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Meatballs: 30 recipes that even grandmothers like – Italian Cuisine

Meatball skewers with sugar peas and beans

Pea meatballs with strawberry mayonnaise

Pistachio chicken meatballs with fried aubergines

Herb and quinoa meatballs with pecorino cream

Veal meatballs and carrots with leek sauce

Lamb meatballs and chickpeas with rosemary

Chicken and tuna meatballs with cucunci mayonnaise

The first testimony written on the meatballs dates back only to XV century. Here they were called "purpette" in Libro de Arte Coquinaria of the cook of the then Camerlengo of Aquileia. Born for recycle boiled meat leftovers, have remained on the crest of the wave of the most popular dishes giving space to the more classic versions that see them meat and fried, but also stewed, based on vegetables, fish or baked in the oven.

A simple dish, indeed very simple, prepared differently in every home. There are those who do not renounce bread soaked in milk, those who love to flavor them with minced garlic and parsley, and those who mix them with boiled vegetables like herbs or spinach. IS if you are thinking that the original and traditional recipe for meatballs was the one grandma used to cook, you are right. Meatballs are a family secret, all over the world!

Very beloved in Sweden where they have taken the place of national dish, they are one of the key dishes of the kitchen of Shanghai. Here we will find them mainly prepared with a pork base and steamed or boiled. Extremely popular also in Indonesia, where they are called basko, are prepared with beef and chicken and served in soup along with noodles. In Iran they even change their name depending on the cooking and are especially loved in the fried version, as in Brazil is Portugal: here they are called almôndegas and are usually served with rice.
In short, we could go around the world going from one meatball to another, since every country seems to have a special version of this delight.

Let's start with 25 ideas based on meat, vegetables and fish: they will be a good starting point to find the perfect meatball!

The 10 recipes that grandmothers cook better than mothers – Italian Cuisine

Mothers don't mind it, it is well known that grandmothers are unbeatable on some traditional dishes, those that require long preparations, hours and hours with the pot on the stove and the flame at minimum. But the wait is always worth it

How many memories we have linked to ours grandparents and grandmothers! They have us spoiled as only they could do, stuffing us with tasty foods, telling us funny anecdotes and sometimes less happy experiences, with shining eyes and a smile full of love always on the face. They made us discover realities that have disappeared because the world changes, but i grandparents do not forget and pass on.

Grandparents have become a true salvation, today more than ever. In a cultural context where mom and dad work late, they come into play as gods guardian angels, who watch over the grandchildren, make them play and have fun. When they leave school, their eyes light up when they see their grandson running towards him. It is a full-time job for grandparents, a job that cannot be learned, but that one feels inside.

Today is the grandparents' day, and we want to thank them for the unconditional good they give to their grandchildren. So we thought, a little for fun a little for nostalgia, to make a survey in the editorial office asking which dishes our grandmothers cooked better than our mothers. Inevitably, so many memories have come back to mind, moments lived between the kitchen and the dining table, with dishes tied together in double strings to the different local traditions of our places of origin.

The Sabina came to mind Meatloaf, Angela has appointed without hesitation the gnocchi, Laura recalled the scrippelle timbale, typically Abruzzo. Rita had no doubts about the Tripe grandmother's; Virginia of Sicilian origins, began with i buccellati, a Christmas cake that carries in the heart. The boiled meatballs are instead the memory of Maria Vittoria, while Riccardo told us that on Sunday morning he watched his grandmother do the le noodles. I could not name that braised in Barolo; Francesca, she thought about it a little and finally mentioned the salmi; Maddalena joyfully mentioned the minestrone of his grandfather, prepared with many good vegetables, carefully cut and cleaned. These are just some of the recipes that came to mind, what are they?

Here are the 10 recipes that grandmothers cook better than mothers

Traditional dishes, including smiles of grandmothers and childhood memories – Italian Cuisine

The sounds, tastes and smells of the kitchen. But also the colors of the vegetables broken on the cutting board, the quick hands of the grandmothers and the mothers who move between stoves and trays, the tables for the holidays. Here are the traditional recipes, able to bring to light our most precious memories

Who doesn't have at least one dish tied to a special memory? The flavors, the smells and the sounds of the kitchen they are able to bring back to our mind distant images, guarded like precious jewels in that casket that is our mind.

Here, then, is the smell of breakfast that reached us, children, still wrapped in blankets. Or the irresistible smell of roast meat, ragout, a tart that came to visit us while we were playing in the corridor with our sisters and brothers. And did you spend your Sunday mornings in the chair to help your mother knead the dumplings or noodles? Don't tell us that you never did it, that you are boys or girls.
We also talked about the sounds, or noises, of the kitchen. Even those, when we were little, heard them and we recognized them from one room to another. The pots that passed from the stove to the work table and vice versa, the rapid beating of the knife against the chopping board for chopping vegetables, or that of the trays that beat between them while agile female hands covered them with delicacies; and, again, the tinkling of glasses and plates while setting the table, perhaps on some special occasion: a birthday, Christmas, Easter.
And how can we forget the summer, the sun that burned pleasantly on our shoulders, the skin pulled by sea salt, the lunches on the beach, where the scent of saltiness was mixed with lasagna or cannelloni, dishes prepared the day before and now dished before our hungry little eyes, with their hair still wet from the sea stuck to their foreheads, surrounded by aunts, cousins, grandparents, all cheerful in the mid-August air.

It is to this memory that we want to inspire today to advise you on some recipes that, we hope, awaken in you the memories of loved ones, of places of the heart, of happy moments.

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