Serving Meatballs

Just 'visualizing' Julie s's response...DEFINITELY the way to go...

Those who 'like' 'sauce' can have it...those that do not...don't have to.

I would take a large platter and put a couple piles of meatballs on one end. Then take five to ten more meatballs coming out from between the piles in a straight line as kind of a divider. Fill in each side with some curly pasta, maybe around the piles as garnish as well. Finish it with a couple bowls of sauce on each side, like a red sauce and maybe a pomodoro type sauce.

Add some sauce, nobody likes dry balls.

I can't imagine meatballs without gravy or sauce for an entree unless you cover them with cheese. LOL

Meatballs tend to dry out pretty quick so be careful.

Putting them in a bowl is just fine or over a bed of rice.

You need sauce.

Try a platter rather than a bowl.

A friend had a dinner party with the same concept. She had large, handmade meatballs in a pretty casserole dish, 2 types of pasta, & 2 sauces in gravy boats to choose from, grated cheese, etc. It was kind of like a "build your own pasta" dish, but all served family-style on the table.

She sprinkled a little green garnish on the meatballs & arrange them nicely in a dish, or even on a platter.

Depending on what you are serving them with, you may want to offer sauces or a gravy, on the side. But I like the idea of serving them as they are, & letting people add their own accompaniments.

Have a wonderful dinner! T.

Either on a pretty long rectangular platter
-or-
in a pretty silver chafing dish w/one of those candles underneath (the kind
they use at catering companies).

Gotta have sauce LOL either in a nice serving dish with marinara sauce or with a jelly type of sauce for cocktail meatballs.

As an entree?? How about some marinara sauce?

Depends on how much time you have. A bowl with tongs, a small crockpot to keep them warm, on a tray lined up in rows or if you have a square platter/plate you can pile them up? Garnish always helps break things up like parsley speckled over the dish or big bunches of something peaking out beneath the meatballs? Play off the color of the dish and the color of the garnish.

By "gravy" are you referring to red sauce?
I, as did my Italian grandmother, sometimes make meatballs 'naked' like that. (Also, did you ever bake stuffed peppers without sauce? Yum!)
You can bake them on a cookie sheet then place in a casserole dish, I suppose, maybe a covered O., because they do look pretty...well...blah. Garnish with fresh basil and sprigs of fresh oregano?

That's like pizza without cheese! Need sauce. What else are you serving?

I always serve meatballs but they have sauce on them. So we put them on a bed of oven steamed rice. I love Lion House Sweet and Sour Meatballs. They are so delicious!

I would worry they'd get cold and the outside crusty if you didn't have some sort of moisture on them or in the bowl bottom, I'd also have to keep a lid on that container to try and help keep them warm.