeze the rest of the meatballs.
Introduction
Great beefy supper to have with crusty garlic bread and red wine.
Great beefy supper to have with crusty garlic bread and red wine.
Ingredients
Serves: 6
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Cups
- 1 kilogram minced beef
- 3 medium eggs
- 125 grams breadcrumbs
- 3 tablespoons fresh parsley
- 1 pinch of salt
- grated Parmesan
- ½ onion (chopped)
- 300 grams mushrooms (or porcini chopped)
- 250 millilitres single cream
- 5 tablespoons milk
- nutmeg (or paprika to taste)
- 2⅕ pounds ground beef
- 3 medium eggs
- 4⅖ ounces breadcrumbs
- 3 tablespoons fresh parsley
- 1 pinch of salt
- grated Parmesan
- ½ onion (chopped)
- 10⅗ ounces mushrooms (or porcini chopped)
- 9 fluid ounces heavy cream
- 5 tablespoons milk
- nutmeg (or paprika to taste)
Method
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