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Meatballs In Winter Tomato Sauce Recipe


Meatballs In Winter Tomato Sauce Recipe Conner909 / All my dishes
1 year, 10 months ago
This dish is really good and deserves a much better title! Of course this goes well with pasta...what else?
Prep:60m Cook:60m Servings:8

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Ingredients
  • 1 cup fine, fresh breadcrumbs
  • 1 ½ cups milk
  • 2 medium onions
  • 2 ½ pounds ground round
  • 1 ½ pounds ground pork
  • 1 large egg
  • ½ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
  • 2 ½ teaspoons salt
  • ¾ teaspoon, freshly ground black pepper
  • ¼ cup minced fresh flat-leafed parsley leaves
  • ½ cup (approx.) olive oil for browning meatballs
  • 1 (28-oz.-to-32-oz.) can whole plum tomatoes including juice
  • 1 tablespoon minced garlic
  • 1 ½ teaspoons dried oregano, crumbled
  • 2 tablespoons minced fresh
  • flat-leafed (Italian) parsley leaves

Directions
  1. In a large bowl soak bread crumbs in milk for 10 minutes.
  2. Finely chop onions. Add onions and remaining meatball
  3. ingredients to bread crumb mixture and with your hands
  4. blend together until just combined well (do not overmix).
  5. Form mixture into walnut-size balls and arrange on
  6. large trays or baking sheets.
  7. In a large heavy skillet heat 2 tablespoons oil over moderately
  8. high heat until hot but not smoking and brown meatballs in
  9. batches without crowding, shaking skillet to maintain round
  10. shape and adding remaining oil as necessary. Transfer meat-
  11. balls as browned (and any browned onions that fall from
  12. meatballs) with a slotted spoon to a 7-to-8-quart heavy kettle.
  13. In a large sieve set over a bowl, drain tomatoes reserving juice
  14. and chop. To meatballs add chopped tomatoes with reserved juice,
  15. garlic and oregano and simmer covered, 30 minutes. Transfer
  16. meatballs with a slotted spoon to a bowl and keep warm,
  17. loosely covered with foil. Briskly simmer sauce until reduced
  18. to about 2 cups, about 25 minutes. Season sauce with salt and
  19. to about 2 cups, about 25 minutes. Season sauce with salt and
  20. pepper and gently stir in meatballs.
  21. Meatballs in sauce may be made 3 days ahead and cooled com-
  22. pletely, uncovered, before being chilled, covered. Reheat
  23. meatballs in sauce before serving.
  24. Gently stir parsley into meatballs and sauce. Makes about 110
  25. Meatballs, serving 8 to 10.

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Comments

zena824 1 year, 10 months ago said:
I love this one too.....Awesome... Always love pasta.....

chacha 1 year, 9 months ago said:
Mmmmm, I love meatballs and this recipe looks great to me. Thanks!

mao65 1 year, 8 months ago said:
Yummmm! I love meatballs. Thanks for the great recipe.


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