What’s Sauce For The Meatballs…
From sitbynellie 13 years ago
- 60 to make
- Serves 4
Is sauce for anything else you like. On this occasion, I finally got around to making Donnie’s Italian-style Meatballs. They were excellent! So simple and delicious. I needed some sauce to have them with, so I just went ahead and made one up, using the ingredients I had to hand. Read more The cooking time is estimated… I dawdled over this and enjoyed a glass of wine or so while cooking… ;-p I have put down 15 minutes prep time for chopping, measuring etc. but cooking and prepping kind of overlap here. Finally, the ingredient list and cooking time does not include the meatballs themselves. Access the link below. See less
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp. well-flavoured olive oil shopping list
- ½ onion, chopped shopping list
- 4 oz. bacon, finely chopped (I used smoked streaky bacon and cut as much of the white fat off as I could shopping list
- ½ red pepper, chopped shopping list
- ½ green pepper, chopped shopping list
- 4 cloves garlic, crushed shopping list
- 1 tbsp. Italian-style dried herb mixture shopping list
- salt and freshly-ground black pepper, to taste shopping list
- A good ‘glug’ of red wine shopping list
- 2 tbsps. tomato puree shopping list
- a good ‘glug’ of mushroom ketchup shopping list
- one 14-oz. can or carton of chopped tomatoes, with their juice shopping list
- boiling water, to thin shopping list
- 1 tbsp. olive oil shopping list
- 5 oz. mushrooms (about 8 medium-sized ones), sliced shopping list
- ½ onion, chopped shopping list
- 2 large, fresh ripe tomatoes, each cut into eighths shopping list
- More red wine (if there’s any left) shopping list
- More salt and pepper (if necessary) shopping list
- A little more mushroom ketchup (or worcestershire sauce), to taste shopping list
- ¾ lb. wholewheat spaghetti shopping list
How to make it
- In a large sauté pan, heat up the oil, not too hot.
- Add the onion and bacon and begin to cook, quite slowly See Photo. The onions shouldn’t colour too much.
- After about 10-15 minutes, add the peppers, garlic and dried herbs. See Photo
- Continue to cook for a little while till the garlic gets fragrant.
- Add the red wine (how much is up to you!) and stir well.
- Add the tomato puree and stir that well in too. See Photo
- Add the mushroom ketchup See Photo. If you don’t have this, you could perhaps try Worcestershire sauce but add cautiously and keep tasting.
- Add the chopped tomatoes with all their juices. See Photo
- Continue to cook down, slowly.
- If necessary, add boiling water a little at a time to keep the consistency right.
- In a separate pan, gently heat the second lot of olive oil.
- Add the mushrooms and onion.
- Sauté until softened and a little coloured.
- Meanwhile, add the fresh tomatoes to the sauce, and stir now and then while they break down. See Photo
- When the mushroom/onion mixture is ready, tip it into the sauce. See Photo
- Set the sauce aside while you prepare Donnie’s Italian Style Meatballs, following this recipe: Donnies Italian Style Meatballs
- When the meatballs are done, deglaze the oven tray with another good ‘glug’ of red wine. See Photo
- Add the meatballs and the meat juice/wine mixture to the sauce.
- Heat through, and adjust the consistency with boiling water and check the seasoning.
- If necessary, add more salt and pepper, and a little more mushroom ketchup (or Worcestershire sauce) to taste.
- Meanwhile, cook the spaghetti until ‘al dente’.
- Serve the meatballs and sauce over the pasta.
After adding red wine and tomato puree
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Cook bacon and onions
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Add garlic, peppers and herbs
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Mushroom ketchup
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Add chopped tomatoes
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Add sauteed mushrooms and onion
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Add fresh tomatoes
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Deglaze oven tray
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Great recipe Sue. You really did a great job posting it. Also, thanks for the plug :)
donman
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