Meatballs from Boiled Meat
1 hour 30 min. Recipe Yield:
25-30 pcs Difficulty:
Medium recipe
Meatballs from boiled meat - a recipe for Italian cuisine, meatballs are cooked from any meat, you can take beef, pork or chicken meat. If there is no parmesan, it can be replaced with any low-fat hard cheese. In Italy, such meatballs (polpette) are cooked in every family, and, of course, every housewife adds her own “zest” to them. Polpette di lesso is what it sounds like in Italian, a wonderful and simple recipe from Tuscany.
Recipe Ingredients
Cooking Recipe
To cook recipe of Italian cuisine meatballs from boiled meat, wash potatoes and boil in their skins. While still hot, peel potatoes and mash until smooth.
Boil beef, pork or chicken. Settle all the cartilage, skin and fat, and then cut. You need to cut the meat into small cubes, but not too much so that you do not get mashed potatoes.
Wash the parsley, remove the twigs, only the leaves are needed. Chop the parsley leaves along with the garlic.
Cheese, preferably Parmesan, grate on a fine grater. If there is no parmesan, you can use any low-fat hard cheese.
In a deep bowl, mix potatoes, meat, parsley with garlic and grated cheese. Add eggs, salt, pepper and mix well until smooth.
From the prepared minced meat, form small meatballs with your hands and roll them in breadcrumbs. To make the stuffing less sticky to your hands, soak your hands in cold water before shaping.
Pour vegetable oil into a preheated pan and lay out the prepared meatballs. Fry meatballs on both sides until golden brown. Serve polpette hot or cold, they are good in any form.