Garlic and Cheese Meatballs

Name: Spaghetti & Fancy Pants Meatballs
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 75 min
Ingredients: 2 pounds ground meat; 2 cups parmigiano cheese (shredded ); 15 ounce ricotta cheese; 6 tsp garlic (='s 6 cloves rough chopped ); 1 cup bread crumbs; ¼ cup pepperoni ( ¼ inch cut pieces); ¼ cup basil (chopped fresh); 4 oz eggs (='s 2 eggs); 12 oz angel hair pasta (='s 1 pack ); 1 tsp salt; 2 tbs olive oil; 1/2 tbs basil (chopped garnish)

Spaghetti & Meatballs Texas Butter Recipe

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Spaghetti & Fancy Pants Meatballs

Tweaked out meatballs turned out pretty good if ya love garlic n cheese. Easy to knock out and depending on the head count of your herd, plenty leftover to freeze or make some sandwiches. Keep reading

The gravy is homemade and one I hope to figure out how to make available. Always stretched for the time making my own doesn't happen often. Personally, I like Prego gravy in a pinch but whatever you dig go with that one. Note there is no salt added to balls because I figured the parm and pepperoni would take care of it. It did.

Course Main Course

Style Italian

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 1 hour

Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes

Servings

Calories 1488kcal

Author Shawn

Ingredients

Ball Parts

2 pounds ground meat
2 cups parmigiano cheese (shredded )
15 ounce ricotta cheese
6 tsp garlic (='s 6 cloves rough chopped )
1 cup bread crumbs
¼ cup pepperoni ( ¼ inch cut pieces)
¼ cup basil (chopped fresh)
4 oz eggs (='s 2 eggs)

Other Parts

12 oz angel hair pasta (='s 1 pack )
1 tsp salt
2 tbs olive oil
1/2 tbs basil (chopped garnish)

USA - Euro

Instructions

Ball Bake

Start oven at 350 degrees
Take a cookie sheet and lay parchment paper over it.
If you have a grate that will fit on cookie sheet put that on there too.. Otherwise you can put balls on parchment.
Get out a pretty good sized bowl.
Scramble eggs in a smaller bowl.
Dump all the “Ball Ingredients” in large bowl (eggs too).
Mix well with hands. This will take a little time and make hands frosty. Keep going champ mix it good.
Roll ball mixture to whatever size you want. Mine are about 2 ½ inches.
Place evenly on cookie sheet until full.
Throw in oven and cook for 30 minutes and check for problems.
Shut door and cook for another 30 minutes.
Done

Have it your way 🙂

Fill pot of water to boil pasta.
Add some olive oil. This will help it not stick together.
Add salt, don’t be scared. When I boil pasta I make the water semi salty. Not brine but taste-able.
Cook pasta according to the package.
Strain, add another drip or 2 of olive oil, and stir into pasta.
Plate everything up. Sprinkle some parm and fresh basil.
Wala!

Notes

Woops! Just realized there is no Texas Butter in here…

➕ Nutrition

Nutrition Facts

Spaghetti & Fancy Pants Meatballs

Amount Per Serving (355 g)

Calories 1488 Calories from Fat 756

% Daily Value*

Fat 84g129%

Saturated Fat 36g225%

Cholesterol 354mg118%

Sodium 1869mg81%

Potassium 1068mg31%

Carbohydrates 89g30%

Fiber 4g17%

Sugar 4g4%

Protein 87g174%

Vitamin A 1115IU22%

Vitamin C 1.6mg2%

Calcium 946mg95%

Iron 8.2mg46%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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Hay yall! Don’t be afraid to adjust or substitute ingredients to your taste. These recipes didn’t come from a written measured recipe. They are made, noted, measured on the fly, then pumped up here when time permits and most importantly only if they tasted good.

If you don’t have any Texas Butter I guess we’ll overlook it if you use what’s in your pantry. Be sure to ask how something turned out or you have questions. Expect grammar errors, these are not checked much other than what my browser flags. Well, in general I can’t spell worth a crap. Thanks – Shawn

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