-We're here with Mark Iacono,
the owner and chef at Brooklyn's acclaimed pizzeria Lucali.
Thank you so much for being here.
-Thank you. My pleasure.
-And we are gonna make some meatballs tonight.
-Yes. -All right.
Is this a family recipe?
Is this something that was passed down?
-Well, it started off that way, and then I just kind of, like,
tweaked it a little bit for my restaurant.
-All right. How do we start here?
-All right. First, you want to --
No, first we're gonna start with a glass of wine.
-Okay, great. Just to drink?
-Yes. -Great. That's --
I already love this recipe. [ Laughter ]
-And we're gonna put some in the meatballs.
-Okay, great. I love it.
-We got a little extra.
That's for you. -All right, thank you.
-Cheers. -Cheers, appreciate it.
Mmm. -All right, first,
we're gonna start off with some seasoning.
You want to grab the pepper? -Yeah, sure.
This pepper? -Yes sir.
-And just throw it on here?
And what kind of meat have we got here?
What's the combo? -This is brisket short rib.
-Okay, brisket short rib. Great.
All right, pepper. -Yeah, just get it in there.
Little more, little more. -Okay, great, sorry.
I mean, you know... [ Laughter ]
You want to have some pepper for later.
-Yeah, garlic. -Garlic, great.
-Yep. -All right. That good? More?
-All right, yes. This. All right.
-All right?
-Just give me 2 teaspoons in here.
-2 teaspoons of -- -So we put the -- no, this.
-Oh.
-The Calabrian chilis, we put Calabrian chilis...
-In the eggs? -Yes.
'Cause it makes it easier to distribute.
-Okay, great. -Yep.
-There you go. -Good, great.
-All right. We're off to a really good start here.
-Do you want to -- -What do you want me to do here?
Cheese? -No, no, no.
Let's chop some parsley. -Okay, here? Right here?
-Yep. That big. -This seems --
[ Laughter ]
-Excessive?
-This seems excessive for parsley.
-That's grandma's knife. -That's grandma's knife?
-Yes. -Passed down?
-Yep. -You inherited it?
-And don't chop it -- No, no. Not too fine.
You know, we make a rustic meatball.
Leave the stems in there. Don't worry about it.
-Okay, great. Yeah.
It would be hard to get fine with this.
This is like -- This is for chopping bamboo.
-Well, no. [ Laughter ]
-This is for when you need to get out of the jungle.
-Look, we're gonna need a little more.
-All right, a little more. Okay, gotcha.
-Little more. -All right.
All right. -All right.
[ Laughter ]
You're good, you're good, you're good.
-I'm worried -- I was worried I was gonna
cut through the cutting board.
In here? Just like this?
-Yeah, yeah. Just go -- -Okay, great, great, great.
-Go ahead, go ahead, go ahead. Keep going.
[ Laughter ] Pour the egg on top.
-I pour this? This goes on?
In here? -Yep.
Right on, just -- -all right.
Great. -There you go.
[ Laughter ]
-Can I ask a question that I heard?
Is it true that some people
propose at your pizza restaurant?
-Yes. -And that you will --
-It's a big first-date spot. -Okay.
-And they all come back. -And you will --
Well, you will actually spell out --
-"Marry me" in pepperoni. -In pepperoni.
-Yep. -That's fantastic.
-You want to crack that open? -Yeah. What do we got here?
-Prosecco. -Prosecco.
Oh, my goodness. -Yes.
I got the white wine. -All right.
The Prosecco goes in the meatballs?
-Yeah, well, what we do is we soak the bread
in half Prosecco, half white wine.
[ Cork pops ] -Oh, boy.
All right. Oops. Sorry.
-That's good luck. -Okay. Is that good?
-A little more. -Okay.
-All right.
-And is this something you came up with your own,
the soaking of the bread in Prosecco?
-Yes. Well, usually people use milk, some sauce, water.
-Okay, all right.
-Okay, so, what you're gonna do,
just grate some cheese on there. -Okay.
-Use the coarse side. -All right.
How am I doing? -Not good.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
I will say, it felt wrong.
-You got to put some, like, muscle into it.
-Okay. Well, that's hurtful.
[ Laughter ]
Oh, yeah, that is -- I will admit that that is
way better than what I was doing.
-Okay, there you go. -That is markedly better.
-Grab it from here. Grab it from here.
[ Applause ]
-Rrrr! -There you go.
-Rrrr!
Yeah, yeah, yeah! No, I get it.
Everything. Rrrr!
-Keep going, keep going. -I'm going!
[ Laughter ]
That's a lot of cheese on these meatballs.
-Yes. Yeah, they're cheesy, spicy meatballs.
-Oh, they're cheese and spicy.
And "Calay-breean" chilis -- -"Ca-lah-breean" chilis.
-Made it spicy. Okay, great.
-All right. Ready? Now, we're gonna give a quick...
-All right. -...dip.
-Okay. -You grab some.
-Okay. Just dip it?
-Yeah, quick. -Okay, quick.
-Not too much, not too much. [ Laughter ]
We don't want them to be too soggy.
-I did it exactly as long as you did, Mark!
-All right. Cool, cool. Done.
-Okay. -Yeah.
-All right, there we go.
Oh, oh! I hope that wasn't --
Hope that wasn't in there too long.
[ Laughter and applause ]
-Dry your hands. -Okay, now I dry my hands.
Okay, great. All right, now what?
-That's it. I think we're done.
-Okay, great. -Now we're gonna mix them up.
-Okay, so we mix them up. How do we mix them up?
-Just go for it. -Just like this, really?
-I like to give a little --
Come on, do like we're playing the piano.
All right. -Oh!
This is more fun than I thought it would be.
-Yeah, you don't want to overmix it.
-Yeah, no, of course. Everybody knows that.
-Yeah, you don't want to beat the meat up too much.
-And now what? Now --
-And now we just... [ Laughter ]
...fold. -Fold?
-Go for it, yeah. Fold it over.
[ Laughter ] There you go.
-All right, there we go. Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy.
-Yep. -All right. And now what?
-Now you got to -- A little more.
-Okay.
You really got to work it a little.
-All right. I feel like you didn't give me
good enough instruction. -Come on.
-All right, here we go.
And now, when do we make them into balls?
When does that happen? -A little more.
You got to break the bread up. -Oh, my God.
[ Laughter ]
-I told you you were gonna work.
-If you let me soak the bread longer,
it would've broken up faster.
[ Laughter and applause ]
All right. -All right, that's it.
You're good. -All right, got it.
-You're good. You're good.
Let's, you know, give ourselves some room here.
-All right. -And just let's ball them up.
-All right, here we go. All right.
Okay.
-I got, like, really big chunk like right in there.
-So I think they look like this.
We're running a little bit out of time,
so why don't we skip ahead to the finished meatballs here?
-Okay. -All right.
I know you have them. Don't slow-play me here.
-All right. Come on. So we'll put these under here.
-Put that down there. Where are they?
Where are they?! -Grab a dish.
-Grab a dish, okay. Here we go.
-Are we really running out of time?
[ Laughter ]
-Whoo! [ Cheers and applause ]
-There you go. -Oh, my.
-I think they're really hot. Be careful.
-Mmm! Oh, my God.
-They're good, right? -I made really good meatballs.
[ Laughter ]
-You really, really did -- -I really did it.
Give it up for Mark Iacono, everybody!
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