Recipe: Perfect Meatballs (2 ways) in tomato sauce

Meatballs (2 ways) in tomato sauce. Both methods produce a lighter tasting meatball; still meaty enough to satisfy the dedicated carnivore but not so meaty they overwhelm. Let your taste buds or your. One Pot Creamy Tomato Pasta Sauce and Meatballs is spaghetti and meatballs meets vodka rigatoni, but it's all made neatly in one pot!

Fry a tiny bit to check the seasoning and adjust if necessary. Cover the meatballs and refrigerate until required. While doing that, see steps below for making marinara. You can have Meatballs (2 ways) in tomato sauce using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Meatballs (2 ways) in tomato sauce

1. Prepare of Meatballs (makes 12 medium sized meatballs).
2. It's 1 lbs of ground Italian sausage meat (casings removed).
3. You need 3/4 cup of panko (plus 1/8 cup for coating).
4. Prepare 1/2 cup of milk.
5. You need 1 of egg.
6. It's 1/4 cup of minced green onion (both green and white parts).
7. It's 1/3 cup of minced parsley or cilantro stems (reserve leaves for garnish).
8. You need 1 tsp of onion powder.
9. It's 1 tsp of garlic powder.
10. You need of Salt and pepper.
11. You need of Easy Marinara Sauce.
12. You need 1 tsp of avocado oil (or other similar neutral oil) for frying.
13. You need 1 tbsp of minced onion.
14. Prepare 1 tsp of minced garlic.
15. You need 1/2 tsp of tomato paste.
16. It's 1 of anchovy, diced and crushed in salt.
17. It's 1 Jar of marinara sauce.
18. You need 1 tsp of Italian spice mix (or oregano).
19. It's 1/2 tsp of red chili flakes.
20. You need 1 bunch of baby spinach, chopped.

After the panko has soaked, add all other ingredients. Both of these meatball recipes are great. My kids make one batch of meat, split it in half and cook half in each kind of sauce. The meat mixture is exactly the same and the sauce is enough to cover half a pound of meatballs each.

Meatballs (2 ways) in tomato sauce step by step

1. Make the meatballs mixture: soak the panko in the milk for 30 minutes. While doing that, see steps below for making marinara..
2. After the panko has soaked, add all other ingredients. Mix thoroughly by hand. Divide into 12 smooth balls (smaller than a pool ball, larger than a golf ball) and line them up on parchment paper on a baking sheet/cutting board. Roll 6 balls in leftover panko..
3. Fill 6 spots of a muffin tin with 1 tsp of oil; let the tin heat up in an oven at 350 degrees for 10 mins. Carefully remove the tin, and add the panko crusted meatballs. Add the other 6 meatballs carefully into the sauce you’ve been simmering (instructions below)..
4. Saute onions and garlic. Add tomato paste and anchovy, cook it up. Add all other ingredients except for spinach. Let simmer for at least 1/2 hour. Add spinach at the end..

You can try both, or if you like one more than the other, just double. Return the skillet to the stove. Add the sauce ingredients to your slow cooker. Gently add the meatballs to the sauce. Then plop the defrosted meatballs in the sauce and cook until the meatballs are piping hot all the way through.