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Minestrone pasta soup with pork and ricotta meatballs is a meal in a bowl.

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Roll into flavour: 15 marvellous meatball recipes to cook this long weekend

Let the good times roll with this collection of crowd-pleasers, starring this chunky vegie-packed minestrone bobbing with tender pork and ricotta meatballs.

15 recipes
If you are unable to source fontina cheese substitute with gruyère.
EASY

Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s ausage and fontina-baked rigatoni

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
RecipeTin Eats’ spaghetti meatball soup.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ spaghetti meatball soup

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
Meatball subs with chimichurri.
EASY

Chimichurri meatball sub

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Minestrone pasta soup with pork and ricotta meatballs.
EASY

Minestrone pasta soup with pork and ricotta meatballs

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Serve these oven-baked meatballs with cheesy garlic bread.
EASY

Danielle Alvarez’s oven-baked meatballs in a rich tomato sauce (with cheesy roasted-garlic bread)

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Danielle Alvarez
This perfectly warming midweek meal uses mostly pantry ingredients.
EASY

Raid the pantry for these creamy braised beans with lamb meatballs

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
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Danielle Alvarez’s Italian wedding soup.
EASY

Italian wedding soup with meatballs and short pasta

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Garlic meatball bucatini.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s garlic meatball bucatini

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Spicy pork and spinach meatball subs.
EASY

Neil Perry’s spicy pork and spinach meatball subs

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Chicken polpette with ricotta and currants
EASY

Chicken and ricotta polpette (meatballs) with brown butter and crispy sage

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Karen Martini
Adam Liaw's cheesy-pleaser meatball lasagne.

Adam Liaw’s meatball lasagne

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Eat these meatballs straight from the tray or stuffed into pita pockets.
EASY

Spiced lamb meatball traybake with chickpeas and sumac feta

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
RecipeTin Eats’ smoky Spanish meatballs in chorizo sauce.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats’ smoky Spanish meatballs in chorizo sauce

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • RecipeTin Eats
Neil Perry's Japanese-style chicken meatballs.
EASY

Neil Perry’s Japanese-style chicken meatballs

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Meatballs in chipotle sauce.

Neil Perry’s meatballs in chipotle sauce

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry