Albondigas - Spanish Meatballs Recipe

Albondigas or Spanish Meatballs are just one of the many tasty items that might be enjoyed as tapas or snack.

Albondigas or Spanish Meatballs make a delicious light meal, especially when served with a vegetable or a salad and bread. Spanish Albondigas often serves with tomato sauce as an appetizer or main course.

Recipes Ingredients:

(Serving: 11~12 people | Preparation time: 50 minutes)


  • Bread (soaked in clean water): 2 slices
  • Dash of nutmeg
  • Egg: 1
  • Fresh parsley (finely chopped): 1 tablespoon
  • Ground beef*: 1 lb.
  • Ground chorizo or other spicy sausage*: 4 oz
  • Olive oil: 3 tablespoons
  • Salt: 0.75 teaspoon

Cooking Methods:

  1. Using a large bowl, combine and mix meat, salt, nutmeg, and parsley to form a meat mixture.
  2. Squeeze water from bread. Add bread and egg to meat mixture and mix it again.
  3. After mixing, form meat mixture into about 36 small balls.
  4. Heat olive oil in a frying pan and thoroughly cook the meatballs until it turns into brown color. The process will take about 20 minutes depending on the heat apply.
  5. Once cooked, serve immediately.

Cooking Suggestions(*):

  1. To lower fat content of the meatballs, try to substitute ground turkey and spicy turkey sausage for the beef and chorizo.