Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, spaghetti and meat balls. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Spaghetti and Meat Balls is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Spaghetti and Meat Balls is something which I have loved my entire life.
This Spaghetti and Meatball recipe from Delish.com proves everything is better homemade. Spaghetti and meatballs or spaghetti with meatballs is an Italian-American dish consisting of spaghetti, tomato sauce and meatballs. Spaghetti and meatballs is such a comfort food classic!
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook spaghetti and meat balls using 22 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Spaghetti and Meat Balls:
- Prepare Shredded mozzarella cheese
- Make ready Grated parmesan cheese
- Prepare Spaghetti noodles
- Get Garlic bread
- Get Side salad
- Make ready Meat sauce
- Take 1 lb ground beef and/or ground Italian sausage
- Prepare 1 large Onion, finely chopped
- Take 1 (28 ounce) can crushed tomatoes
- Prepare 1 (15 ounce) can tomato sauce
- Prepare 2 tablespoons sugar or to taste (see notes)
- Get 1 1/2 teaspoons dried basil
- Take Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- Prepare 1 tablespoons garlic powder
- Prepare Meat balls
- Make ready 1/2 lb ground beef
- Prepare 1/2 lb ground pork
- Take 1 egg
- Take 4 tsp good quality, unflavored, breadcrumbs
- Prepare 2 tsp extract virgin olive oil
- Get 1 tsp dried basil
- Make ready 1/2 tsp garlic powder
Also check out more delicious meatball recipes, such as our baked Italian meatballs. How to Make Spaghetti and Meatballs. There are three parts in making it. The first is to make the meatballs, next is to prepare the sauce, and lastly is to cook the spaghetti.
Instructions to make Spaghetti and Meat Balls:
- Mix 1 pound of ground beef with 1/2 tsp. garlic and 1/2 tsp. basil. Add egg and bread crumbs, and mix well. Heat oil in a large pot. Form meat mixture into 1-inch balls, and fry until golden in the hot oil. Remove meat balls to a plate.
- In a large saucepan or Dutch oven over medium-high heat, add beef, sausage, and onion and cook until mostly browned, about 5 minutes. Drain, add in crushed tomatoes, tomato sauce, sugar, basil, Italian seasoning, and garlic powder..
- Add sugar to taste. For some, that means omitting it entirely. For others, you can increase the sugar up to 1/4 cup.
- Simmer uncovered for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Season to taste with salt and pepper (I like 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper). Yield: 2 quarts of sauce
- Bring 3-4 quarts of salted water to boil in a large soup pot or pasta pot. Cook the spaghetti according to the package directions. When "al dente," drain the spaghetti, and put back into the large pot.
- Quickly stir in several tablespoons of the spaghetti sauce to keep the spaghetti from sticking to itself. Serve mounds of the spaghetti with sauce and meatballs on top, according to taste. It's also fine to mix most of the sauce and meatballs directly into the pasta and serve in large bowls.
- Dont forget to serve with garlic bread and a side salad. Make sure you have shredded mozzarella cheese for on top of your spaghetti and meat balls. Enjoy.
For a great spaghetti and meatball recipe you need a simple tomato sauce with lots of flavour. This one is a store cupboard saviour. This spaghetti meatball recipe is made all the more authentic with traditional Italian meatballs. Moisten hands with some of reserved milk from breadcrumbs, then roll meat mixture between palms into golf-ball-size balls, occasionally moistening hands with milk as needed and arranging meatballs. Never eating spaghetti and meatballs again in my life would be pretty devasted.
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