Wrap the crackers in a tea towel and smash up until fine, breaking up any big bits with your hands, then tip into a large bowl. I have to admit I made these a mashup of your phenomenal baked turkey meatballs ( of which I am a huge fan) and cooked pancetta and onion into the pork/ beef mixture. Ree swaps out unwieldy strands of spaghetti for rigatoni to capture more sauce in each bite of this Italian-American favorite.
In any case, making a tender meatball relies on a few basic principles: First there’s ratio, and about 20 percent of the meat mix should be fat. Made this for dinner- 1/2 organic pork, 1/2 grass fed beef- doubled the recipe and cooked in my own homemade sauce from my own canned tomatoes- delicious.
We’re a British family living in Copenhagen, Denmark and I just fancied making something new”, and came …