11 Meatball Recipes For A Beefed-Up Tailgate
Rib-sticking recipes with meatballs for tailgating
Much as we love all manners of chips and dip, we're not going to get full snacking on them. Not the kind of full we're going for, anyway. Meat is required, and meatballs are awesome, easy to make in bulk and go on a sandwich or slider, on mashed potatoes, with rice, on top of the proverbial spaghetti (how covered with cheese is up to you as an adult). The possibilities are truly endless, especially with 11 of our favorite meatball recipes for tailgating all rounded up in one place.
Click here for the recipe: Mexican Meatball Soup Recipe
Albondigas is a very traditional Mexican meatball soup. Next time you want the perfect cold weather meal, try a hefty serving of albondiga soup, a tall pile of freshly made corn tortillas, and a little salsa casera. Aye que bueno.
Photo: Jeanine Thurston
Paprika Lamb Meatballs Recipe
Paprika's lamb meatballs are a very simple dish — a few simple ingredients that make a perfect meal. The meatballs are a very popular dish at the restaurant and are made every day.
Photo: Michael Tulipan
Meatball Sliders Recipe
These meatball sliders are as easy to make as sculpting orbs of meat gets, they're easy to make a ton of, and we guarantee that every meat-lover out there will plow through half a dozen before admitting defeat.
Photo: Mark Shaw
Cheese-Stuffed Meatballs Recipe
I love the look of surprise on my friends' faces when they cut into one of these gems and a lava floe of mozzarella ensues. These meatballs are fantastic doused in tomato sauce atop the pasta of your choice, but where they really shine is in a meatball sub. Isn't that a beautiful thought?
Photo: Mark Shaw
Spicy Meatball Recipe
Here's a simple spicy meatball recipe that you can make for yourself, for a dinner party, or if you want to put some heat into that romantic dinner.
Photo: Lindsay Hunt
Num Pang Veal Meatball Sandwich
We hit up the chefs at NYC favorite Num Pang for their recipe for a Cambodian veal meatball sandwich. If you're looking to expand your repertoire or just throw your taste buds a curveball, this is a great way to do it.
Marcus Samuelsson's Swedish Meatballs Recipe
My grandmother Helga was the one who taught me how to cook — traditional Swedish meatballs before anything else. I serve them at Red Rooster, where they're the most popular dish on the menu.
Photo: Mahir Hossein
Mediterranean Lamb Meatballs Recipe
The Meatball Shop in NYC's Lower East Side, is a hip and cozy little restaurant which serves nothing but meatballs. And ice cream sandwiches. Strange but true. This is a version of their lamb meatballs that you can make it home.
Kefta, Tomato And Egg Tagine Recipe
This dish is made with mini-meatballs called kefta, which stay juicy cooked in a dish with a cumin and cinnamon-spiced tomato sauce surrounded by baked eggs. Serve hot with a loaf of crusty bread, there will be a lot of dipping involved.
Photo: David Loftus
Cantonese Spiced Pork Meatball Soup
Chinese chefs grind far more pork than any other meat for various dumplings, savory cakes, meatballs and stuffed vegetables, and the meatballs bound with rice, egg, and watercress for this spicy Cantonese soup have to be some of the most delectable ever conceived.
Photo: akosihub on Flickr
Wine-Stained Gemelli & Sausage Meatballs Recipe
Here's some simple cooking logic that will take you far in life: pasta cooks in liquid, wine is a liquid, therefore pasta can cook in wine.This just may be the only exception to only cooking with what you'd drink.
Photo: Quentin Bacon
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