Buffalo Meatballs

Buffalo meatballs are tasty and delicious.  I was looking in a cooking magazine this month and found a recipe for traditional meatballs.  I had some ground buffalo meat in the refrigerator and decided to take a chance and made up this new recipe.  I made the meatballs for dinner with spaghetti but my twins immediately took the small meatballs and ran to the counter and placed them in a hot dog bun.  They said they were mini-hamburgers and my husband said "no you just made a meatball sub."  Try these buffalo meatballs tonight and see how you like them?

Buffalo Meatballs:
Makes:  20 meatballs

2 pieces of wheat sandwich bread, crust removed and cut into small pieces
1/8 cup milk
1 egg
2 teaspoons dried basil or 1 teaspoon fresh chopped basil
2 garlic cloves, peeled and pressed
1# ground sausage
1/2# ground buffalo meat
1/2 teaspoon salt
fresh pepper
1 1/2 cups Italian bread crumbs

1.  In a large bowl, place the milk and cut up pieces of bread. Allow the bread to soak up the milk.  Add the egg, basil, garlic, sausage meat, buffalo meat, salt and pepper to the bread mixture and mix together.  Place the bread crumbs in a small bowl.  Use your hands to make small quarter size meatballs, roll the meatball in the bread crumbs.  Repeat until all the meatballs have been made.

Rolling The Meatballs In The Bread Crumbs

2.  Working in batches, add the meatballs to a hot greased skilled.  Don't over crowd the pan or the meatballs will not brown evenly.  Brown the meatballs for 4 minutes on one side then turn to brown on the other side.  Serve buffalo meatballs with hot tomato sauce over spaghetti or a meatball sub.