Recipes
Spaghetti with Meatballs
Make this delicious spaghetti with meatballs for lunch or dinner!
Ingredients
- •Ground meat (500 g)
- •1/2 onion (50 g)
- •1 egg (55 g)
- •1/2 cup breadcrumbs (40 g)
- •2 cloves garlic (7 g)
- •Salt to taste
- •Black pepper to taste
- •Oil as needed
- •1 onion (110 g)
- •2 cloves garlic (8 g)
- •2 bay leaves
- •Salt to taste
- •Black pepper to taste
- •1 tomato (140 g)
- •Ready-made tomato sauce (340 g)
- •1/4 cup water (60 ml)
- •500 grams spaghetti
- •Water
- •Salt
Instructions
- 1
To make the meatballs, place the ground meat, onion, garlic, breadcrumbs and egg in a bowl. Season with salt and pepper to taste and knead thoroughly with your hands for a few minutes, until the mixture holds together well. Knead well, as this develops the collagen in the meat and helps the meatballs keep their shape without breaking apart during frying.
- 2
Using your hands, shape the mixture into meatballs about the size of a ping-pong ball.
- 3
Add just enough oil to a frying pan to cover the bottom; you do not need much. Add the meatballs, fry on one side, then turn them over. Shake the pan occasionally until the meatballs are well browned on all sides.
- 4
Set the meatballs aside and add the onion to the same pan, without cleaning it. Sauté well.
- 5
Once the onion has softened, add the garlic, stir, then add the chopped tomato and bay leaves.
- 6
Season with salt and black pepper to taste.
- 7
Stir until the tomato starts to break down, then add the tomato sauce and water. Return the meatballs to the pan and let the sauce reduce for a few minutes.
- 8
Cook the spaghetti according to the package instructions.
- 9
When the spaghetti is cooked to your liking, drain it and spoon the sauce and meatballs over it.
- 10
Serve immediately.