Ina Garten Makes Her Top-Rated Meatballs and Spaghetti | Barefoot Contessa | Food Network

okay so two tablespoons of freshly minced parsley I need about a half a cup of grated Parmesan cheese I think it's unusual and meatballs but I think it gives it lots of flavor all these ingredients are designed to either flavor it or hold it together so I'm just gonna beat it a little bit pour it on top now some seasoning quarter of a teaspoon of nutmeg two teaspoons of salt half a teaspoon of pepper and here's the surprising part warm water 3/4 of a cup I sure learned this trick from Rao's that famous Italian restaurant in New York and it keeps the meatballs so moist you wouldn't believe in okay clean hands cooks best tool and you want to do this really lightly you don't want to sort of compact it you want to fluff it up and still mix them together oh this smells so good so this is gonna make about 16 really good sized meatballs I'm just perfect for my guess so I've got a quarter of inch of oil 1/2 olive oil and 1/2 vegetable oil and it's gonna saute these and just keep turning them so they Brown evenly on all sides I'm going them in two batches so I don't want to overcrowd them so they Brown nicely [Music] it's the second batch of news boss you've done ten minutes until they're nice and brown and then I'm gonna finish cooking them in tomato sauce okay I'm just gonna pour off all the oil that I used for cooking the meatballs so I'm gonna use the same pan it's got all of that great flavor from their meatballs fresh oil 1 cup of onions it's one or two onions depending on how big they are and they're gonna cook for 10 minutes until they're really tender and flavorful and now I need some wine for the sauce ok one and a half teaspoons of garlic I do the garlic at the end because it burns really quickly mmm you can smell the garlic immediately that's wonderful okay have a couple of red wine deglaze the pan get all those really crusty bits from the meatballs really flavors the sauce it cleans the pan too one 28-ounce can of crushed tomatoes okay that's great that tablespoon of parsley and a half teaspoons of salt one and a half teaspoons of pepper we're gonna cook that together for a minute okay so now what I'm gonna do is take the meatballs and just put them right back into the sauce and they're gonna cook for about 25 to 30 minutes now I'm get to put them all in nice tomato sauce and meatballs hey bunch of basil right in the middle big spoons can't wait to see their faces you

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Length: 4min 31sec (271 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 13 2020