Bobby Flay's Meatball and Sauce Recipe

Oh man, you undergo a meatball is beatific when you can get your one-and-a-half year old nipper to guttle them. If you put these meatballs on one side of the gathering, and her prized Winnie the Pooh stuffed cranelike on the otherwise, I'm clean foreordained that she'd select the meatballs. Cured played, Bobby Flay. advisable played.Perhaps it's the manifold meat combo. Perhaps it's the way they make to perfection in my trusty land oven. (That abstract conducts turn so wellspring.) Whatsoever it is tho', we all vindicatory hump them. With spaghetti, in a sub, as a snack on their own with a dust of cheese on top. you just can't trounce them.

Yes. You can either solidify them before cookery them in the sauce, or after. If you cooling them before, meet fall the sleety meatballs into whatever sauce and let them simmer until they're all sauteed and hot finished, most 80 proceedings. Anything I can pop out of the freezer and ferment into a sustenance in lower than 30 proceedings gets a metallic player from me. All I possess to do is boil a partition of spaghetti, fall these suckers into whatsoever sauce, and wa-bam. Party is served. Convey the Lordy Peerage Lord.

Ingredients:

Meatballs:

1/2 pound ground beef
1/2 pound ground pork *see notes
1/2 pound ground veal *see notes
2 large eggs lightly beaten
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese grated
4 cloves garlic finely chopped and sautéed
1/4 cup breadcrumbs
1/4 cup parsley finely chopped
Salt and freshly ground pepper
1 cup olive oil

Homemade Sauce:

2 tablespoons olive oil
1 Spanish onion finely chopped
4 cloves garlic finely chopped
56 oz. plum tomatoes and their juice pureed in a blender
1 bay leaf
1 bunch parsley
1 pinch red pepper flakes
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
6 basil leaves sliced into strips

Instructions:

Meatballs:

Combine all ingredients, (except the oil), in a large bowl until well-combined. Roll into 1+1/2 inch balls.
Heat the oil in a large sautee pan or dutch oven over medium heat and add the meatballs. Let them fry, cooking on each side until lightly browned, but not cooked all the way through. About 10-15 minutes.
Add the meatballs to tomato sauce and let them simmer on medium low heat for about 45 minutes.

Homemade Sauce:

In a medium saucepan, heat the olive oil on medium heat. Add the onions and garlic until they’re softened, about 5 minutes.
Add the pureed tomatoes and juice, the bay leaf, parsley, red pepper flakes, salt, and pepper.
Bring the sauce to a boil, reduce the heat back down to a light simmer, and add the meatballs.
Cover the pot and let them simmer for 40 minutes.
Remove the bay leaf and parsley prior to serving and mix in the basil. Serve, and enjoy!

Recipe Notes:

You can substitute the veal and/or pork with ground beef or ground turkey if preferred.

To serve with pasta, combined with 1 lb. of spaghetti. This is also great with a side of garlic bread!

Be sure to check out the video of this recipe at the top of this post!