Air Fryer Meatballs – A Stunning Mess

I’m obsessive about my air fryer and have shared means too many air fryer recipes on this website already. However, I’m not finished as a result of these air fryer meatballs are so scrumptious and simple and the right praise to a bowl of pasta and pink sauce.

This air fryer meatball recipe is fairly easy. These will go will with nearly any sauce or gravy you wish to serve them with. However, if you need one thing much more flavorful, strive my stuffing meatballs. I additionally love that whenever you prepare dinner along with your air fryer you possibly can see all of the liquid fats that drains off as they prepare dinner (it is going to be within the backside of the air fryer, beneath the grate). So, it is a lighter possibility for cooking one thing scrumptious that hopefully your complete household will love.

Associated: Undecided what to serve these with? Do this simple vodka sauce and any pasta or gnocchi you’ve got readily available.

Elements

• Floor beef, pork or a combination – see notes
• Italian breadcrumbs
• Milk
• Egg
• Garlic
• Parmesan cheese – the powdery variety is nice for this recipe
• Salt and pepper

If you wish to add extra spices to this combine, you completely can! Some issues to strive may be onion powder, cayenne, chili powder, and even Italian seasoning.

Instructions

Mince the garlic.

In a big bowl, mix all of the components. Combine collectively to create a meatball batter. Use your (clear) arms to type 16 balls, roughly the identical measurement.

Spray your air fryer grate with slightly nonstick spray. Then place the meatballs inside.

Air fry at 400°F (204°C) for 12 minutes. The inner temperature ought to attain 165°F, however you may as well minimize one open to verify that it’s not pink inside (a tiny little bit of pink is OK, however it shouldn’t be uncooked).

Serve heat with pasta and sauce, gravy and mashed potatoes, or no matter else your coronary heart needs.

Suggestions & Notes

• If you’d like, you possibly can add parchment paper to your air fryer. In the event you do, for this recipe I might advocate add some slits or holes to the middle so the surplus fats can drain off to the underside (beneath the grate).
• The skin of those meatballs will probably be nearly crispy, because the air fryer is a superb instrument for, properly, air frying. 🙂 So, these can also make a superb appetizer. However do take care to not overcook them or they’ll grow to be dry.
• I like to make use of a mixture of floor meat for this recipe. I usually use “Boston Burger” floor meat, which is 60% beef and 40% pork and fairly frequent on the grocery retailer I frequent. However any floor meat can work on this recipe! Simply take into account in case you use a extra lean (hen, turkey) floor meat, the vitamin info will fluctuate from those in my recipe card under.

Serving Recommendations

Listed below are some vegetable and different facet dish choices to go along with these air fryer meatballs: