​By Anton Viktor D. Landicho

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This Spaghetti and meatballs recipe is a really flavorful and tasty dish to make for family dinners! It’s easy to make and is a delicious dish that your family and/or friends will surely enjoy! I learned this recipe from my Tito Dennis, in one of his visits he decided to make dinner for us on a whim and ended up making sensational spaghetti with meatballs that the whole family loved. 

Short summary of the recipe:

For the meatballs, we used a kilo of beef and mixed it with some soaked bread crumbs, a few pinches of salt, pepper, msg, and garlic powder. For the tomato sauce, we started by sauteing some minced garlic and onions in the pan along with some sliced mushrooms and some fresh diced tomatoes. Next, put in your tomato paste, let it brown, put in your canned diced tomatoes, plus tomato sauce and season with some Italian herb seasoning or fresh herbs if you have them on hand (basil, italian oregano, rosemary), salt, and pepper.  



Ingredients:

For meatballs

1-kilo ground beef
1 cup of panko bread crumbs
1 egg

Seasonings:
3 large pinches of salt (or salt to taste)
2 teaspoons of pepper
3 tsp of garlic powder
3 tsp of msg (optional)



Procedure:

Soak the breadcrumbs in some water and form somewhat of a paste

Set aside your paste

Mix your beef with your seasonings

Mix your breadcrumb paste into your beef until well spread out and incorporated

Put in your eggs and mix with the beef

Let your beef rest for 10 minutes in the refrigerator

Once rested form into balls 

Then sear only until browned and set aside

Ingredients for your tomato sauce:

¼ cup olive oil
4 cloves minced garlic
1 large red onion 
1 can of mushrooms(sliced)
3-4 medium sized tomatoes(diced)
1 pack tomato paste
1 can diced or crushed tomatoes

Seasonings:
1 large pinch of salt (salt to your taste)
½ tablespoon of pepper
1 tablespoon of italian herb seasoning



Procedure for Sauce:

Saute your garlic and onions on the same pan where the meatballs were seared 

Put in the mushrooms

Put in your diced tomatoes and let it cook off while the mushrooms and garlic brown and the onions sweat

Put in your tomato paste and let it brown slightly

Mix in your canned tomatoes 

Put in your seasoning

Let it simmer for about 15 minutes

Put in some pasta water, your pasta, and toss. When my Tito Dennis visited, we used fresh pasta for this dish and it made extra spectacular but you can use dry pasta or any preferred pasta.