Spaghetti Meatballs

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I guess my recipe list is really useful during long holidays. The fact that we are stuck here at home, we really made used of that list and it helped us to budget our grocery finances.

Our yesterday’s classic recipe was so easy and surely be loved by everyone. Spaghetti Meatballs may not a be a genuine Filipino style of cooking spaghetti in our kitchen, yet doing the sauce will surely justify that it is a real Filipino style sauce.

I always have ready stock of ingredients for this recipe. Since having such ingredients in the fridge can inspire me to do so many other easy recipes. So, let’s get busy!

Ingredients:

• ¼ kg ground beef
• 3 tablespoon garlic – minced
• 3 tablespoon onion – minced
• 1 + 1 + ½ teaspoon fine salt
• 1 + 1 teaspoon fine ground pepper
• 3 cups Filipino Style Del Monte tomato sauce
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 250 grams Spaghetti Pasta
• Oil
• water

Procedure:

1. Boil water with 1 teaspoon salt.
2. Put the pasta and let it cook until tender. Drain and set aside.
3. Mix ground beef, garlic, onion, 1 teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon ground pepper.
4. Make round balls from the beef mixture. About 1 ½ in diameter.
5. Heat oil and fry meat balls on a pan with medium high fire for about 5-7 minutes or until its golden brown. Once cook, pat dry on a paper towel. Set aside.
6. On a new sauce pan, heat the tomato sauce and season with sugar, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon ground pepper. Let it simmer for 5 minutes.
7. Put in the meatballs  and simmer for another 3 minutes.
8. Put the meatball sauce on top of the pasta and serve.
9. Enjoy!