General meatball thread

Mix in 2 lbs ground beef, 1/4th cup bread crumbs, 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce. I usually do 80/20 ground beef, if you want it leaner, it will be drier.

For the sauce after sauteing your meat balls, de-glaze the cast iron pan (your a fag if you don't use cast iron btw) with about a half cup of red wine. Add a few heaping spoon fulls of sour cream after de-glazing and about 2 tbs. of Worcestershire. If you want a thinner sauce, you can add heavy cream. Thicker you can add corn starch. You can also add salt/pepper if you wish to your personal liking it in or not. Its a very adjustable sauce for adding any spices that you like.

Meatballs are boffo

>>7215687
I'm poster
>>7215664
Also, I don't really think "finnish" meatballs has a specific recipe. Lots include eggs in the meat, or none, some has cream, or butter, or etc etc in the recipe. I think its a dish that can have a lot of combinations of ingredients based on the family/town/restaurant that makes it. The only things that matter is that its beef balls with a white sauce. You'd actually love to experiment with a whole ton of different combinations. My recipe makes it more of a brownish due to the red wine, but it makes it imo silkier with a nice taste. My personal wine choice is Mogen David which is a very wet red concord that gives max flavour after the alch is bubbled off.

Cream cheese in meatballs? Good? Terrible?

>>7215765
I doubt they would brown properly but if you ensured that the cream cheese wouldn't leak out, should be good.

What makes Finnish meatballs Finnish? Is it just the sauce?

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Scandinavian meatballs aren't really that great.

t. Central European living in Norway

>>7215820
Boooooooo

>>7215664
are those cuckballs?

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anyone tried these greek meatballs?
they are mixed with grated potatoes and fried so its like half meatball half hash brown

>>7216156
No but it sounds based