Meatball

This aromatic curry starts with a base of puréed onions—a simple way to harness punchy allium flavor with none of the chopping and tears.

We stripped these Italian-style meatballs down to the most essential elements for weeknight realness.

Tender Turkish Adana-style kebabs are an essential addition to your summer grilling.

With a few time-saving tricks, spoon-tender meatballs can be yours in about an hour.

All the flavors of classic beef stew in just one hour, with tender meatballs standing in for long-braised, shredded beef.

All the same long-cooked flavors in half the time.

Oven-roasted cherry tomatoes are the star of this easy sheet-pan dinner featuring herb-studded meatballs and cheesy, garlicky toast.

Turkey meatballs have never looked so fresh.

Did someone say weeknight meatballs? Juicy pork meatballs, nestled in a fiery, creamy harissa-coconut sauce, are ready in under an hour.

Meatballs filled with gooey cheese and bathed in creamy pecan romesco sauce—what more do you need?

Deep-fried splendor.

These healthy turkey meatballs are ready in 30 minutes, with a nutty romesco-inspired sauce you’ll want to keep on hand for future dinners.

These Italian vegetable fritters can be made from any kind of vegetable and baked, shallow-fried, or deep-fried.

The fun and flavor of Cuban-style slow-cooked pork in zippy mojo sauce transformed into quick, weeknight-able meatballs. 

Gluten-free meatballs are as easy as adding cooled cooked rice instead of bread to ground meat.

If you’re not set up for grilling or the weather doesn’t permit, a cast-iron grill pan will also do the trick for making these spicy, gingery, umami-packed meatballs.

Dinners like this minimum effort, maximum payoff dish are your biggest ally while on vacation.

In this weeknight recipe, magical, salty, umami-packed fish sauce is doing double-duty as a seasoning in the meatball mixture and as a part of the finishing sauce.

Alison Roman knows the best spring breaks are those spent putting together minimum effort, maximum reward dishes that blur the lines between lunch and dinner, lazy and ambitious.

A little bit lighter and a whole lot greener than your average meatball

For this soup recipe, we skipped browning the meatballs and poached them instead. This will keep them very tender and their flavor light, which is ideal for this seasonal dish.

This dish is a perfect choice for those blustery but bright early spring days: It's comforting from the simple-but-flavorful broth and bright from the crunchy fresh topping.

I’ll slather this vibrant, smoky-spicy magic on just about everything.