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Mike's Baked Spaghetti & Meatballs

Name: How to cook Mike's Baked Spaghetti & Meatballs - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

MMOBRIEN

Mike's Baked Spaghetti & Meatballs

You can make your sauce more, "homemade," if you will, by adding 2 pounds of fresh or canned tomatoes instead of the pre-fab Hunts cans listed. However, we find the Hunts Spaghetti Sauce adds much more flavor to this dish and less acidity.

Ingredient

Food ration :

6 servings

Cooking time :

1 hour

1 can

1 lb Hunts Garlic & Herb Spaghetti Sauce

1 can

1 lb Hunts Mushroom Spaghetti Sauce [reserve 1/2 cup]

1 can

14.5 oz Hunts Diced Basil, Garlic & Oregano Tomatoes

1 can

14.5 oz Hunts Diced Rosemary & Oregano Tomatoes

2 can

2.5 oz Sliced Black Olives [drained]

1 can

8 oz Hunts Tomato Sauce

1/3 cup

Grated Parmesan Cheese

1 large

White Onion [chopped]

2 large

Celery Stalks With Leaves [chopped]

1 head

Fresh Garlic Or 1/4 Cup [fine chop]

1 tbsp

Each: Fresh Basil & Parsley [chopped & packed]

1 tbsp

Granulated Garlic Powder - Granulated Onion Powder

1/4 tsp

Each: Fennel - Celery Seed - Oregano

1 tsp

Fresh Ground Black Pepper

1/2 tbsp

Sea Salt

1 box

Spaghetti Noodles [nothing thicker like linguini or you're dish will be too dry upon serving]

1 tsp

Salt & Cooking Oil

1 lb

Fresh Hamburger Meat [80/20]

1 lb

Ground Sausage

2 cup

Italian Breadcrumbs

Fresh Eggs

Fresh Basil [chopped-loose pack]

1/3 cup

Dehydrated Onions

1/2 tsp

Each: Black Pepper-Garlic Powder-Onion Powder - Oregano

1 cup

Shreaded Parmesan Cheese

1 cup

Shreaded Motzerella Cheese [room temp]

1/2 cup

Fresh Basil

1/2 cup

Fresh Parsley

1/4 tsp

Baking Soda [as needed-to reduce acidity]

1 large

Disposable Deep Aluminum Pan

Spray Cooking Oil

2 large

Cooking Pots

Bottle Tabasco

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Add everything in the Spaghetti Sauce Section and simmer for about an hour +. Seasonings not pictured alongside canned goods below.

* Step 2

Authors Note: Your sauce very well may have a metallic or a heavy acidic taste to it due to the high volume of tomatoes within it. If so, bring your pot to a simmer and add 1/4 teaspoon Baking Soda. Mix in and allow sauce to settle. It will foam up and even slightly discolor your sauce but it will return to normal within seconds so no worries! Taste test and add 1/4 teaspoon more if needed. Add 3-4 times @1/4 tsp at the most.

* Step 3

Mix everything in your meatball section and your reserved 1/2 cup of spaghetti sauce very well and roll into any size meatball you desire. I roll mine into oversized quarter sizes and bake for about 20 minutes at 350°.

* Step 4

Heat oven to 350° and bake your meatballs in your disposable pan for 20-35 minutes [depending upon sizes] or until fully cooked. Don't let them dry them out by baking them too long. It's better you undercooked them. Remember, they have to bake in the oven again in that same pan.

* Step 5

In a seperate pot, boil your noodles as per manufactures directions. [usually 8 to 12 minutes] Add 1 teaspoon salt and 1 teaspoon cooking oil to your boiling water before placing noodles in the pot and beginning your boil time.

* Step 6

Drain noodles [do not rinse!] in sink and place your noodles in your spaghetti sauce pot. Drain meatballs as well [on paper towels] and place in that same spaghetti pot. Mix everything well but not so well you break up your meatballs.

* Step 7

Re-spray your disposable pan again [if needed-and on the sides] with cooking oil and pile in your spaghetti and meatballs. Top with garlic powder, Parmesan and Motzerella Cheese and fresh Basil and Parsley.