This delicious Italian classic will satisfy everyone at your dinner table and once you try it, it will likely make it into your regular rotation.
For The Spaghetti Sauce
To keep things simple, this recipe calls for about 2 quarts of tomato sauce. You can use three 24oz/680g jars of store-bought or If you want to make homemade, you can use the sauce from my Spaghetti and Italian Sausage recipe (which is what I use), my Simple Marinara Sauce, or Easy Homemade Tomato Sauce.
Step by Step Instructions
In a small mixing bowl, stir together bread crumbs and milk until they are fully moistened. Set aside. In a small mixing bowl, mix ½ teaspoon baking soda with a tablespoon of water to form a slurry. Set aside. In a large mixing bowl, add the beef, slurry, garlic, parsley, and Parmesan cheese and season with about a teaspoon of salt and freshly grated pepper Add the breadcrumb mixture and mix well with your hands, squeezing the mixture through your fingers Mix until fully combined. Shape mixture with greased hands into even size meatballs, about 1 ½-inches-inches each. Heat olive oil into a large skillet. Add the meatballs about 2 inches apart and brown them until crisp. Do this in batches rather than crowding the pan. For more detailed information on pan-frying meatballs, see my Italian Meatballs post. Once browned, transfer to paper towels to blot. Stir the cooked meatballs into the warmed tomato sauce. Simmer on low heat for at least 5 minutes. The longer they cook the more tender they become and the richer the sauce (on a Sundays mine simmer all day). Serve over freshly cooked Spaghetti. This recipe calls for baking the meatballs. For pan-frying meatballs, see my post for Italian Meatballs. Erren’s Kitchen is written and produced for informational intentions only. We are not certified nutritionists, and the nutritional information found on this site has not been assessed or authorized by a nutritionist or the FDA. The nutritional information found in our recipes is offered as an estimate and should not be considered a guarantee or fact. The estimated data is provided as a courtesy and calculated through a third-party online nutritional calculator, spoonacular API. Although we do our best to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures should be considered rough estimates. Many factors, such as brands or products purchased and the nutritional fluctuations that naturally occur in fresh produce, can alter the effectiveness of the nutritional information in any recipe. Furthermore, various online calculators provide different results depending on their particular algorithms and nutrition fact sources. To obtain the most precise nutritional information in a provided recipe, you should calculate the nutritional information with the exact ingredients you are using when preparing the recipe using your preferred nutrition calculator.
