Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Red meatballs and spaghetti

Cooking duration: 1 hour 20 minutes Introduction: The combination of spaghetti and meatballs is probably one of the best dishes to have ever been invented. The very serving of spaghetti, trying to lift it using a fork is a nice experience. It is both delicious and highly nutritious and it brings the childhood memories when one was trying to life the correct amount of spaghetti from the eating bowl. Ingredients For the meatballs: Ground veal Ground pork Ground beef Fresh white bread crumbs Seasoned dry bread crumbs Chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley Freshly grated Parmesan cheese Kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper Ground nutmeg Eggs Vegetable oil Olive oil For the sauce: Olive oil Chopped yellow onion Minced garlic Red wine Crushed tomatoes Chopped fresh flat leaf parsley Kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper Procedure: 1. Get a huge bowl and put ground meat, parsley, salt, pepper 2. Add nutmeg, egg, bread crumbs and finally water. 3. Mix the combination lightly using a pair of forks 4. Using your hands mould the mixture into meatballs 5. The number of meatballs varies depending on the quantities used 6. Pour into a large frying pan, equal volumes of cooking vegetable oil and olive oil. 7. Heat the two types of oils together 8. Place the meatballs you formed in the hot oil 9. Ensure they become brown on all sides. 10. Turn them carefully side by side using a fork or a spatula 11. Don’t crowd the meatballs; you can always cook them in batches 12. Remove the meatballs from the cooking pot after they have cooked to a plate and have them covered with paper towels 13. Remove the oil from the pan but don’t bother cleaning the pan 14. For the sauce, using the same pan which was never cleaned, heat olive oil 15. Add onions to the pan and frying pan for about five to ten minutes 16. Add garlic to the cooking pan 17. Add wine to the pan and cook now using high heat levels 18. Put the tomatoes, pepper and parsley and stir them. 19. Uncover the meat balls from the paper towels 20. Add them to the frying pan. 21. Cover them with a lid and simmer the cooking meatballs using low temperatures for about half an hour until the meat balls are well cooked 22. Serve the red meat balls while hot with the cooked spaghetti. Note: You can cook the spaghetti according to the directions indicated in the packaging

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