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Meatballs From Around the Globe - 11 Easy Recipes!

By Lindsay @ The Café Sucre Farine | Updated on March 26, 2024

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11 easy and delicious meatball recipes from around the world. They're perfect for weeknight dinners or easy entertaining!

Easy, delicious and crowd-pleasing! These meatball recipes check all the boxes. They are perfect for easy dinners, hosting family and friends or game day snacks. From Asian to Italian, there's something for whatever you're craving.

These recipes include everything cozy stews to healthy lettuce wraps and rice bowls. Have I convinced you yet? Add these to your menu and thank us later!

Beef Bourguinon Meatballs (Boulettes de Bœuf Bourguignon)

Want to feel a little fancy without breaking the bank or spending hours in the kitchen? These make-ahead Beef Bourguinon Meatballs are outrageously delicious, work well for entertaining and will make an ordinary day quite special!

Oven Roasted Greek Chicken Meatballs

These healthy, delicious Greek Chicken Meatballs come together quickly with lean chicken, lots of fresh veggies and a ton of fabulous flavor! Serve them as an appetizer, in sandwiches, in bowls with Greek salad, hummus and orzo (pictured), in wraps with pita bread and hummus...

Ginger Scallion Meatballs in bowls with rice and fresh herbs.

Ginger Scallion Meatballs with Potsticker Dipping Sauce

If you enjoy Asian potstickers, you're going to LOVE these Ginger Scallion Meatballs. Both the meatballs and the Potsticker Dipping Sauce come together quickly with minimal fuss.

Herbed Chicken Meatballs in a cast iron skillet with gold forks and white plates.

Fresh Herb Chicken Meatballs

These tender Fresh Herb Chicken Meatballs, with a delicious lemon garlic butter sauce, come together quickly and can be prepped early in the day!

Vertical overhead photo of Thai Coconut Soup with Chicken Cilantro Meatballs on a wood table surrounded by bowls of peanuts, rice and fresh herbs.

Thai Coconut Soup with Chicken Cilantro Meatballs

This Thai Coconut Soup with Chicken Cilantro Meatballs is a delicious, easy and unique dinner entree that's bursting with fabulous flavor.

Overhead picture of Italian Chicken Meatballs with Marinara in a large pot on a wooden table

Italian Chicken Meatballs and Marinara

These Italian Chicken Meatballs are made from boneless, skinless chicken breasts, not ground chicken. They're lean, light, tender, juicy and full of flavor!

Overhead picture of Huli Huli Chicken meatballs in a cast iron skillet

Huli Huli Chicken Meatballs

With a sweet, savory, soy-pineapple glaze sauce these Hawaiian-inspired Huli Huli Chicken Meatballs make delicious appetizers, rice bowls sandwiches and more!

Overhead picture of Korean Meatballs with rice and toppings

Korean Meatball Lettuce Wraps

Looking to eat a little lighter and leaner? These Korean Meatball Lettuce Wraps are easy, healthy and so delicious! The meatballs also make a fabulous appetizer that will disappear in the blink of an eye!


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Strawberry Balsamic Glazed Chicken Meatballs

If you love meatballs, Asian cuisine and like to keep things decently healthy, these fabulous Strawberry Balsamic Glazed Chicken Meatballs are calling your name!

Vertical picture of Vietnamese Chicken Meatballs on toothpicks with dipping sauce

Vietnamese Chicken Meatballs

These make-ahead Vietnamese Chicken Meatballs are light, lean and bursting with fresh, vibrant flavor. Serve them as an appetizer or main course!

Vertical picture of Italian Meatballs and Marinara in a white bowl

Italian Meatballs with Marinara

A delicious, classic Italian favorite. This recipe always brings rave reviews!

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3 Comments

  1. I m sure all these are very tasty recipes.But I m astonished to not to see any of "1001" famous Turkish "kofte" s ( meatballs)recipes .There is 291 different kofte in Turkish Cuisine Almost every city has its own meatball speciality worth to know and taste immediately.Some of them are Inegol Kofte, Adana Kebabi, Izmir kofte, Akcaabat Kofte, Tekirdag Kofte,Tire Kofte, Akhisar Kofte , Hasanpasa koftesi ...

  2. WOW!!!! These recipes are going to me through this Sunday's play-offs - Next week's Super Bowl - AND the Grammys & Oscar parties!!!!!!!
    No stress - Just enjoy the shows...
    Thanks Chris!!!!!!!