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Meatballs in Sauce

  • Autumn is starting, so we are starting to eat a little stronger. Today I decided to make meatballs. My mom made it a lot of times, and I follow her recipe to this day, but sometimes I change it and add other ingredients. Anyway, they are great and delicious! Preparation is simple and relatively quick. Follow recipe.

Ingredients: simple, total time: 75 min. 4 serving

For Meatballs:

  • 800 g minced meat/ pork and beef

  • 2 big cloves of garlic/ minced

  • 3 full Tbsp breadcrumbs

  • 60 ml oil

  • 1 teaspoon onion powder

  • 1 teaspoon salt

  • 1 teaspoon dry spice Vegeta

  • 1/2 teaspoon black pepper

  • 1 teaspoon red ground pepper

  • 1 egg

  • 1 teaspoon dry parsley

Tomato Sauce:

  • 4 Tbsp Olive oil EVO

  • 2 2big cloves of garlic/ minced/ optional

  • 2 Tbsp flour

  • 500 ml tomato juice

  • salt and pepper to taste

  • 1 teaspoon of sugar

  • 200 ml water

  • 1 Tbsp chopped fresh parsley/ or basil

Preparation:

For Meatballs:

  1. First, prepare the minced meat with spices for meatballs.

  2. First put the minced meat in a deep bowl, then add garlic, breadcrumbs, add oil, and mix the ingredients well. After that, add salt, onion powder, black pepper, ground pepper, dry parsley and dry spice Vegeta.

  3. 6Combine these ingredients well and finally add the egg, mix again by hand to combine everything well.

  4. When the mixture is well combined, put it in the fridge, covered with plastic wrap, for 30 minutes.

  5. During this time, make the sauce for the meatballs.

Sauce:

  1. Pour oil into a deep pan and set to moderate heat.

  2. When the oil has heated up, add the chopped garlic and mix, as soon as it smells, add the flour, mix everything well until the flour becomes a little darker.

  3. Reduce heat and Immediately add tomato juice and sugar, mix everything well, cook for about 25-30 minutes with adding water in two times.

  4. In the meantime, add salt and pepper to taste, as well as parsley at the very end.

  5. The sauce is now ready and you can start shaping the meatballs.

Processing:

  1. Scoop out the mixture with a large spoon and make balls the same size as golf balls.

  2. Scoop out the mixture with a large spoon and make balls the same size as golf balls. To make it easier for you to create forms, oil your hands a little.

  3. Arrange them on a tray.

  4. After that, pour the oil into the pan and set it to moderate heat.

  5. During this time, roll the balls in flour. You can also skip this step, but directly fry them on all sides until they are well browned.

  6. When all the balls are finished, heat the sauce you made in a larger wok pan and add the meatballs. Cook for about 10-15 minutes, covered, over low heat.

  7. Serve ready-made meatballs with mashed potatoes, rice, boiled potatoes or polenta. The choice is yours.


Buon appetito,!


NOTE:

  • If the sauce is too strong for you, you can dilute it with cooking cream.

  • Keep the rest of the food in the fridge for up to 4 days.


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