Meatball and Tomato Sauce
Recipe: #12020
February 03, 2014
Categories: Comfort Food, Dinner, Main Dish, Sauce, Tomato/Red Sauces, Beef, Ground Beef, Game, Moose, Italian, Budget-Friendly, Easy/Beginner Cooking, Kid Pleaser, Make-Ahead, Birthday, Entertaining, Fall/Autumn, Father's Day, Mother's Day, Potluck, Regional Holiday, Summer, Sunday Dinner, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, Winter, Weeknight Meals, Oven Bake, Slow Cooker, Stove Top, Gluten-Free, High Protein, Non-Dairy, Wine, Canned Tomatoes, Venison, Spring more
"This is an old family favourite here. For gluten free use gluten free bread crumbs and beef bouillon powder and serve over you favourite gluten free pasta. I also use this recipe for meatball subs."
Original recipe yields 7 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (513.3 g)
- Calories 646.8
- Total Fat - 34 g
- Saturated Fat - 11.8 g
- Cholesterol - 189 mg
- Sodium - 1563.2 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 30.4 g
- Dietary Fiber - 4.6 g
- Sugars - 10.1 g
- Protein - 51.8 g
- Calcium - 96.9 mg
- Iron - 7.7 mg
- Vitamin C - 29.3 mg
- Thiamin - 0.5 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Pour the wine in a large bowl and add the bread crumbs, dehydrated onion, bouillon powder and garlic powder. Allow to sit for 5 minutes.
Step 2
Add the ground meat, egg, 1 teaspoon of the oregano and 1 teaspoon of the hot pepper flakes; mix well.
Step 3
Form into 24 -1 1/2 inch meatballs.
Step 4
Brown the meatballs in a skillet or on a baking sheet in the oven.
Step 5
In the meantime, mix the remaining ingredients together in a 5 qt crock-pot.
Step 6
Gently toss in the meatballs and cook on low- heat for 8 hours or high-heat for 5 hours.
Step 7
Serve over pasta or use for meatball subs.
Tips & Variations
No special items needed.
