Summary:Meatballs made with ground beef, veal and pork simmered in aromatic homemade tomato sauce having fresh herbs in it served with spaghetti cooked in tomato sauce is a delicious dinner for the whole family.
Prep time and Cooking time (duration): 20 minutes
Number of servings (yield): 5
Ingredients for Spaghetti with Meatballs:
- 3 shallots
- 3 cloves fresh garlic
- 1 sprig fresh rosemary
- 8 sprigs fresh parsley
- 1 sprig fresh dill
- Fresh sage
- Fresh basil
- 3 cups diced Roma tomatoes
- 3 teaspoons salt
- 2 teaspoons pepper
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 pound ground veal
- 2 cups smoked bacon
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 2 raw eggs
- 8 ozs. Parmesan cheese
- 3 slices of bread
- 1 Cup milk
- 1 pound spaghetti
- olive oil
Get Ready To Work in “Real Time” to Make Spaghetti with Meatballs:
Get out these items and utensils: Knife for chopping, 1 Skillet, 1 stock pot, baking sheet
Get from your pantry: olive oil, pepper, garlic, shallot, spaghetti, nutmeg
Get from your refrigerator: fresh rosemary, fresh parsley, Roma tomatoes, ground beef, ground veal, smoked bacon, Parmesan cheese, eggs, milk, fresh basil, fresh sage, and fresh dill
Pre-prepare the following:
- Mince garlic into small pieces
- Finely dice tomato
- Preheat the oven for 350 degrees for 10 minutes.
- Soak 3 pieces of bread in the milk
Begin to cook with Chef Pellegrini:
Prepare tomato sauce:
- Dice shallots into small pieces.
- Put fry pan on medium heat, add olive oil.
- Mince garlic into small pieces.
- Put shallot and 2 cloves garlic in pan and sauté.
- Add rosemary, parsley,basil and dill to pan.
- Add tomatoes and stir.
- Sprinkle 1 teaspoon salt into mixture. Simmer for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Prepare meatballs:
- In mixing bowl, add beef and veal
- Chop bacon into small pieces. Add to bowl
- Add 1 clove diced garlic to bowl
- Remove leaves from 7 sprigs of parsley, roll into ball and chop
- Add parsley to mixture in bowl
- Add nutmeg to bowl
- Break eggs into bowl with mixture
- Add Parmesan cheese to mixture
- Squeeze excess milk out of bread, and break into pieces before placing in bowl with other ingredients
- Add 2 teaspoons salt
- Add 2 teaspoons pepper
- Knead ingredients in bowl until they are evenly distributed
- Make small meatballs and place on large baking pan
- Place meatballs in oven and cook at 350 degrees for 10 minutes, or until meatballs are brown
- Add meatballs in pan with sauce. Cook for 5 minutes, and then put in fry pan.
- If sauce is too thick, add a little water to it. Mash tomatoes while stirring.
- Cook pasta until two minutes until done, strain. Add pasta to sauce.
- Stir pasta into sauce. Continue to simmer for 5 minutes.
- Sprinkle 3 tablespoons of parmesan cheese into the pan and stir.
To Serve:
- On serving plate, Place pasta with sauce and then add meatballs around pasta
- Drizzle with olive oil and a dash of freshly grounded black pepper
- Lay fresh basil leave along with meatball.
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