Meatballs – meatballs – are considered a dish in American cuisine, although it would be more accurate to say that this recipe was brought to North America by Italian immigrants. This dish is also very easy to prepare.
Ingredients:
Ground meat:
- Beef – 1 kg.
- Egg – 1 pc.
- Ricotta cheese – 150 g.
- Parsley – 50 g.
- Dijon mustard – 2 tbsp spoons.
- Olive oil – 3 tbsp spoons.
- Garlic – 5 cloves.
- Bulb onions – 3 pcs.
- Salt, spices to taste.
Sauce:
- Tomatoes – 1 kg.
- Onions – 1 pc.
- Garlic – 3 cloves.
- Thyme to taste.
- Bay leaf to taste.
- Tomato paste – 1 tsp.
- Basil to taste.
Preparation:
Pass the beef through a meat grinder, mix the minced meat with all the other ingredients until smooth. Roll small balls from the resulting mass, put on a baking sheet, greased with olive oil. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for 15 minutes. For the sauce: finely chop the onion and fry it over medium heat, add garlic, thyme, bay leaf and tomato paste. Wash the tomatoes, remove the stalks, peel them from the skin, pre-cut and scald with boiling water. Grind in a blender until smooth. Add chopped tomatoes to the onion. Simmer the sauce over low heat for 30-40 minutes, stirring occasionally. Beat the sauce in a blender, after removing the bay leaf from it. Serve meatballs with sauce.
These are the delicious American-Italian balls you get.
It is these recipes that are considered the most popular and at the same time simple meat dishes in the world. So, please yourself and your relatives with such a variety of tasty and healthy meat.
