Ground pork recipes

Tender pork and crab meatballs braised with crisp Chinese cabbage in savory broth. This classic Lion's Head recipe brings restaurant-style elegance to your table in 30 minutes.

A hearty ground pork meatloaf seasoned with garlic, oregano, and fresh parsley, topped with tomato sauce and baked until juicy. Simple comfort food the whole family will love.

A wonderful rich flavored dinner sausage with Italian cusines.

Vietnamese-style soup with cucumber cups stuffed with seasoned ground pork, ginger, garlic, and fish sauce, simmered in chicken broth with carrot matchsticks and quail eggs.

Andouille was a great favorite in nineteenth-century New Orleans. This thick Cajun sausage is made with lean pork and pork fat and lots of garlic. Sliced about 1/2 inch thick and greilled, it makes a delightful appetizer. It is also used in a superb oyster and andouille gumbo poplular in Laplace, a Cajun town about 30 miles fromNew Orleans that calls itself the Andouille Capital of the World.

Always popular sausage is homemade breakfast sausage patties seasoned with sage, thyme, allspice, nutmeg, and a little brown sugar and cayenne. No casings needed, just mix, shape, and freeze. You control exactly what goes in.

German-style veal and pork meatballs served over braised red cabbage and potatoes with a lemon-caper pan sauce. A rustic one-skillet-and-pot Bavarian dinner with Worcestershire-spiked gravy.

Smoky ancho and fiery chipotle chilies form a bold spice crust on tender pork loin, slow-roasted in a clay pot with sweet onions until fall-apart tender.

Pork and macaroni bake layered with ground pork, mushrooms, tomato sauce, and sharp cheddar. A hearty layered casserole with a bubbly cheese top.

Green chili with three meats, roasted poblano peppers, fresh cilantro, and beer. Slow-simmered for two hours and finished with beurre manie for serious richness and body.

Roasted acorn squash halves stuffed with curried ground turkey, applesauce, and raisin bread cubes. A low-calorie fall dinner for two with warm, cozy spices.

A big-batch deer sausage recipe with equal parts ground venison and pork, seasoned with cayenne, paprika, brown sugar, and hot sauce. Mix, stuff into casings, and you're set for the season.

Scandinavian-style meatball cakes made from ground veal and pork with cream and eggs, served alongside beer rice cooked in French onion soup. A hearty, pub-inspired dinner.

Cajun shepherd's pie layers spiced beef-pork meatloaf, julienned sautéed vegetables, and creamy mashed potatoes, then broils until golden. Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana spin on the British classic, loaded with cayenne and bell pepper.

Giant pork meatballs with water chestnuts and ginger, fried until crusted and braised for 2 hours on napa cabbage in a clay pot. A classic Shanghai comfort dish that melts in your mouth.

Gefullte Kalbsbrust is a German stuffed veal breast filled with ground beef, pork, breadcrumbs, and nutmeg, then braised in a paprika-rosemary broth with whole cloves and bay leaves.