Easy Italian Meatballs (Melts In Your Mouth!)

Eleanor Craig

You can serve these Easy Italian Meatballs with spaghetti, on sub rolls, over rice, in tomato soup, in tortellini soup, or even with vegetables.

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Prep Time 20

Cook Time 1

Total Time 1 20

Course Main Course

Cuisine Italian

Servings people

Calories 359 kcal

Ingredients

1 pound ground beef (minced beef) - lean or extra lean
1 medium egg
¼ cup milk
⅓ cup breadcrumbs - Italian style
1 teaspoon Italian herbs (oregano, rosemary, thyme, and sometimes basil and parsley)
½ teaspoon garlic powder
½ cup Parmesan cheese - shredded Parmesan or Parmigiano-Reggiano
1 jar Marinara sauce (tomatoes, garlic, herbs, and onions - pasta sauce in southern hemisphere for Italian seafood dish) - (mine is Ragu chunky tomato, garlic, and onion)

Instructions

Pour half of your spaghetti sauce into the pot (inside the pressure cooker).
Combine all ingredients except spaghetti sauce into a bowl and mix together with your very clean or gloved hands.
Using your ice cream scoop, scoop out a level scoop of the meat mixture and release it into your hand. Gently roll into a ball and place on top of the sauce in your pot.
Continue until all meat has been made into meatballs.
Pour the remaining sauce on top of the meatballs making sure to cover them all.
Place the lid on the pressure cooker and set pressure to high and time to 60 minutes.
After 60 minutes, quick release pressure. Spoon as much (if any) grease off the top of the sauce.
Serve hot.

Notes

1. To make Italian meatball subs, add 3 meatballs to the Italian sub roll. We use Gonnella soft Italian rolls. Top with a spoonful of sauce and shredded Parmesan, Pecorino Romano, and/ or mozzarella.

2. Also, you can spread butter mixed with garlic powder over the inside of your rolls and place them under the broiler to toast before adding your meatballs for an extra layer of delicious flavor.

Nutrition

Calories: 359kcalCarbohydrates: 9gProtein: 29gFat: 22gSaturated Fat: 9gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 9gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 128mgSodium: 430mgPotassium: 418mgFiber: 1gSugar: 2gVitamin A: 210IUVitamin C: 0.3mgCalcium: 216mgIron: 3mg

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