Gino D'Acampo Makes Mamma Alba's Meatballs! | This Morning

my mother used to make it admissible for us when I was growing up every week because it was easier for her to do she she used to be like a doctor for a baby when day in you're born like a midwife yes so she used to go work very early and say that I'm late at night so late at night when she come excuse to make the meat work because it is one of these dishes that when you make in the day before again it's like a lasagna you make the day before the day after when you warm them up is even better yeah yeah so everybody at home that is busy all those busy mum and dad if you want to make meatballs is fantastic to reheat today after really really tasting great secret English secret my mum secret was about the mincemeat okay whenever people make meat well they usually use one type of means she always said to me gee if you use two of them you get the best of each meat that which I'm using beef on the side yeah and pork on the side so what's happened beef gives you the texture so when you roll them they stay together yeah but the pork it gives you the natural fattiness and the juiciness that the meatball needs so always used to condom it if you don't want to sport you can use beef and lamb you can use beef whatever you want you know whatever you want so you got the two things together secret is you need to have breadcrumb very good for texture a nice a fresh background fresh I drag one because otherwise you're gonna dry the means and you know why do you see is a breadcrumb in the old days and they still do tip okay I'll look it up yeah because it was cheap so any leftover bread that you have a home don't trade away just leave it the middle part the would we call it Malika and then whenever you make meatloaf for me to bully you see them in there and do you have to put bread crumbs in it then if you don't want okay you know more than we discovered it during the year as we will make in trying meatball with or without bread the bread crumb it makes the bit the meatball tender yes because he can't so breaks up between the meats so I'm using Grana Padano cheese is a from Rome cheese and it tails yes cheese very you can use Parmesan cheese or pickle you know I like to use it but Grana Padano oh yeah to Italy the Val Padano region it's like a mild pumice it's a mild form isn't Brava that's Maurice is a math person then we put eggs to combines everything together yeah crushed garlic very important put the slices because otherwise you're gonna have the the the the bitter garlic salt okay if you go rings all it takes your rings off please a little bit of black pepper okay hands all right I'm gonna start then now once we're at these stages Ashley I need parsley please get in there one always one end that's the very good point because if you use two hands at some point the you define your age or the phone ring always use one hand now in here I'm going to prepare the sauce now mixed bowl when you make meatball what you need to appreciate is the meatball so do not over complicate the tomato sauce tomato sauce let me show you what you do extra virgin olive oil you put a couple of pinches of chilli flakes then chopped tomato teamed chopped tomato for texture and then passata sieve tomato for color both of them okay so once you've done that you put a little bit of salt no need for Becky you didn't cook off that chili first you don't know that not because if he's a dried chilies absolutely fine it will get softer in the tomatoes that need to go in here yes please now once you're at this stage with the source guys you put a little bit of fresh basil cookie for 10 minutes and the job is done and then we're gonna add the meatball so let's pretend that this is being cooking for 10 minutes very slow put the heat by this low you want to cook it very little at a time meatball done now is the time to roll them only what we do when you pull the meatball big hands this size all right now when you do it one thing that you shouldn't do is to press too hard the more you press and the tougher the Met Ball is gonna be gentle with the ball so you roll it like that okay Nick let's take okay big small is fun then you put it on the tray like that I've got a tray with a little bit of oil on the bottom because my my mother sang to me getting biggest chunky one right that is my mother's technique was never to fry them and put them in the tomato soup and if you now put them straight into tomato sauce that will break so the other option you can do is to fry them off but then the kitchen in the smell of everything so what she used to do not to make mess because then she had to clean up and all of that she's to put them in a tray then switch on the oven about 200 degrees leave them in the oven for about 10 minutes this is the way she used to firm the meatball before they used to go into the tomato sauce so once you done that the meatball goes into a tomato sauce okay and at this point guys you want to cook them for about 15-20 min a little ya wittily dawn but the secret is this always make sure that the tomato sauce are well into the solid the meatball are well under the tomato sauce otherwise they're going to be dry on top and the chili you put in there because obviously you think this is a family recipe but that chili isn't gonna it's not gonna be it's not gonna be like spicy but it will be able to do it okay it's something that you can take it out my sister and I my Sharla and I we used to have a little kick on the meatball that's why she used to put it on but if you don't like it Alba Oh Popeyes when the Sun comes up the Sun Rise and actually I saw the picture that you should before I never that picture are never appreciated about this my mom so I probably will say that how beautiful she was a young lady she was beautiful and also can we just point out it can you take the strap off your feet because you are wearing Union Jack shoes I mean you were literally it was that taken in chapo destined to come here how odd that is a sign your daddy was very cielo thank you for allowing me to cook my mother sir anytime okay I said it later I like to serve this one when we my mom and I still do with my kids I take to the trailer put in the middle of the table fresh bread and everybody does whatever they want junk yeah they dunk the bread in there we call the Scarpetta when you put the bread into tomato sauce is called Scarpetta smells so fresh the tomatoes I mean is is it's one of these dishes that is impossible not to love me hmm your mother is a genius oh that's really lovely Gina thank you very much you

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Length: 7min 7sec (427 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 06 2017