Recipe
Napoli Sunday Meat Sauce
Posted by : laylamohammed13
Preparation time : 1 Hrs 0 Min
Cooking time : 6 Hrs 0 Min
Level of difficulty : Medium
Ingredients
6 servings
- 1 small can of tomato paste
- 3 standard cans tomato sauce
- 1 large(28oz) crushed tomatoes
- oil 2 tablespoons
- salt
- pepper
- garlic powder
- 1lb flat beef (such as scallopini)
- 1lb ground beef
- 1/2 pound sausage
- Beef steak chunks/boneless chuck can be substituted
- 1 egg
- 5 slices white bread or rolls
- tooth picks
Preparation
I learned this recipe from my italian mother and she learned from her mother.my dad used to salivate about it. :-)
first... take a very large pot and out 2 tbsp. oil on the bottom add sausage and meat pieces, brown.
take the flat beef and sprinkle salt , pepper and garlic, then roll them up and stick tooth picks thru them to hold them together, add to pot. let meat brown. when browned, add tomato paste stir around letting it cook for a 1 minute, then add the 3 cans sauce and big can tomatoes, stir on medium heat.
meatballs:
meanwhile take the ground beef, and put it in a large bowl, make most with water, 5 slices white bread and squeeze water out gently, add to meat in bowl breaking it up. then add 1 egg, slat and pepper about 2 teaspoons each and mix all together to make it blended together use clean hands or plastic gloves.shape into large balls about to fit in your hand and fry in oil turning on each side til brown. drop balls in sauce pot directly as they are cooked.
stir gently on medium low heat, and cook all day atleast 4 hours (the longer the better)on low stirring occasionally and shake the pot so as not to break up the meat balls.
it will be thick and rich sauce. to serve take the meat and put it on a platter and serve the suace in a large gravy boat or bowl. serve with any pasta, but suggest rigatoni tubes or speghetti.good with bread and green salad.
Recipe reviews by our members (1 comments)
(Review posted at 19/04/09 12:38)
recipe correction: add a can of water to each can of sauce added. cook on low heat all day
