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Spaghetti and Meatballs in Tomato Sauce

This dish takes a little time, but it's worth it. If you like, you can add the cooked pasta right into the pan with the meatballs and toss gently — that gives you a more all-in-one dish.

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 23 % 9 g
Fats 23 % 9 g
Carbohydrates 54 % 21 g
205 kcal
GI: 10 / 90 / 0

Cooking method

  1. Step 1:

    Step 1

    The sauce. For the tomato sauce you'll need: diced tomatoes in their juice, an onion, garlic, 1–2 sprigs of basil, olive oil, ground black pepper, and salt.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2

    Grate the onion or chop it very finely.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3

    Peel and finely chop the garlic.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4

    Heat the olive oil in a skillet, add the garlic, ground pepper, and salt. Cook for no more than 1 minute.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5

    Add the diced tomatoes to the garlic. Stir.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6

    Add the basil sprigs to the sauce. Cover the pan and simmer over low heat for about 20 minutes.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7

    The meatballs. For these you'll need: ground meat (any kind — I'm using lean beef), garlic, an egg, cheese, milk, a slice of bread, parsley, grated nutmeg, ground black pepper, and salt.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8

    Peel and mince the garlic.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9

    Wash the parsley and chop it finely.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10

    Cut the crust off the slice of bread. Soak the crumb in milk, then squeeze it out.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11

    Grate the cheese on the fine side of a grater.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12

    In a bowl, combine the ground meat, garlic, bread, grated cheese, egg, and chopped parsley. Season with salt and pepper and add the nutmeg.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13

    Mix everything thoroughly.

  14. Step 14:

    Step 14

    With wet hands, shape the meat mixture into small meatballs.

  15. Step 15:

    Step 15

    Set the meatballs into the tomato sauce. Cover and simmer for 15–20 minutes, turning them over halfway through.

  16. Step 16:

    Step 16

    For the spaghetti you'll need: spaghetti, olive oil, and salt.

  17. Step 17:

    Step 17

    Boil the spaghetti in salted water with a splash of olive oil until al dente. Drain the pasta in a colander.

  18. Step 18:

    Step 18

    Divide the pasta among plates. Top with the meatballs and spoon over the tomato sauce. Serve, garnished with basil sprigs.

  • Spaghetti and meatballs in tomato sauce is a handy dish, since it gives you the meat (the meatballs) and the side (the pasta) all at once. If you have meatballs and sauce left over, they're great with any other side. I used store-bought tomatoes in their juice; you can swap in fresh tomatoes plus 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

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