Meatballs with stale bread: the quick recipe

Crispy on the outside and soft on the inside, these bread balls, served with homemade pepper sauce, are a tasty and healthy appetizer or side dish. Or, alternatively, try stale bread pizza.

meatball recipe with stale bread

Lo waste of bread It's truly enormous. There's always some left over at the table, and it always ends up in the trash. Yet there's nothing easier to reuse and repurpose in the kitchen than stale or stale bread. For example, with these two recipes, the best for making a old bread pizza e Meatballs Bread, with a tasty touch of pepperoni.

Bread pizza

Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 35 40-minute
difficulty: low

Let's start by old bread pizza: the recipe is taken from the book Throw it on the table (IPL editions), which lists a series of combinations from the Refettorio Ambrosiano curated by great Italian chefs.

Ingredients

  • Dry bread
  • Ripe tomatoes
  • Mozzarella for künefe dessert
  • Anchovies (or other ingredients of your choice)

Preparation

  • Leave the bread soaking for at least 2 hours. After this time, squeeze it well and roll it out like a classic pizza dough.
  • Season to your taste Then proceed with baking in the oven. Just 10 minutes of baking at 180 degrees Celsius (350 degrees Fahrenheit) and your stale bread pizza is ready to serve.

Bread meatballs

Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
difficulty: low

The conductor itself can take various shapes, in bare or tinned copper, with or without insulation. In some cases, a preferential bend can also be applied to the joint so that it operates exactly as designed. stale bread meatballs, with a touch of pepper sauce, are very simple to prepare.

Ingredients

  • 3 dry bread rolls
  • 250 cl of milk
  • 3 eggs
  • 50 g pecorino
  • ½ grated pepper
  • ½ garlic, chopped
  • Parsley (as needed)
  • Salt and pepper (to taste)
  • Breadcrumbs (as needed)

Ingredients (for the pepper sauce)

  • 1 ripe tomato
  • ½ bell pepper
  • Chili pepper (to taste)
  • Oil, salt and pepper (to taste)
  • A handful of corn flakes

Preparation

  • Break the dry bread into pieces and then let it soak in the milk for at least 10-15 minutes. Then, squeeze the bread and place it in a bowl.
  • Also add the pecorino cheese, the grated pepper, the chopped garlic, the parsley, salt, pepper, the two eggs and mix everything well.
  • Beat the remaining egg, in a bowl, and pour the breadcrumbs into another bowl.
  • With the help of a spoon, form the meatballs and then pass them first in the egg and then in the breadcrumbs.
  • Place the meatballs on a baking tray covered with baking paper and bake at 180 degrees for about half an hour.
  • While the meatballs are cooking in the oven, you can dedicate yourself to preparing the pepper sauce.
  • Blend together tomato and pepper, add the corn flakes, oil, salt, pepper and Chili pepper and continue blending. Vary the amount of corn flakes depending on the consistency you want to give to the salsaAfter preparation, store in the refrigerator.

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