How to make spaghetti & meatballs ! Easy and delicious spaghetti recipe .| Joyful Cook .

ground beef

🥗Healthier: ground turkey

💰Cheaper: ground pork

Ground turkey is lower in fat, while ground pork is often less expensive.

parmesan cheese

🥗Healthier: nutritional yeast

💰Cheaper: grated cheese blend

Nutritional yeast is lower in calories and adds a cheesy flavor, while a cheese blend can be more budget-friendly.

Trim the crust from the bread and chop it into small pieces.

Transfer the chopped bread into a bowl and add room temperature water, stirring to soak the bread for about 5 minutes.

Mash the soaked bread with a fork until it is broken down.

Add ground beef to the mashed bread (prepared from scratch using a blender or food processor).

Add eggs, parmesan cheese, minced garlic, chopped onion, parsley, salt, and pepper to the mixture and mix thoroughly with hands, being careful not to over mix.

Roll the mixture into meatballs and set aside.

Heat olive oil in an enamel pan and add the meatballs, cooking for about 2 minutes on each side until browned but not cooked through.

Add more oil to the pan if necessary and fry chopped onion for about 1 minute until fragrant.

Add minced garlic and stir for about 10 seconds.

Add homemade spaghetti sauce (prepared from roasted tomato mix) and preferred spices like bay leaf and oregano, adjusting seasoning if necessary.

Gently mix in the meatballs with the sauce and loosen the mixture with chicken stock, letting it simmer for about 5 minutes.

In a separate pot of boiling water, add spaghetti and cook until al dente (about 4 to 5 minutes).

Drain the spaghetti and transfer it into the sauce, mixing everything well with two spatulas if necessary.

Let the spaghetti and sauce simmer together on medium-low heat for another 2 to 3 minutes to combine flavors.

Finish with chopped spring onion or parsley before serving.

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