Spaghetti and Meatballs
Spaghetti and Meatballs

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Spaghetti and Meatballs is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Spaghetti and Meatballs is something that I have loved my whole life.

Add crushed tomatoes and bay leaf. Season with salt and pepper and bring to a simmer. Return meatballs to pot and cover.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook spaghetti and meatballs using 10 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Spaghetti and Meatballs:
  1. Get 1 pound ground beef
  2. Prepare 1 pound box of spaghetti
  3. Get Shredded Parmesan cheese
  4. Make ready Panko bread crumbs
  5. Take Salt
  6. Prepare Olive oil
  7. Make ready Cajun seasoning (or preferred beef seasoning)
  8. Make ready Black pepper (optional)
  9. Make ready Oregano (optional)
  10. Take Pasta sauce (optional)

I make Martha's spaghetti sauce recipe from her "Comfort Food" cookbook with San Marzanos from our summer garden. I keep it in the freezer and it was outstanding with the meatballs. Please don't wipe out the pan. the oil, in which the meatballs were cooked, is what flavors the tomatoes and makes the sauce! Heat a large saucepan over a medium heat and add the olive oil.

Instructions to make Spaghetti and Meatballs:
  1. Mix shredded Parmesan cheese and bread crumbs in a bowl
  2. Take a small piece of ground beef (you want about 10-15 meatballs at the end) and flatten it out with your hands
  3. Put a good amount of shredded Parmesan cheese and bread crumb mixture into the piece of flattened ground beef, roll ground beef into a meatball
  4. Repeat steps 2-3 until all ground beef is in meatball form
  5. Put a little bit of olive oil on skillet and place all meatballs in skillet, season meatballs, turn stove to low-medium heat (4 out of 10 or so), wait until meatballs have started browning just a little bit
  6. Begin boiling water, put salt in water to help it boil and for taste
  7. Continue cooking meatballs to preferred level
  8. Add spaghetti to boiling water, turn down heat just a bit
  9. If meatballs are done before spaghetti, turn heat to low. Test meatballs by cutting biggest meatball in half to make sure it's cooked properly
  10. Once spaghetti is done, drain spaghetti
  11. Put preferred number of meatballs in bowl, put preferred amount of spaghetti on top of meatballs
  12. Add preferred toppings on top of spaghetti, either more Parmesan and bread crumbs, black pepper and oregano, or pasta sauce, or olive oil
  13. Mix together and enjoy!

Bring a large saucepan of salted water to the boil. To serve, scoop the spaghetti onto a large platter or into individual bowls and spoon over the meatballs and sauce. To freeze separately, put sauce in freezer bags, but open-freeze the uncooked meatballs on a tray, then wrap in cling film once hard. Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat, and cook the onion until lightly brown. While the meatballs are cooking, bring a large pan of salted water to the boil.

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