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Friday, July 26, 2013

Meatballs Madness (I) Meatballs with Ricotta and Sun-dried Tomatoes



Did you ever think about who was the first person who thought of saying meatball madness? Who ever saw an indefinite amount of meatballs and screamed: This is madness! I keep imagining some 17th century dude, in his tight pants, being absolutely bedazzled by the sight of meatballs. So, with that image in mind, I decided I need to have  reason to say meatball madness, thereforeI had to cook some tasty  beef meatballs. 



I used: 
  • 500 grams of minced beef, 
  • 1 medium onion, finely diced, 
  • 3 cloves of garlic, 
  • 150 grams of ricotta cheese,  
  • 100 grams of sun dried tomatoes and about 3 tbs of the oil they were kept in, 
  • parsley,  
  • thyme, 
  • 2 eggs, 
  • flour, 
  • salt, 
  • pepper, 
  • some oil for cooking. 


Just mix all the ingredients together really well, except the flour. 



Make sure the onion, tomatoes, garlic and herbs are all finely chopped,  so you can mix then evenly.  Add the flour to thicken the composition, I used around 150 grams, both for putting it in the meat and for lightly flouring the meatballs. Heat up some olive oil on medium high heat, and fry you golf ball size meatballs until golden brown on all sides,  shouldn't take long. 

As a side dish, I just boiled some delicious,  fresh green beans and seasoned them as mentioned here

This meatball recipe, with  definite Italian influences is light, fresh and a delicious way to bring some ordinary and common meatballs to the next level. The ricotta make them moist and very light. There is definitely gonna be a next time cooking these.



Enjoy,

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