Spaghetti with meatballs
Honestly: I’ve always seen this dish in American movies and I always though: Oh my, why do they say it’s an Italian dish??? It is not! At all!!!!!!!!
It’s not really part of our tradition… Maybe in some part of southern Italy, some families, are cooking this kind of pasta sauce, but it’s not really widespread all over the peninsula!
But yet, I’ve never tried it before! And now that I did, well, I’m quite pleased: it’s not bad at all!!!
To be honest, I should have followed The God father recipe: towards the end of the first movie, after Michael killed the people that attempted the life of his father, they are cooking a big pot of meatballs sauce for Spaghetti, and one of the “guys” is telling Michael the secret of it: pork meat in the meatballs, altogether with minced beef.
Well, he couldn’t be more right!
For the meatballs
Equal quantities minced beef and pork sausages (100% pork)
2 tablespoons ricotta
2 tablespoons grated parmesan
Mix all the ingredients together and make little balls.
1 tablespoon of Extra virgin Olive oil
1 onion, chopped
1 jar Organic peeled tomatoes, blended
Few basil leaves
Heat the oil in a pan, add the chopped onion, let it brown slightly, then add the blended tomatoes.
Let it cook for 10 minute, then add the meatballs and let it cook for 30 minutes.
Use it to dress a big bowl of spaghetti!
This dish comes from our grandparents who immigrated to the US from Southern Italy when they were children. I have a great recipe on my site under “Sunday Sauce” if you want to know how we make it. It’s quite different from your recipe.
I’ll be back for another visit :)
Scritto da Maryann, il 31 Gennaio, 2008 at 02:38