top of page
header-new-2.png

2 Dollar Spaghetti and Meatballs (But Cheaper)

Spaghetti and meatballs should be an unforgettable experience that costs you little money to make. We’re going to do that today....

  • ulises985
  • Oct 14, 2021
  • 2 min read

Updated: Oct 28, 2021

Spaghetti and meatballs should be an unforgettable experience that costs you little money to make. We’re going to do that today.



INGREDIENTS:

Spaghetti:

  • 3 cups (450g) Flour

  • 5 whole eggs

  • 1/2 tsp (4g) fine sea salt

  • 1 tsp (4g) extra virgin olive oil


Meatballs:

  • ¼ lb (123g) finely chopped mortadella

  • 1 lb (454g) ground beef

  • 1 tsp (2g) finely ground fennel seed (optional)

  • 1 ¾ tsp (12g) fine sea salt

  • 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped

  • 1/4 cup (20g) fresh grated pecorino or parmesan

  • black pepper to taste

  • ½ cup (35g) panko bread crumbs crushed tell mostly fine

  • 1 whole egg

Sauce:

  • ¼ cup (50g) extra virgin olive oil - 50g

  • 4 cloves garlic, thinly sliced

  • 1 tsp (2g) red pepper flakes

  • 1 28 oz can crushed tomatoes

  • 1 bunch of basil

  • freshly grated Parmigiano for serving

  • chiffonade basil for serving


INSTRUCTIONS:

Spaghetti:

  1. 1 lb Spaghetti (Use recipe from the book)


Meatballs:

  1. In a bowl, place your chopped mortadella, combine it with the ground beef, fennel seed, salt, garlic, parmesan cheese, and black pepper, mix it well, and add the panko and eggs and mix again until emulsified and tacky.

  2. Use a large cookie scoop to make the meatballs, around twenty, place them on a sheet tray and roll them into balls.

  3. In a large sautee pan, over medium-high, pour enough olive oil to cover the bottom of the pan; once the oil is hot, add all the meatballs in one single layer, and sear for about two minutes, flip and sear one or two more sides, until golden brown. (it’s okay if there are not cook all the way) Remove the meatballs from the pan and reserve.

Sauce:

  1. In the same pan where the meatballs were cooked, reduce the heat to medium, add the garlic, and sautee for about five minutes, add the pepper flakes, saute for thirty seconds and add your crushed tomatoes—stir season with salt and a pinch of sugar. Then add the meatballs, bring them to a simmer, and reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer for five to eight minutes. Halfway through this process, add the basil, slightly bruised, let it cook until the meatballs cook all the way through.

  2. Reserve one cup of sauce for plating.


Assembly:

  1. Place spaghetti in a pot of boiling water that has been seasoned generously with salt. Cook according to package instructions or until done. (do not drain the pasta)

  2. Using tongs, pick up the pasta, let it drain slightly, add it to your sauce until all your pasta all pasta has been added, and add a couple of splashes of your pasta water. Toss it together until all the pasta is coated evenly in the sauce.

  3. Place one portion of pasta in a shallow bowl, pour some sauce on top and two or three meatballs, grate some fresh pecorino or parmesan cheese, and finally, some chiffonade fresh basil.

11 Comments


PScarlettjOnidaj
Apr 20

The link repeater itself sounds really strong despite the link bulky rose gold case that should – in theory – dampen it. But it's also possibly the limiting factor for the watch, being a 20m water-resistant "Offshore." And that's part of the appeal to me. I love contradictions like this – an Offshore I wouldn't take in the link water is maybe the biggest contradiction of them all.

Like

PScarlettjOnidaj
Apr 19

A brief cruise through his Instagram shows his passion for sector dials (and "roulette" dials) and link the ton of "not link for sale" listed behind his rare finds. Many dealers will tell you that they feel like they can't, in good conscience, keep the best things for themselves. Their clients might get link frustrated if they can't buy the best of the best. But Nagayama is clear: he can find really good stuff for clients, but he wants some of it for himself too. "I'm a collector," he says.

Like

UOrieloRadfordo
Mar 21

In the meantime, the Deep Space Atomic Clock experiment now in progress will link set the stage for the tools necessary to make more extensive unmanned, and eventually manned, link exploration of the Solar System possible. It's very much a human enterprise, driven by human curiosity and human ingenuity, of which the remarkable story of the evolution of navigation is link an essential element.

Like

Tero Crown
Tero Crown
Jul 25, 2024

Excellent write-up. Your insights are very valuable. https://solarexperts.medium.com/renu-energy-solutions-review-d899eac8a0a3

Like

N H
N H
Jul 27, 2023

How many does this serve?

Like
N H
N H
Jul 28, 2023
Replying to

He says so in the video, 5 people! I made it for my D&D group yesterday before running the session, was a success! Though I made it a little too salty lol. It came down to $4 a dish, so I guess inflation made it more expensive? (I used cheaper meat than mortadella)

Like

Let's Get Cooking

Recent Recipes

bottom of page