Spicy Pork Meatballs

Name: Spicy Pork Meatballs
Yield: 2 dozen 1 1/2 inch meatballs
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons olive oil; 2 pounds pork shoulder, ground; 1 tablespoon plus 1 tablespoon salt; 4 jarred hot cherry peppers, minced; 1/4 cup hot cherry pepper pickling liquid; 4 Slices fresh white bread, minced; 3 Large eggs

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With just enough spice to tickle the tongue, these balls are the ultimate crowd- pleasers. Whenever we have a large event to cook for, we always bring these. In terms of the meat for these balls, ask your butcher to grind some pork shoulder. It's inexpensive and full of fl avor, and it's a cut we really love. Instead of using bread crumbs, as we do with most meatballs, we use cut- up, soft, fresh white bread. It makes for a lighter meatball.

Level: Easy

Yield: 2 dozen 1 1/2 inch meatballs

Level: Easy

Yield: 2 dozen 1 1/2 inch meatballs

Ingredients

2 tablespoons olive oil

2 pounds pork shoulder, ground

1 tablespoon plus 1 tablespoon salt

4 jarred hot cherry peppers, minced

1/4 cup hot cherry pepper pickling liquid

4 Slices fresh white bread, minced

3 Large eggs

Directions

Preheat the oven to 450degreesF. Drizzle the olive oil into a 9 x 13- inch baking dish and use your hand to evenly coat the entire surface. Set aside. Combine the ground pork, salt, cherry peppers, pickling liquid, bread, and eggs in a large mixing bowl and mix by hand until thoroughly incorporated.
Roll the mixture into round, golf ball-size meatballs (about 11/2 inches), making sure to pack the meat firmly. Place the balls in the prepared baking dish, being careful to line them up snugly and in even rows vertically and horizontally to form a grid. The meatballs should be touching one another.
Roast for 20 minutes, or until the meatballs are firm and cooked through. A meat thermometer inserted into the center of a meatball should read 165degreesF. Allow the meatballs to cool for 5 minutes in the baking dish before serving.