Meatballs

Meatballs are spheres of meat combined with seasonings and crumbs. Nearly every cuisine has a dish that features them: Italian spaghetti and meatballs, Mexican albondigas soup, Middle Eastern kofta made with lamb, Vietnamese meatballs found in pho and featured in banh mi sandwiches, steamed meatballs in Chinese dim sum, Hungarian meatballs made with minced pork, and Swedish meatballs with sour cream gravy (as well as their cousin, Norwegian meatballs, which are charged with an eye-opening measure of cardamom). In Italian-American sandwich shops and pizzerias, meatballs can be the basis of a hot sub or, when cut into disks, a pizza meat.