Mother In Laws Meatballs Recipes

Steps:

• 1. Soak the bread in milk(or water).Mix to a mush consistency.Add the beaten eggs and seasonings and mix well. Then add the ground beef.Incorporate the beef with the bread mixture and begin to form the meatballs to about a golf ball size or larger. I usually get about 24-30 meatballs using three pound of ground beef.
• 2. Baking method: Grease a long shallow pan with oil and place the meatballs on the pan taking care not to crowd them too much. Frying method: My mother-in -law would never think to do anything but fry them in a black cast iron pan with enough oil to come up to about 1/4 of an inch on the meatball.More work but they come out delicious! If you choose this method, fry just long enough to get a brown crust on the outside, turning them in the frypan. I gradually moved on to bake them to make them a bit more healthy, using less oil.Oven temp to 400 degrees for 20 minutes.
• 3. Now, this is another method I have changed as my mother in law would start her "Sunday Gravy" about an hour before the meatballs and then put the meatballs in the sauce to simmer and flavor the sauce.I like using the crockpot with a good quality jar sauce or simply a can of crushed tomatoes(or two if making extra gravy), and a small can of tomato paste,a few basil leaves and adding about 2 "paste cans" full of water.
• 4. Let them simmer for about 3 hours on low. That's the magic!

Steps:

• Meatballs:.
• Mix ground beef, onion, egg, bread, oatmeal, milk, salt and pepper in a large bowl.
• Roll into balls.
• Brown meatballs in a skillet; these are very moist meatballs, making them a bit tricky to brown in a skillet. I usually just push them around a bit and don't brown completely.
• Alternatively, meatballs could be browned briefly in the oven in a nonstick pan at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for about 10 minutes. Tthey don't need to be cooked through since they will be cooked in the sauce. I've never done it this way, so just watch them so they just brown rather than cook all the way and get dried out.
• Place browned meatballs in baking dish.
• Sauce:.
• Mix ketchup, brown sugar, soy sauce, mustard, water together.
• Pour sauce over meatballs.
• Bake uncovered at 350 degrees Fahrenheit until meatballs are cooked through, about 30 minutes.
• Serve over rice.

Steps:

• Mix together, but lastly add the baking powder.
• Roll into balls, place in medium heated pan with a little oil, not to hot, on the stove top.
• Turn carefully a few times until done. ( the time will depend on the size of the balls, but generally about 15 to a max of 25 minutes.).