Homemade Italian minced pork meatball recipe: try it out!

In the mood for comfort food? Terry Pomerantz gives us his homemade Italian minced pork meatball recipe.  A great way to warm your heart during colder days.

How to choose your minced pork meat

We are quite lucky in the Province of Quebec, since our cattle farms produce pork meat of exceptional quality!

Minced pork is made only from deboned pork meat, without rind.  Just like beef, extra lean minced pork contains less than 10% fat, lean is less than 17%, medium is less than 23% and regular less than 30%.

For his pork meatball recipe, Terry Pomerantz uses a lean meat, tastier and easier to roll into a ball than the extra lean.

Homemade Italian pork meatball recipe

Instructions

• Heat oven to 350^o F.
• Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper or aluminum foil.
• In a large bowl, mix eggs, onions, Italian spices, oregano, bread crumbs, salt and pepper.
• Add minced pork to the spices and mix.
• Roll meatballs, about the size of a golf ball.
• Cover each pork meatball with flour.

Cooking

• Pour oil into a frying pan.
• Sear flour covered meatballs in hot oil.
• Do not overload frying pan.
• Gently lay the meatballs on a cooking sheet.
• Place in the oven and cook for approximately 15 minutes.
• During this time, heat spaghetti sauce on medium heat.

Serving

• Place meatballs on plates.
• Pour spaghetti sauce over the meatballs.

Serve with egg fettucine and sautéed mushrooms

Another minced pork meatball recipe

To change things up, Terry also really likes this minced pork meatball recipe.

Instructions

• Heat oven to 375^o F.
• Cover a baking sheet with aluminum foil.
• In a bowl, mix onion, bread crumbs, egg, cheese, ketchup, salt and pepper.
• Add minced pork and mix.
• Roll meatballs, about the size of a golf ball.
• Cook in the oven from 15 to 20 minutes

Serve with mashed potatoes and carrots, this pork meatball recipe will quickly become a family favorite!