How to Make Italian Meatballs (Authentic) 

“How’s your balls? Obviously not good bc you searched for this.” I’m crying 😂 Love this! I am going to try it this week

I'm Black and I am obsessed with authentic Italian meatballs. I'm so thankful for this video 🙏🏽🔥 I spend too much money at the restaurants

My parents too were off the boat from Italy, and I prefer the old authentic Italian cooking. My Nona taught me the old ways. ❤

Made these today and they were killer, cheers mate. Really appreciate you writing up the ingredients list in the description too

I'm about to cook these and put them along with Chef Boiardis original spaghetti recipe, and I'll update them after I try it out! Thanks for the video!

I followed your recipe and my meatballs came out great! Thanks so much

How did you keep a straight face during this intro? 😂😂 you almost cracked a smile.

Thank You Sir, for your families recipe

First-time watcher - hysterical opener!

just found you, This is what our Aunt Bella used for sauce CENTO Hard to find but nothing better if im making sauce which we do every Sunday I find CENTO Crushed tomatoes.. Aunt Bella came home from Italy every 3 to 4 years to PA what a change this was!! Thanks for bringing back the good stuff!!

You have incredible balls!

Excellent recipe, perfect blend of liquid to dry ratio. I was having trouble with my balls and your guidance along with the recipe fixed it, now I no longer will have meatballs that fall apart when frying!!! Honestly this is the perfect ratio, thank you and new subscriber. I did add the meatballs to my sauce to simmer for an hour till service and my Grandmother always added a bit of fennel in her balls and so I do the same just to keep my Grandma at the table.

My goodness man, I wish I found your channel a lifetime ago of searching for great balls! I’m as straight as they come, but damn you have phenomenal looking balls!! Thank you so much for sharing your recipes with us.

Made the meatballs 2 weeks ago into a sandwich. Wife and kiddos absolutely loved them. Sunday sauce going down today

This is the exact way my Mom made meatballs. The only difference is she would grate breadcrumbs from old Italian bread she kept from the Sunday before. She also only used Romano cheese. I didn't know about Parmesan until I was about 10 years old. My dad had a green can of Kraft cheese. I still recall asking him if that was peckerwood cheese. We also called it sauce not gravy.

I make my balls the same way, but I use Locatelli Pecorino Romano for cheese and milk for moisture. Water has no flavor, so I use milk. My family, however, doesn't use any moisture or only water if it needs it. Being up north, they have access to great Italian bread, which they purchase nearly daily. Whatever is leftover, they dry and make bread crumbs...

GEEZ, I really like this guy!

“Don’t worry about it”. I love your personality 😁

Never Trust a skinny chief well done both ways Yummos

I have been working on my balls and haven’t found the right recipe. Will try your recipe. It looks good.

This the best food channel ! Love your recipes !! Thank you 😁

I make them the same way. Lately I've been buying meat in bulk and cutting it myself. The past couple batches of meatballs I've made were from beef and pork I ground up. I make a more coarse grind. This has made a big different in texture and moisture. I've had some in restaurants where the meat was very finely ground and the balls so dense that they were hard to cut. The course grind makes them hold together well while cooking, yet they are also juicy, tender and easy to cut. Just wondering.... have you made fried carduni (the stalks)? My Mom's side of the family has always made it, but my Dad's side said they used to feed them to the pigs. haha! I pick them whenever I can since they grow all over my property. Flour, egg wash, bread crumbs, and fried in olive oil. If you pick them young, they're very tender. Delicious!

Fantastico Paisano. Mangiare a tutti.

I found ur meatball video yay!

I’m making balls now 🤗

Another great one. You ever do shrimp parmesan?

Why do our faces always gotta itch right after we start mixing meatballs or meatloaf by hand? 😂. I thought it was just me!!

I make meatballs regularly and I use mushrooms 🍄 to keep moisture in them I think it is a cheat

Sorry… left my smoke smokn… my balls are ok, could be better! Haven’t seen the light in a bit, we ain’t gotta go there… ok. Love ya

Of course Italian-American or anything-American recipes will change. Ingredient availability will change. 50 years ago you could prob get good stuff but unfortunately our health has been sold in the name of profit here in America and theres a lot of garbage. I have a sister (i say she lives keto not does keto because shes been doing it 7 years) one of the few carbs you'll find in her pantry is durum wheat italian pasta...most us pasta is grown from dwarf wheat...its a hole rabbit hole (iykyk) but it truly is better pasta...you can taste it. Even the package tells you REAL pasta will take some time to cook.

Is panko breadcrumbs okay the plain ones?

My meatballs tend to turn out a little dry and tough. I will try adding water like you do. I also may be cooking them in the sauce too long. How long to you simmer yours?

did you remove the garlic seed ???

so you over mix the meat,

The first time I asked my Italian grandmother how to make something... "Yeah, but how much garlic, Grandma?" She was like "Enough, but don't use too much." This, it turns out, is the only way to measure ingredients in Italian food. Every recipe is basically just people guessing what the imperial measurement of "a handful" or "a good amount" is. In my opinion. you have to cook a few times and "listen to the ancestors" to dial in an Italian American recipe. Also it's sauce not gravy. I think post-Sopranos the whole world is trying to pretend like it was always called gravy. It wasn't.

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Tutto bene

Don't know where description is. Thanks for not telling us as you made them. You were zero help🤧

My balls are fine I just dont think ive ever tried to make legit meat balls. Ive made them once or twice a few years ago but not with breadcrumbs or anything, not a legit attempt...just scrap meat after cooking something else

Haha you look so bored! Dinner soon, cheer up! 😂

No onions?

Godfather! Use stale Italian bread soaked in milk instead of bread crumbs and water! Wassamatter you?

I use 30%-50% ground pork in mine. Never dry and I personally like the pork flavor in them. I also put in a little olive oil.

Bread crumbs? Wtf use fresh bread and milk!

Personal questions

Sauce never gravy

Speak louder in your videos on please

Too Much Talking Not Enough Instructing How Boil / Baking / Frying ???

This guy talked to much🤓

I left when he said "gravy". It's not gravy

You talk a lot instead of cooking.

Kosher? Are you an Italian Jew?

"Thank you sir, heres a handshake. Yes, thank you sir for shaking my hand while i just said i would shake your hand while you shake me hand and we both say thank you at the same time, then at a different time while we shake hands again for no reason". This was the intro