Meatballs

I fry them very gently in a bit of oil first. This colours them and firms them as well. I tried putting them straight into the sauce and found the meatballs disintegrated into mush.

I'm another who browns them first to firm them up. The only recipe I use for meatballs involves cooking them on top of a sort of tomato risotto dish that goes in the oven.

Always brown them first, usually by frying them in either olive or coconut oil.

Browning them in an oven would dry them out too much. Yes, brown in a frying pan - you won't need much oil (if any).

I've always browned in a frying pan but all recipes I've looked at on line say in the oven apart from Nigella's.
Do you all make your own balls ? Or buy them ready formed.

Badly worded op sorry

I have to make my own (I'm a coeliac). My favourites are pork,Parmesan,sage,small amount of breadcrumbs and an egg. The other recipe is one of Delia's...meatballs in Goulash sauce.

I make my own. I mix the meat with an egg, seasoning and some grated cheese, which seems to stop them drying out.

While scrolling through channels yesterday, I saw a bit of a Jamie Oliver programme and he was certainly browning them in a frying pan.

My DH makes the best meatballs (according to all the family and friends) ! He browns them in a pan then cooks them in the sauce ( passata) . He is Italian and has had a lot of practice !!?

I brown them in butter and cook them covered, in the oven.

If I brown them in a pan, they often fall apart. My son does them in the oven and makes the sauce separately to pour over after part cooking and this works well.

I brown them in the frying pan, and then add them to the sauce. I never add breadcrumbs to meatballs.

Ikea meatballs all the way !

They make chicken and veggie varieties now too .

Lidls ready cooked ones are lovely, just need warming and sauce or gravy added.

Ikea ones are yummy but our nearest store 40 milmilaway on the other side of the Dartford tunnel, not a journey to be undertaken lightly

Flippin phone......
miles away

Ikea meatballs are very nice and no worry about browning!