Receta The 12 Best Meatball Recipes of All Time
New
York loves its meatballs. There are now
no less than 6 Meatball Shops alone and on the Upper West Side, if you can’t
get into the one there, Nicky Meatball’s “Polpette” (that’s meatball in
Italian) is a couple doors away. The
meatball exists in some form or other in virtually every cuisine in the
world. They’re made of every conceivable
protein from chicken to buffalo and there are a sizeable number of recipes with
no meat in the balls at all. Instead
- they’re made of mushrooms or walnuts or even just bread. In the last five years, meatballs have been a
- staple on Chewing the Fat. I’ve made
Vietnamese Meatballs, Moroccan Meatballs, Sicillian Meatballs. I’ve made them
into Stroganoff and into Soup. And their
appeal has never waned. They’re among
the most popular posts on the blog. So I thought it would be fun to collect
links to our 12 Best! Which one will you
try first? In ascending order, here
goes:
12. This recipe hasn’t been on the
site long enough to catch up to some of the old-timers. Nevertheless, Seamus
Mullen’s glorious Spanish-inflected lamb meatballs come onto the top 12 list
and they’re so good, I am sure they’ll climb from there.
11. Also at something of a
disadvantage due to its relative newness, this Italian American Classic is from
the kitchen of the mother of one of New York’s hottest chefs.
#10. The first of four recipes from
the same part of the world, North Africa, number 10 offers the recipe with a
choice of ingredients from beef to ground turkey or, as I made this luscious
stew, lamb.
#9. From the other side of the
Mediterranean come these meatballs made Sicillian with the addition of pine
nuts and currants and the use of lots of garlic.
#8. Back home again, these are
would be an all-American meatball were it not for the way we served them. Healthy as all get out, just like the West
where they came from.
#7. Hopscotching across the
Atlantic again, we land in Morocco for the first of three takes on Morocco’s
idea of a meatball. This one singles out
a pound of ground beef and takes it from there.
#5. This is actually a personal
favorite so it’s not surprising it comes in where it does—in the top 5. Showcasing the genius of New York’s The
Meatball Shop, it’s garnered four hundred more page views than #6.
#4. We’re back on the road to
Morocco. This time it’s for a family
that yields the tenderest meatball of the bunch. And the way it’s served is not only different
but it was a major taste discovery for me.
#3. Here’s a meatball that replaces
one key ingredient in that classic dinner party dish of the 50s, Beef
Stroganoff and makes it an easy weeknight meal.
#2. It’s never a surprise when an
Ina Garten recipe draws hundreds of readers.
But this one with its tender chicken meat balls, continues to astonish me with its staying power. It still
gets hits almost every single day.
#1. I guess it shouldn’t be a
surprise that Morocco scores the number one position among meatball
recipes. What is a surprise is that our
winner is also the 7th most viewed recipe in the history of the
blog.