Spicy meatballs
Ingredients
Dumplings
- Olive oil
- 500 g ground pork
- 500 g ground beef
- 150 g fresh white bread (baton), only pulp, without crust
- 2 cloves garlic
- A handful of finely chopped fresh parsley
- 100 g finely grated parmesan
- 2 M size eggs
- Salt and freshly ground pepper, cayenne pepper flakes
Sauce
- 800 g canned good quality chopped tomatoes in their own juice
- 500 g tomato passata (crushed tomatoes) if you don't have it, just use more canned tomatoes
- Olive oil for cooking
- Half a teaspoon of dried cayenne or your favorite chili pepper
- Fresh basil leaves for garnish
Instructions
Dumplings
- Heat the oven to 200 degrees. While the oven is heating, mix all the ingredients well in a bowl. Knead until the mass becomes smooth and does not stick to your hands. Form small balls with wet hands. Place the balls in a baking tray lined with baking paper and slightly oiled (a spray is very useful). Bake for 12 minutes.
Sauce
- Put all the ingredients in a saucepan, bring to a boil, reduce the heat and heat for 10 minutes.
Stew and serve
- Carefully put the meatballs in the sauce, cover the pan with a lid and simmer for half an hour on low heat. Once in a while, move the pan and turn the balls.
- You can eat it with fresh white bread, but it tastes best with spaghetti. Just cook the spaghetti according to the instructions on the package, put it in a deep dish and top it with spicy meatballs with tomato sauce.