3 Smart Recipes That Will Change the Way You Make Meatballs. Our recipe tester called one of them "miraculous." [View all]

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There are no strict rules for meatballs, as my 15 years of professional cooking experience at various magazine test kitchens and cooking for food photography shoots have showed me.

Meatballs, in essence, are just meat, seasonings and a binder. They can be mixed delicately or vigorously, made from a meat substitute, flavored with a variety of ingredients (herbs, spices, cheeses) and cooked any number of ways.

But while there’s no single formula, there are a few principles for ingredients and techniques that, once learned, will help you make better meatballs every time.

The three recipes below yield meatballs that are all quite different from one another, but each one holds important lessons. Make them all, and you may very well end up a meatball master.

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