Categories: Family Recipes
Ingredients
- 1 pound Ground Beef
- 1 pound Ground Pork
- 1 Pound Ground Veal
- 6 Eggs
- 4 TBSP Grating Cheese
- Plain Bread Crumbs
- 1 Palm full Mint
- Salt
- Pepper
- 2.5 TSP Minced Onion
- 2 Large cans tomato puree
- 36 ounces tomato paste
- Water
- 1/4 Cup Sugar
- 1/8 TSP Baking Soda
- 4.5 TBSP Chopped Onion
- 4 TSP Minced Garlic
- Red Pepper Flakes
Directions
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Take your 3 LBS of ground meat
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Add eggs, cheese, mint and salt and pepper and onion.
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Mush together and add enough bread crumbs until egg is absorbed. It should not be wet.
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Roll meatballs using some water to smooth out
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In a 1 quart sauce pot empty tomato pure and tomato paste. (clean out the cans with water)
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Add enough water until it is just over half full.
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Stir until smooth.
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Add 2 silverware spoons salt and 1/4 cup sugar.
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Turn on heat and bring to full boil.
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When it does lower heat and add baking soda.
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Stir in fully and bring to full boil again, lower heat and add meatballs.
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In a 1 inch fry pan add oil to cover bottom.
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Add chopped onion and garlic.
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Brown quickly and add red pepper flakes. (be careful – this burns easily)
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Add contents of the pan to the sauce.
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Boil water in pan to clean out pan and add that to sauce.
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Bring sauce to a full boil again.
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Cook for 6 hours