Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
Sauce. To prepare the sauce for spaghetti with meatballs in tomato sauce, we will need: sliced tomatoes in their own juice, onion, garlic, 1-2 sprigs of basil, vegetable oil, ground black pepper and salt.
Step 2:
Grate the onion or chop it very finely.
Step 3:
Peel and finely chop the garlic.
Step 4:
Heat olive oil in a frying pan, add garlic, ground pepper and salt. Fry for no more than 1 minute.
Step 5:
Add chopped tomatoes to garlic. Mix it up.
Step 6:
Add basil sprigs to the sauce. Cover the pan with a lid and simmer the sauce for about 20 minutes over low heat.
Step 7:
Meatballs. To prepare meatballs, we will need: minced meat (any, I have lean beef), garlic, egg, cheese, milk, a piece of bread, parsley, grated nutmeg, ground black pepper and salt.
Step 8:
Peel and chop the garlic.
Step 9:
Wash the parsley and chop finely.
Step 10:
Peel a piece of bread from the crust. Soak the bread crumb in milk, then squeeze it out.
Step 11:
Grate the cheese on a fine grater.
Step 12:
In a bowl, combine the minced meat, garlic, bread, grated cheese, egg and chopped parsley. Add salt and pepper, add nutmeg.
Step 13:
Mix everything thoroughly.
Step 14:
With wet hands, form small meatballs from minced meat.
Step 15:
Put the meatballs in tomato sauce. Simmer under the lid for 15-20 minutes. In the middle of stewing, turn the meatballs over.
Step 16:
To make spaghetti, we will need: spaghetti, olive oil and salt.
Step 17:
Boil the spaghetti in salted water with the addition of olive oil according to al dente. Put the pasta in a colander.
Step 18:
Arrange the finished pasta on plates. Put the meatballs on top and pour over the tomato sauce. Serve spaghetti with meatballs to the table, garnished with basil sprigs.
Spaghetti with meatballs in tomato sauce is a convenient dish, as both meat (meatballs) and a side dish (pasta) are prepared at once. If the meatballs with sauce remain, then they can be used with any other side dish.
I used store-bought tomatoes in my own juice. They can be replaced with fresh tomatoes and tomato paste or ketchup.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Onion - 41 kcal/100g
- Tomatoes - 23 kcal/100g
- Chicken egg - 157 kcal/100g
- Egg white - 45 kcal/100g
- Egg powder - 542 kcal/100g
- Egg yolk - 352 kcal/100g
- Ostrich egg - 118 kcal/100g
- Dutch cheese - 352 kcal/100g
- Swiss cheese - 335 kcal/100g
- Russian cheese - 366 kcal/100g
- Kostroma cheese - 345 kcal/100g
- Yaroslavsky cheese - 361 kcal/100g
- Altai cheese 50% fat content - 356 kcal/100g
- Soviet cheese - 400 kcal/100g
- Cheese "steppe" - 362 kcal/100g
- Uglich cheese - 347 kcal/100g
- Poshekhonsky cheese - 350 kcal/100g
- Lambert cheese - 377 kcal/100g
- Appnzeller cheese with 50% fat content - 400 kcal/100g
- Chester cheese with 50% fat content - 363 kcal/100g
- Edamer cheese with 40% fat content - 340 kcal/100g
- Cheese with mushrooms of 50 % fat content - 395 kcal/100g
- Emmental cheese with 45% fat content - 420 kcal/100g
- Gouda cheese with 45% fat content - 356 kcal/100g
- Aiadeus cheese - 364 kcal/100g
- Dom blanc cheese (semi-hard) - 360 kcal/100g
- Lo spalmino cheese - 61 kcal/100g
- Cheese "etorki" (sheep, hard) - 401 kcal/100g
- White cheese - 100 kcal/100g
- Fat yellow cheese - 260 kcal/100g
- Altai cheese - 355 kcal/100g
- Kaunas cheese - 355 kcal/100g
- Latvian cheese - 316 kcal/100g
- Limburger cheese - 327 kcal/100g
- Lithuanian cheese - 250 kcal/100g
- Lake cheese - 350 kcal/100g
- Gruyere cheese - 396 kcal/100g
- Garlic - 143 kcal/100g
- Fresh basil - 27 kcal/100g
- Dried basil - 251 kcal/100g
- Ground black pepper - 255 kcal/100g
- Parsley greens - 45 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Olive oil - 913 kcal/100g
- White bread - 266 kcal/100g
- Spaghetti - 338 kcal/100g
- Nutmeg - 556 kcal/100g
- Ground beef - 254 kcal/100g
