Pasta With Meatballs Recipe
A delicious pasta recipe with meatballs, the way mom makes it.
Equipment
- Tomato Puree product information | Mutti US
Ingredients
- 500 g Ground veal or beef 1lb
- 500 g Pasta 1.1 Lb
- 2 Eggs
- 4 Tablespoons of breadcrumbs
- 2 Tablespoons of milk
- A bunch of parsley
- 70 g of Parmesan cheese 1/2 cup
- Basil
- Parmesan cheese
- Salt & pepper as needed
For the Sauce
- 1 Bottle tomato puree 700g / 24.5 Oz
- 1 Garlic
- 1 Onion
- 2 Tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
- 5 Basil leaves
- Salt & pepper as needed
Instructions
- In a large bowl, mix the minced meat with the breadcrumbs, add the eggs, parmesan cheese, milk, salt, pepper and parsley. You should get a soft but firm dough. If it is too soft, add more breadcrumbs. If dry, add a few tablespoons of milk.
- Mix all the ingredients together well. With damp hands, break off pieces of dough and begin to form meatballs.
- In a non-stick skillet, pour a generous swirl of olive oil and add a clove of garlic to flavor the oil. As soon as the garlic begins to sauté, add the meatballs and brown them in the oil on both sides.
- When they are ready, set the cooked meatballs aside and let's move on to making the sauce.
- Dice the onion. In a pan with two tablespoons of oil, add the onion and a clove of garlic, and let them soften for about 5 minutes. You can remove the garlic if you prefer.
- When they are well softened, pour in the tomato puree. In the same bottle of the puree add about 3/4 of water and add it to the puree, then add the basil and cook for about 15 minutes.
- Place all the meatballs in the tomato puree and cook for 5 minutes over medium heat, then turn the heat down to low and let it cook for about 10 more minutes.
- In the meantime, boil the water for the pasta. When it starts to boil, add the salt to the water. When it boils, cook the pasta.
- Cook the pasta in the time indicated by the package, then drain directly into the pot with the sauce and meatballs.
- Saute the drained pasta over high heat in the sauce pan for a few minutes, turning frequently. Add more basil.
