- Difficulty: Very Easy
- Cost: Economical
- Preparation time: 20 Minutes
- Portions: 4
- Cooking methods: Air Frying
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Summer
- Energy 356.95 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 40.06 (g) of which sugars 8.81 (g)
- Proteins 16.76 (g)
- Fat 14.81 (g) of which saturated 5.08 (g)of which unsaturated 4.47 (g)
- Fibers 8.46 (g)
- Sodium 976.55 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 212 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
From the pan to the jar suggests…
The eggplant meatballs cooked in an air fryer can be stored for 2 days in an airtight container and in the refrigerator.
Variants with eggplant meatballs
Once cooked, you can dip the meatballs in tomato sauce and boil them for 10 minutes. In a pan or in the microwave.
If you love crunchy notes, try adding 0.7 oz of toasted pine nuts to the eggplant meatball mixture.
Vegetable meatballs in the air fryer
Instead of eggplants, you can use the same weight of grated zucchini with a coarse grater and then squeeze them.
To store vegetable meatballs cooked in the air fryer
Do you have leftover meatballs and tomato sauce? Did you know you can store them for 15 days? Try the jar-cooked eggplant meatballs.
To learn more about the author…
Rosella Errante, food blogger of the Giallo Zafferano platform, passionate about food, decided to speed up traditional dishes, specializing in microwave jar cooking, healthy eating, using the latest generation appliances. Hence the name of her blog, From the pan to the jar.
After making the jar cooking technique domestic, she opened a support group on Facebook, Easy Jar Cooking, following each member of her community and introducing them to this extraordinary cooking technique.
Author of 3 books: 2 on jar cooking, Easy Jar Cooking and Light Jar Cooking, and a book Air Fryer. All Gribaudo publisher.
She holds courses all over Italy, both on microwave jar cooking and air frying.
You can find Rosella Errante on all social channels: Facebook page and profile – Instagram – Tik Tok – Pinterest – YouTube – Telegram Channel –
