(Italian) Meatballs (from Ralph's Italian Restaurant in Philadelphia, PA)

Name: (italian) meatballs (from ralph's italian restaurant in philadelphia, pa)
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: en
Ingredients: ½ loaf Italian bread; Water (enough to dampen the bread); 1 ½ libra. ground beef, veal and pork (mixed); 5 large garlic cloves (minced) ? Warning, Warning, Warning! Use 5 cloves at your own risk!!); ½ cup Pecorino Romano cheese (grated); 1 tablespoon salt; ¾ tablespoon black pepper; ¼ cup fresh parsley (chopped); 4 cups vegetable oil

Main Dish

6 servings

15 min

35 min

Very Easy

(3.2/5 - 6 votes)
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Ingredients

½ loaf Italian bread
Water (enough to dampen the bread)
1 ½ libra. ground beef, veal and pork (mixed)
5 large garlic cloves (minced) ? Warning, Warning, Warning! Use 5 cloves at your own risk!!)
½ cup Pecorino Romano cheese (grated)
1 tablespoon salt
¾ tablespoon black pepper
¼ cup fresh parsley (chopped)
4 cups vegetable oil

Preparation

Soak bread in water, enough to dampen for 2 hours. Drain the bread of any excess water.
In a large bowl, mix all ingredients together with fingers, making sure everything is mixed very well.
Start to roll into meatballs a little bigger than the size of a golf ball. You should get about 12 to 15 meatballs.
Add 4 cups of oil to a medium size fry pan. Heat oil on medium flame. When oil is hot, add 6 or 7 meatballs to the pan.
Make sure there is room between meatballs for even cooking. Cook on each side for about 3 minutes.
Place meatballs on a brown paper bag to drain off the oil.

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Joyce, 08/02/2021

"Veal" is young beef!!!!!! It is the difference in a young beef calf (veal), and an older beef animal.
Truth be, the ingredients are beef and pork when you ck animal facts. Just like a steak is a steak by many names for beef, but they are all beef.

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John, 14/04/2020

This is not Ralph's recipe, he only uses Pork and Beef and sauteed caramelized garlic, not 5 uncooked cloves

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25/08/2013

Great

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14/03/2020

I just saw a video about Ralph's. They only use beef and pork

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30/05/2014

Excellent