ITALIAN BEEF AND SPINACH MEATBALLS (FREEZER FRIENDLY ...
These amazing Italian Beef and Spinach Meatballs would make my husband's Italian family proud! I snuck some spinach in the meatball mix, but I promise even the pickiest of eaters will love them!
Provided by Gina
Categories Dinner
Total Time 40 minutes
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Yield 6
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Wet bread with just enough water (or milk) to wet and then mash up with your hands.
- Add to large bowl and combine with chopped beef, chopped spinach, egg, garlic, parsley, grated cheese, salt and pepper. Mix all ingredients well until thoroughly combined.
- Using a 1/4 cup measuring cup, measure meat and then divide in two so that each meatball is 1/8th of a cup. Roll into little meatballs.
- Make the sauceL In a large pot, add 1 teaspoon olive oil and heat on medium heat.
- When hot add smashed garlic.
- When garlic is golden brown, about 1 to 2 minutes add the tomatoes, onion, salt and pepper and cover, reduce heat to low.
- Meanwhile, in a large nonstick skillet, add 1 tbsp olive oil on low heat.
- When oil is hot add as many meatballs that will fit, cook on low, turning often so that all side get browned. Cook until the centers are cooked through.
- When finished, place on a dish lined with paper towels to blot any excess oil. Drop meatballs into sauce and continue cooking the remaining meatballs, repeating the process. When all meatballs are in the sauce, simmer for an additional 15 minutes. Discard onion and serve.
Nutrition Facts : ServingSize 5 meatballs w/ 4.5 oz sauce, Calories 259 kcal, CarbohydrateContent 15 g, ProteinContent 20.5 g, FatContent 10.5 g, SaturatedFatContent 4 g, CholesterolContent 81 mg, SodiumContent 512.5 mg, FiberContent 2 g, SugarContent 5.5 g
CHEESY SAUSAGE AND BEEF LASAGNA - INSPIRED TASTE
This is the ultimate lasagna recipe. You have two choices here. If you’re up for it, you can make your own sauce, which takes about 2 hours. Or, to save time, you can substitute your favorite store-bought sauce. We have done both. It’s all up to you. Our homemade sauce will make more than what’s needed for one lasagna. Since it takes so long to make the sauce, we always make sure we have enough for a second lasagna or to use, as is, over pasta for another night. You can save the extra sauce in the refrigerator up to 3 days or in the freezer up to 3 months.
Provided by Adam and Joanne Gallagher
Total Time 3 hours 15 minutes
Prep Time 45 minutes
Cook Time 2 hours 30 minutes
Yield Makes approximately 10 servings
Number Of Ingredients 19
Steps:
- If you have sausages with casings, you will need to remove the casings. To do so, take a knife and cut down the length of the sausage. The casing should peel away easily. If you purchased sausage meat without casings, continue to the next step.
- Place a heavy large pot over medium-high heat. When hot, add the sausage and beef and cook until browned, about 10 minutes. As the meat cooks, use a wooden spoon to break the meat apart into small crumbles.
- Stir in the onion and carrots. Cook, stirring occasionally until softened and starting to brown, about 8 minutes.
- Stir in the garlic, basil, oregano, and tomato paste. Cook for 1 minute or until fragrant and the redness of the tomato paste has turned more orange.
- Pour in the water then use a wooden spoon to scrape any bits of meat that have stuck to the bottom of the pot — there’s lots of flavor there. When the pot is almost scraped clean of stuck bits, stir in the canned tomatoes.
- Bring the sauce to a low simmer. Taste then season with salt, pepper, and sugar as needed. We usually end up adding 1 to 2 teaspoons of salt, 1/2 teaspoon of ground pepper and little to no sugar (see notes about sugar). Gently simmer the sauce, uncovered for 1 1/2 hours. (Keep the sauce at a very low simmer). Skim off any fat floating on top and adjust the seasoning as necessary.
- The sauce can be prepared in advance and refrigerated for up to 3 days, or frozen for up to 3 months. This recipe yields about 9 cups of sauce. You will need 4 to 5 cups of sauce for the lasagna. You can save the sauce for a second lasagna or use to top pasta another day.
- Heat oven to 375 degrees F. Bring a large pot of salted water with one tablespoon of olive oil to a boil.
- Add lasagna noodles to the boiling water. Return to a boil, stirring frequently. Cook the pasta, according to package directions, this is usually about 10 minutes. Drain.
- In the meantime, stir ricotta with Parmigiano-Reggiano, and the beaten egg.
- To assemble the lasagna, ladle about 3/4 cup of the meat sauce into the bottom of a 13-inch by 9-inch baking dish. Arrange noodles lengthwise and side by side and cover the bottom. (If the noodles are short on one end, you may need to cut an extra noodle and place into the dish to cover where the other noodles have not).
- Next, spread about half of the ricotta cheese mixture over the noodles. Sprinkle with a third of the shredded mozzarella cheese then top with about 1 1/4 cups of meat sauce. Add another layer of noodles and repeat. Add a third layer of noodles then top with remaining sauce and a final layer of shredded mozzarella cheese.
- Cover loosely with aluminum foil and bake 30 minutes, uncover then bake 20 minutes until cheese is crusty around the edges. Let rest at least 15 minutes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 597, ProteinContent 40 g, CarbohydrateContent 37 g, FiberContent 4 g, SugarContent 7 g, FatContent 32 g, SaturatedFatContent 14 g, CholesterolContent 112 mg, SodiumContent 1582 mg
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