Spaghetti with Homemade Meatballs
Homemade meatballs served with store bought sauce makes for an easy gourmet pasta meal!
Servings 4 servings
Ingredients
- 16 oz spaghetti, cooked to package instructions (gluten free friends see link above)
- 2 eggs
- 2 Tablespoons flat leaf parsley, leaves stripped from stems and chopped
- 1 teaspoon each: each: garlic powder, onion powder, dried oregano, sea salt and black pepper
- ½ cup Panko bread crumbs
- ½ cup finely grated parmesan cheese
- 10 oz ground beef
- 10 oz ground pork
- 6 cups your favorite organic spaghetti sauce
- 2-3 Tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 10 basil leaves chopped, for garnish
Instructions
- Set a large pot of salted water to boil. While you wait for water to boil, make meatballs:
- In a bowl whisk together: egg, chopped parsley, spices, bread crumbs and parmesan
- Add meat and combine with hands until well mixed
- Use wet hands to form mixture into twelve 2" meatballs
- In a large sauce pan, heat olive oil until hot but not smoking
- Cook meatballs for five minutes, turning here and there to brown all sides (4-5 minutes) add pasta sauce to pan and bring to a simmer, cooking until meatballs are cooked through (about 5-6 minutes)
- Turn off heat and cover
- Add pasta to water and cook until pasta is al dente, stir occasionally to prevent sticking
- Strain noodles, do not rinse, plate noodles and top with sauce and meat balls. Garnish with chopped basil. Serve with caesar salad linked above and enjoy!