I love making meatballs. Meatballs are the food that most reminds me of home-cooking. I usually prepare them in their classic form, with tomato sauce (olive oil, chopped onion, chopped canned tomatoes, a tad bit sugar, salt and pepper). When I make them in the tomato sauce, I make the sauce in a saucepan and sauté the meatballs in a separate pan, and only after sautéing do I add the meatballs to the simmering sauce. This time around, it was already late at night and I was quite tired (yeah- I went the lazy route- so…), so I decided to skip the whole two-pot deal and decided to combine the sautéing and sauce in one single pan. And that my friends, is the way I got these delicious, easy to make, lemony meatballs (that go great with rice or mashed potatoes).
Ingredients for 30 meatballs:
1½ pounds ground beef
1 medium onion, finely chopped
⅓ cup breadcrumbs
2 eggs
Zest from one lemon
¼ cup fresh mint, coarsely chopped
Salt and fresh ground pepper
For sautéing:
⅓ cup canola...
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