How to Cook Delicious Spaghetti and Meatballs

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

To brown the meatballs, heat olive oil in a heavy pot or large skillet over medium-high heat. Remove and drain on a paper towel after each batch. In the same pot, add the onions and garlic and cook for a few minutes, or until translucent. You can have Spaghetti and Meatballs using 21 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Spaghetti and Meatballs

1. You need 1 of large onion.
2. Prepare 1 lb of ground beef.
3. It's 2 of medium sized eggs.
4. Prepare 1/2 cup of finely grated Parmesan cheese.
5. Prepare 1 of and 1/2 Tbsp of dried oregano.
6. You need 1 of and 1/2 Tbsp of of dried basil.
7. It's 5 of turns of ground pepper.
8. It's 1 tsp of salt.
9. You need 4 slices of bread.
10. Prepare of Approximately 1/2 of milk.
11. Prepare 2 Tbsp of olive oil.
12. It's 4 of large cloves of garlic.
13. It's 29 oz of tomato sauce.
14. It's 13 oz of tomato paste.
15. It's 28 oz of petite diced tomatoes.
16. You need 1 Tbsp of dried oregano.
17. You need 1/2 Tbsp of dried basil.
18. You need 2 of bay leaves.
19. You need 1 Tbsp of sugar.
20. You need to taste of Salt.
21. It's 1 1/2 lbs of spaghetti.

Serve hot on cooked spaghetti and pass the grated Parmesan. 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!

Spaghetti and Meatballs step by step

1. Cut onion into half rings and line bottom of large fry pan.
2. Place ground beef, eggs, cheese, oregano, basil, salt, and pepper into bowl.
3. Poor milk over bread slices. Squeeze out excess milk from each slice onto remaining slices and crumble into bowl..
4. Mix meatball ingredients by hand until well mixed.
5. Form meatballs into clementine sized balls and place in pan on bed of onions.
6. Add water to pan until it covers onions and reaches bottom of meatballs..
7. Bring water to boil and cover. Steam meatballs for 25 minutes..
8. Sautee garlic in olive oil and let pot cool briefly..
9. Add tomato sauce, tomato paste, diced tomatoes, oregano, basil, bay leaves, sugar, and salt..
10. Use tongs to move a few meatballs and add onions from meatball pan to sauce..
11. Simmer sauce until heated through..
12. Add meatballs to sauce and stir carefully without breaking meatballs.
13. Simmer sauce and meatballs for approximately 30 minutes to mingle flavors.
14. Make spaghetti per package instructions.
15. Combine and enjoy!.

In a large bowl, combine the first eight ingredients. Crumble beef and pork over mixture and mix well. Place meatballs on a greased rack in a shallow baking pan. Place on prepared baking sheet; coat with cooking spray. Pour pasta sauce into large skillet; add meatballs.