Easy Recipe: Delicious Spaghetti and Meatballs

Spaghetti and Meatballs. This Spaghetti and Meatball recipe from Delish.com proves everything is better homemade. Thanks to Skillshare for sponsoring this video! Spaghetti and meatballs is such a comfort food classic!

How to Make Spaghetti and Meatballs. There are three parts in making it. The first is to make the meatballs, next is to prepare the sauce, and lastly is to cook the spaghetti. You can cook Spaghetti and Meatballs using 21 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Spaghetti and Meatballs

1. You need 1 of large onion.
2. It’s 1 lb of ground beef.
3. You need 2 of medium sized eggs.
4. You need 1/2 cup of finely grated Parmesan cheese.
5. You need 1 of and 1/2 Tbsp of dried oregano.
6. Prepare 1 of and 1/2 Tbsp of of dried basil.
7. It’s 5 of turns of ground pepper.
8. Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
9. Prepare 4 slices of bread.
10. You need of Approximately 1/2 of milk.
11. It’s 2 Tbsp of olive oil.
12. It’s 4 of large cloves of garlic.
13. It’s 29 oz of tomato sauce.
14. You need 13 oz of tomato paste.
15. You need 28 oz of petite diced tomatoes.
16. Prepare 1 Tbsp of dried oregano.
17. It’s 1/2 Tbsp of dried basil.
18. You need 2 of bay leaves.
19. You need 1 Tbsp of sugar.
20. You need to taste of Salt.
21. Prepare 1 1/2 lbs of spaghetti.

Sprinkle with more Parmesan and serve with some basil (if using) and remaining sauce alongside for topping. The mother of all Italian-American foods, excepting pizza, perhaps, is spaghetti and meatballs. Simple to cook, with easy ingredients and only a little prep work, the dish is somehow marvelously rich. Never eating spaghetti and meatballs again in my life would be pretty devasted.

Spaghetti and Meatballs instructions

1. Cut onion into half rings and line bottom of large fry pan.
2. Place ground beef, eggs, cheese, oregano, basil, salt, and pepper into bowl.
3. Poor milk over bread slices. Squeeze out excess milk from each slice onto remaining slices and crumble into bowl..
4. Mix meatball ingredients by hand until well mixed.
5. Form meatballs into clementine sized balls and place in pan on bed of onions.
6. Add water to pan until it covers onions and reaches bottom of meatballs..
7. Bring water to boil and cover. Steam meatballs for 25 minutes..
8. Sautee garlic in olive oil and let pot cool briefly..
9. Add tomato sauce, tomato paste, diced tomatoes, oregano, basil, bay leaves, sugar, and salt..
10. Use tongs to move a few meatballs and add onions from meatball pan to sauce..
11. Simmer sauce until heated through..
12. Add meatballs to sauce and stir carefully without breaking meatballs.
13. Simmer sauce and meatballs for approximately 30 minutes to mingle flavors.
14. Make spaghetti per package instructions.
15. Combine and enjoy!.

Remove the meatballs when they're brown on the outside but not done on the inside. Making the Best Spaghetti and Meatballs. I don't think there is any doubt that caramelized onions taste better than raw onions, the question is whether the extra effort is worth it. Traditional spaghetti and meatballs is turned into the most amazing baked cheesy casserole ever! A friend told me the other day that he wasn't a fan of spaghetti and meatballs.