Italian Meatball Sauce
Created by celticevergreen on December 18, 2015
- Servings: 4
- Prep Time: 15m
- Cook Time: 25m
- Recipe #22180
Ingredients
- 1 pound cooked pasta
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 yellow onion (fine chopped)
- 1 large garlic clove, finely chopped
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley
- 1 extra-large egg (beaten)
- Flour, for dusting
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 cups tomato sauce
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- Salt and black pepper, to taste
How to Make
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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.
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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.
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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.
Nutritional Facts
- 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