Italian Meatball Sauce
Recipe: #22180
December 18, 2015
Categories: Sauce, Tomato/Red Sauces, Ground Beef, Italian, Diabetic, Canned Tomatoes, Beef Dinner, Italian Dinner, Ground Beef Dinner, more
"This is a recipe from a local Italian restaurant (Trattoria Mezzaluna). Italian meatballs are never very big as they are an accent to the pasta. This recipe would be great with fresh slices of Parmesan cheese layered on top of the pasta and sauce."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (416 g)
- Calories 596.3
- Total Fat - 32 g
- Saturated Fat - 8.8 g
- Cholesterol - 188.6 mg
- Sodium - 864 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 38.1 g
- Dietary Fiber - 2.9 g
- Sugars - 7 g
- Protein - 39.2 g
- Calcium - 67.5 mg
- Iron - 6.7 mg
- Vitamin C - 16.8 mg
- Thiamin - 0.3 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Mix the ground beef, half the onion, half the garlic, parsley, egg and salt and black pepper together in a bowl. With dampened hands, shape ground beef mixture into 16 walnut sized balls and roll each ball in flour.
Step 2
In a skillet, heat the oil. Add the remaining onion and saute gently for 4 minutes. Add the remaining garlic and stir for 30 seconds. Add the meatballs and cook, turning occasionally, until browned.
Step 3
Add the tomato sauce and dried oregano to the skillet and simmer for 10 minutes, occasionally turning the meatballs to cover in the sauce. Spoon the sauce over cooked pasta and divide the meatballs among the diners.
Tips
No special items needed.