Ukrainian meatball soup

A meatball is ground meat rolled into a ball, sometimes along with other ingredients, such as bread crumbs, minced onion, eggs, butter, and seasoning. Ukrainian meatball soup ancient Roman cookbook Apicius included many meatball-type recipes.

Early recipes included in some of the earliest known Persian cookbooks generally feature seasoned lamb rolled into orange-sized balls and glazed with egg yolk and sometimes saffron. This method was taken to the West and is referred to as gilding. Poume d’oranges is a gilded meatball dish from the Middle Ages. This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Various recipes of meatballs can be found across Europe and Asia. From Iberia and Sweden to the Indian subcontinent, there is a large variety of meatballs in the kofta family.