Softest Meatballs Ever

The recipe is a slightly modified version of Tyler's Ultimate. We watched this episode on TV and decided to try the next time we cook meatballs. I must say it is extraordinary soft, and really delicious.



A good meatball should be as soft as possible without crumbling down into pieces and not overcooked. This recipe delivers both.

Ingredients (for the meatballs):
- 500g minced meat (half-fat beef is best)
- 5 slices of white bread
- 1 glass of milk
- 1 big onion
- 3 cloves of garlic
- 1 egg
- parsley
- sunflower oil
- salt
- pepper

Ingredients (for tomato sauce):
- 4 tomatoes
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 1 medium size onion
- 2 cloves of garlic
- Half glass water (boiling hot)
- virgin olive oil
- salt
- pepper

Method (the sauce):
1. Peel the skin off the tomatoes. Mesh them fine.
2. Dice the onion
3. Smash the garlic (use a pinch of salt and olive oil)
4. In a saucer pan, pour enough olive oil, when hot, add onions and garlic
5. When onions turn golden, add the tomato paste and water, mix till paste melts
6. Add meshed tomatoes.
7. Add salt & pepper to taste, mix well, cook for 2 minutes, and set aside.

Method (for the meatballs):
1. Remoeve the crust from the bread slices
2. Put bread in a deep bowl and add milk. Soak all bread in the milk, set aside
3. Dice the onion
4. Smash the garlic (use a pinch of salt and olive oil)
5. Cut a handful of parsley thin
6. In a bowl, add meat, onion, garlic, the egg and parsley
7. Take the bread out of the milk, hold in hand for a few seconds until excess milk goes away, add to the bowl with the other ingredients
8. Add salt and pepper to taste
9. Mix all well using both hands.
10. In a pan, heat enough oil.
11. Make a golf-ball sized round meatball, place on the oil slowly
12. Keep making meatballs and place them on the oil. Once the pan is full, rotate the first, then the next and so on. When 2 sides are brown and crusty, put the meatballs into a deep oven trey.
13. When you slightly cook all these meatballs and place them in the oven trey, pour the tomato sauce on top of them.
14. Cook in 230 degrees Celsius oven (preheated) for 25 minutes

Try them with spaghetti.
Enjoy ;)