good morning youtube all right i've got a big pot of fresh puduska sauce kinda like a marinara and
there's not a whole lot better than that unless you're gonna make meatballs stuffing with cheese
deep fry them oh yeah now we're talking comfort food let's cook y'all we got a family to feed
okay we're gonna make some meatballs all right so i have approximately one onion um
ricky has a tendency he comes over here and cooks and then he'll put half an
onion in the refrigerator and then forgets about it and so i had three
portions of three different onions in the fridge so it's about an onion okay there we go
all right so we're gonna whiz this up with about four cloves one two got three good sized cloves
and two little weenie cloves so about four cloves of garlic um one of the reasons why
we are putting everything together ahead like this before we add it to our meat mixture
is because it can get real tough your meatballs can get super tough if you over mix it
so we're not going to over mix one of the best ways to do that is to combine
anything you're going to add into the meat combine it over here first that way you can only
barely mix it once you've added the meat all right so
we're going to add a couple things to this
we're going to add a couple teaspoons of sugar 2 teaspoons of black pepper
a tablespoon of oregano dried oregano two teaspoons of kosher salt
about a cup of bread crumbs and two eggs
i almost never remember
this time i did remember crack your eggs into something else so you make sure you're not
getting shells in there man that'll make me mad all right now once this is nice and even
we're gonna add enough of this
to our mixture over here
i often make a little too much of the whatever i'm mixing into meatballs or meatloaf or whatever
i do all right so i got a couple pounds of ground beef if you really want the absolute best this is
one of those do it i say and not what i'm doing i had ground beef and this is what i need to use up
normally i would go get um pound of ground pork i love ground pork
so i'm going to start with most of our mixture we're just going to
number all right so like i said if you over mix ground beef ground meat of any kind
it will end up tough
this is why you don't see you usually don't see meatloaf being made
or meatballs being made in a food processor
the absolute best way to do that to mix this is by hand okay
boom all right i'm gonna wash up i'm gonna grab some cheese i have some vegetable shortening
heating on the stove i'm actually to do most of these in the deep fryer but i'm
going to show you how to do it on the stove too so let me wash up and meet you back here
all right so i've got all the elements of a breading station set up over here
so a couple of cups of flour and two eggs and a quarter cup of buttermilk
a couple of cups of panko breadcrumbs and breadcrumbs over there all right so you just whisk
up your eggs and buttermilk together and most of this is simply going to be an assembly line
so you can measure out
if you have a little scale the battery died online of course but the big thing
is that you want to make sure that everything is kind of consistent
in kind of a chunk of garlic kind of consistent as far as size okay and so i'll use some way
to make sure that everything i'm doing is roughly the same size because we're going to
do the first one we always do when you're making meatballs you always do the first one is a test
and you're going to measure your time make sure your oil is sufficiently hot
all those things okay so the first thing i do is simply measure out rough
balls i was watching a great food truck race the other day and it was
the one up in alaska and i had the meatballs versus the tasty balls
they kept cracking themselves up yeah i understand okay so you don't have to be you know super
precious but you do want some consistency in size just because it helps you get everything
cooked correctly at the same doneness at the same time look at that perfect okay
so i'm going to go through and i'm going to show you the first one
so string cheese and i cut each string cheese into four pieces and we make kind of a flattened patty
roll that puppy up
boom and then it goes into the flour
and then into the egg wash
okay
don't unroll it
and then once it's out of the egg wash right into the panko breadcrumbs
now i'm going to do the rest of these
in stages
but this is what you're after okay and then we're going right into our hot oil
until it's golden brown on all sides if you go into the deep fryer you're probably going
to have about five minutes that make sure that the meat is cooked all the way through
your cheese is beautiful and melty okay right now this is what we've got shear bliss
okay make sure you're not getting remember i just said we had a test batch
i did these first they're almost too dark
not quite almost all right so you want to give them enough time don't let your oil get too dark
or too hot you want to give them enough time to get that ground beef cooked all the way through
and your mozzarella piece in the middle won't absolutely get melty if you use a
fresh mozzarella instead you know sometimes you can find those fresh mozzarella that's packed
with those little those little balls
if you want the absolute center to be gooey really gooey
use those instead of a string cheese but string cheese is easy to work with
over here
i have a nice big pot of fresh put nesca sauce which you could also use uh marinara of course
um now i can't find a ladle there we go all right so to serve these
honestly my kids tend to stand around just eating them i had to chase joey off
joey was chasing meatballs
and this
hot you have tongs use your tongs
that's just about perfect okay i know that this is just about perfect because
yeah we talked about that test one
and here i was over there having a good time eating my test meatball
oh lord y'all that's so good and so decadent there you have it cheesy stuffed meatballs
you