Italian Meatballs

Yield: 80 meatballs with sauce

Ingredients:

5 lbs. Bulk Italian sausage, sweet w/ fennel

5 lbs. Ground beef

1 ~20" baguette, cut in small cubes

4 cups milk, 2%

2 Tablespoons oregano, Greek

1 1/2 lbs. (3cups) Parmesan cheese, grated fine

8 eggs

2 Tablespoons salt, Kosher

pepper, ground, black

Method:

Preheat oven 350ºF convection, 375ºF bake

1. Place the sausage and beef in a large bowl.

2. In a medium sized bowl, combine milk and bread. Allow to sit for 15 minutes and the bread has soaked up the majority of the milk.

3. Combine the bread and milk mixture with the sausage, beef, oregano, Parmesan cheese, eggs, salt and pepper. Mix the mixture well with your hands, until all the ingredients are well incorporated.

4. Using a 1 Tablespoon ice cream scoop, scoop the mixture into meatballs, place them on a parchment lined sheet pan. 

5. Bake the meat balls in the preheated oven until done, about 15 minutes. Repeat the process until all your meatballs are formed and baked.

6. Simmer meatballs in Salty Fig's Meatball Sauce Recipe
, cool and divide into zip lock bags and freeze or serve to a large group.