Best 6 Italian Meatballs And Sauce Recipes

SUNDAY GRAVY (REAL ITALIAN SPAGHETTI SAUCE)AND MEATBALLS

Steps:

• SAUCE: Heat oil in large heavy pot (use a seasoned pot if you have one). Place the pork in the pot and brown until just about cooked. Transfer pork to plate. Do the same with the sausage and transfer to plate. Leave fat in pot. Add whole peeled garlic cloves cook until tender. Put garlic on plate with meat and stir in tomato paste until "saucy". Chop up tomatoes leaving the tomato juice in the cans (I use my chopper) and add them to the pot.
• Then add 1/2 of one can of the juice to the pot. Add salt and pepper to taste. Add the meats and garlic to the sauce and bring to a boil. Turn down to low and cook for about 1 1/2 hours. Leave the sauce on low and remove all the meat and garlic cloves.
• Mix all ingredients for meatballs and shape into balls. Add to sauce turn up just a little higher than low and let cook the raw meatballs until they are done (1/2 hour) THATS IT!
• Now this is an old recipe, but I have seen it in the sopranos cookbook and this is a bit different.
• I used this sauce to make the ziti al forno from the sopranos cookbook (Recipe #73939) and it was the most amazing thing I have ever eaten, so I posted that too.

ITALIAN MEATBALLS AND SAUCE

Steps:

• Lightly brown onion in oil, then add the rest of sauce ingredients.
• Meanwhile, mix together all meatball ingredients. If too thick, add a little milk. Roll into small balls.
• Add uncooked meatballs to sauce and simmer for about 2 hours.

ITALIAN TOMATO SAUCE WITH MEATBALLS AND SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Lightly coat bottom of a large 8 quart stock pot with Olive oil(roughly 3-4 Tbs.) Starting with a higher heat,heat oil and add onions. Stir to coat and cook 1-2 minutes. Add garlic and cook till all are soft not browning. Add two cans of crushed tomatoes. Lower heat just a bit to avoid splatting. With your hands crush the whole tomatoes into smaller pieces in a large bowl, leaving some larger pieces.(this adds the love) Add to pot. Stir and cook 1-2 minutes. Add 2 cans of tomato sauce. Use water to rinse out large cans and add the tomato paste to the water in the large can and stir to dissolve. Add to the pot and stir well. Add basil, oregano and sugar, salt and pepper. Bring back to a bubble and lower heat and simmer.
• Bake 2-3 lbs. Sweet Italian Sausage in a 350 degree oven for 45 minutes. Add to sauce.
• Do not clean the pan.
• Make My Italian Meatballs #105179 then add to pan from sausage to bake. Add to sauce and continue to simmer 1-2 hours.
• Serve over your favorite pasta. Enjoy!

ITALIAN SPAGHETTI SAUCE WITH MEATBALLS, SAUSAGE AND STEW BEEF

Steps:

• Pour oil into skillet. Cook stew beef, sausages and ribs until brown.
• Add onion and continue to cook until the onions turn golden brown.
• Remove all meats except for the beef and put them in a dish and cover to keep warm. Add beef, onions, tomato paste, water, and spices, to a heavy bottomed dutch oven, mixing well.
• Cover and cook 1½ hours. Return meats to pan and cook an additional ¾ hours.
• Add warm water to the dry bread. Squeeze out 2 handfuls and put into large bowl.
• Add hamburg, eggs, Romano cheese, garlic salt and pepper.
• Mix all of the Meatball's ingredients together. Shape into meatballs and add to sauce 25 minutes before the sauce is done. Watch carefully for burning.

HOMEMADE ITALIAN SPAGHETTI SAUCE AND MEATBALLS

Steps:

• 1. This makes a lot of sauce, so you will need a very large soup pot with a good weight to it.
• 2. Cover the bottom of the pan with olive oil (you want just enough to barely cover the bottom of the pan) begin to warm the oil gently.
• 3. Place peeled garlic cloves in oil, on low heat cook cloves until just starting to lightly blister. Do not let the garlic brown or burn. Remove garlic.
• 4. Add tomato paste, one can at a time, thoroughly incorporating the olive oil into the tomato paste each time. I find this is easier to do with a wire whisk.
• 5. Add tomato puree mixing thoroughly. Add tomato sauce and mix well.
• 6. At this point, some water can be added, as the sauce will be cooking for at least 6 hours and will thicken as it cooks. I wouldn't add more than 2 of the paste cans full of water. Mix well.
• 7. Add Italian seasoning, garlic powder, bay leaves, and salt. Additional cloves of garlic can be added. depends on how garlicky you want the sauce.
• 8. Cover pan with lid cocked and simmer on low for at least 6 hours. Stirring occasionally, to keep the sauce from sticking to the bottom. While the sauce is getting hot, mix together the meatballs, see below.
• 9. My mother used veal in her meatballs. The price of veal is so expensive I have started using ground sirloin and ground chuck. The rule of thumb here is to use 2 parts lean veal or sirloin to 1 part ground chuck.
• 10. Mix together, ground sirloin (or veal), ground chuck, finely diced onion, garlic, Italian seasoning, ground black pepper, parsley, bread crumbs, Parmesan cheese, and eggs.
• 11. Using a spoon (I like to use my large cookie scoop), take a good amount of meat mixture and roll in the palm of your hand, forming a ball. The meatballs should hold together and be about the size of a golfball. I like to get a plateful of meatballs made then drop them into the hot sauce. Then go back and make another plateful to be dropped in the sauce. Repeat until all meatballs have been added to the sauce. Gently, so as not to break up meatballs, push and stir the sauce to get the meatballs down into the sauce.
• 12. Cover with lid cocked, so steam can escape and thicken the sauce. Simmer on low on the stovetop. After about 1/2 hour check the meatballs and stir carefully, making sure the meatballs do not stick. The sauce and meatballs should cook for at least 6 hours or longer if you like. About 1 hr before serving add a pinch of sugar and stir well, being careful not to break up the meatballs. Add the Parmesan cheese. Mom never stirred the cheese into the sauce, she just let it melt into the sauce. Be careful after adding the sugar and cheese, as they could cause the sauce to stick on the bottom. Remove bay leaves before serving.
• 13. Serve sauce and meatballs over hot cooked pasta and a sprinkle of Parmesan cheese on top.

ITALIAN MEATBALLS AND SAUCE

Steps:

• 1. For the sauce: Heat oil in a large dutch oven over medium heat. Add the ribs and brown evenly. Add onions, sprinkle salt and cook until onions are translucent. Add garlic and gook until everything is soft but not browned.
• 2. Add the wine or broth and deglaze the bottom of the pan. Add tomatoes, oregano, red pepper flakes (if using)and bay leaf. Bring the sauce to a simmer, reduce heat to low and continue to cook until reduced, about 6 hours.
• 3. Taste and add more salt if needed. Remove the bay leaf. Makes about 2 quarts.
• 4. For the Meatballs: Soak the bread in the milk in a medium bowl. In a small saute pan add 1 TBS of oil, the garlic and shallots and cook until translucent.
• 5. In a separate bowl, combine the beef and bulk sausage, ricotta, basil, parsley, parmesan cheese, salt, egg and the cooked shallots and garlic.
• 6. After the bread has soaked up the milk, remove it from the bowl and squeeze out the remaining liquid. Add to the meat mixture. Mix well.
• 7. Form the meat mix into 2 inch balls and cook in the remaining olive oil. Cook until they are brown on all sides.
• 8. Add the meatballs to a large pot as they are done browning. Once done add the sauce over the top of the meatballs. Bring to a simmer. let cook in sauce for about an hour. I usually cover them for the first half then uncover them for the remaining time. Serve over pasta..ENJOY!