Italian meatballs with tomato sauce

Pasta and meatballs is one of the Italian dishes most loved in the North American East coast. Though northern Italians like meatballs very much, probably not as much as North Americans do.

Italians moved to the United States in large numbers around the beginning of the 20th century, taking their food and recipes with them. North Americans took very quickly to eating Italian dishes and cooking Italian. They adapted many of the recipes to their ingredients and their tastes.

Italian meatballs with tomato sauce recipe

To serve spaghetti with meatballs, cook the spaghetti as the package instructions say. Arrange them on a hot platter. Pour the tomato and meatball sauce over them.

Ingredients

Procedure

1. In a large bowl, thoroughly mix all the ingredients. Form into balls the size you want -1" (2.5 cm) diameter works best.
2. Saute in the olive oil 3-4 minutes, rolling over so the meatballs brown evenly.
3. Add the tomato sauce and sugar, cover, and simmer for 20 minutes.
   

Cooking Tips

Veal is a very lean meat with a very mild flavor, adding some pork makes the meatballs more tender and flavorful. However, you can skip the pork meat altogether and use only veal; or you could skip veal meat and use only pork. You could substitute veal and pork with the same weight of beef, turkey, chicken or lamb.