Meatball

[1] Meatballs are cooked by frying, baking, steaming, or braising in sauce.

[2] Early recipes included in some of the earliest known Arabic cookbooks generally feature seasoned lamb rolled into orange-sized balls and glazed with egg yolk and sometimes saffron.

From Iberia and Sweden to the Indian subcontinent, there is a large variety of meatballs in the kofta family.

[30] In the simplest form, koftas consist of balls or fingers of minced or ground meat – usually beef or lamb – mixed with spices and/or onions and other ingredients.

They can be grilled, fried, steamed, poached, baked or marinated, and may be served with a rich spicy sauce.

Hochzeitssuppe , a traditional German wedding soup with meatballs
Raw meatballs
Meatballs being cooked
Bulgarian big meatball, tatarsko kufte
A freshly made batch of Danish meatballs ( frikadeller )
Klopsy with potato purée from Poland
Meatballs served in the Swedish style, with mashed potatoes , brown sauce , lingonberry jam and pickled cucumber
İnegöl meatballs from Turkey
Fasírt in főzelék.
Fasírt in főzelék. The Hungarian fasírt has a harder crust than its counterparts. Soft meatballs used in Scandinavia or the ones that are put into the soup are called húsgolyó or húsgombóc in Hungarian .
A meatball pizza
Mexican albóndigas al chipotle
Kufte Tabrīzī
A Lion's Head meatball from China
Indonesian bakso noodle soup