Cooking from Romagna: Meat dishes

Ingredients: 100 gms lard, onion, chicken, rabbit, salt & pepper, tomatoes, Ѕ glass white wine

Preparation: Sauté the chopped onion in the lard. Remove the onion, and add the chicken and rabbit cut into pieces. Salt and cook. When the meat is browned, add the onion from before and the diced tomatoes. Bring to a boil, add the glass of white wine and continue boiling until the liquid is reduced.

Ingredients: 1 kg. mutton, 2 cloves of garlic, 1 onion, 1 tblsp. lard, Ѕ glass of dry white wine, 250 gms of tomatoes

Preparation: Sauté the garlic and chopped onion in the lard (or butter). Add the meat and brown it for a few minutes, then add the white wine and continue cooking until the wine has evaporated. Then add the peeled, chopped and seedless tomatoes, salt and pepper and continue to cook over a moderate heat, stirring occasionally.

Ingredients: 6 veal shanks, 1 carrot, 1 stalk of celery, 1 sprig of parsley, Ѕ onion, 50 gms of butter, sage, broth

Preparation: Sauté the chopped onion and vegetables in the butter. Coat the veal shanks with flour and brown them in the sautйed mixture. Add a few sage leaves, the white wine and a pinch of salt. While the white wine evaporates, add ladles of hot stock to prevent the meat from drying. Cooking time is about 1 hour.

Ingredients: leftovers (veal, pork, chicken, etc.), 1 egg, breadcrumbs, grated parmesan cheese (more cheese than bread), a bit of milk, garlic and parsley finely chopped, salt to taste

Preparation: Mince about 300 gms of any leftover meats, add 1 egg, about 50 gms of parmesan, the breadcrumbs moistened in milk, the garlic, parsley and salt. Mix the ingredients by hand and form rather small and slightly flattened balls. Dip them into beaten egg and breadcrumbs. Fry them in abundant hot oil, place them on brown paper to absorb the excess oil and serve immediately.

The meat balls may also be cooked in a sautéd mixture of onion, lard, tomato sauce, salt, pepper, nutmeg and a little water.

Fried meatballs
Mix all ingredients together and form balls. Coat a large skillet with non-stick olive oil spray. Fry meatballs for about 10 minutes or until nice and brown.

Stewed meatballs
Mix beef, garlic powder, 1 teaspoon of salt, the parsley, herbs, egg, and bread crumbs. Shape beef mixture into 12 meatballs and brown on all sides in a skillet in hot oil. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Add meatballs. Cover and cook on low 6 to 8 hours.