Meatless Balls in Juicy Tomato Sauce
Meatballs without the meat in a tasty rich tomato sauce.
Yield
4 servingsPrep
16 minCook
52 minReady
100 minTrans-fat Free, High Fiber
Ingredients
| Amount | Measure | Ingredient | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | cups |
bread crumbs
prefer whole wheat |
|
| ½ | cup |
Parmesan cheese
|
|
| 1 | teaspoon |
baking powder
|
|
| ¼ | teaspoon |
salt
or to taste |
|
| 2 | large |
eggs
|
|
| 1 | cup |
milk
|
|
| 4 | tablespoons |
olive oil
or other vegetable oil |
|
| Tomato sauce | |||
| 1 | tablespoon |
olive oil
or canola oil |
|
| 1 | each |
onions
diced |
|
| 2 | cloves |
garlic
minced, or as needed |
|
| 28 | ounces |
tomatoes, canned, crushed
1 can |
|
| 5 ½ | ounces |
tomato paste
1 can |
|
| ½ | cup |
white wine
dry |
*
|
| 1 | teaspoon |
salt
or to taste |
|
| 3 | tablespoons |
basil
leaves, freshly sliced |
|
Ingredients
| Amount | Measure | Ingredient | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| 473 | ml |
bread crumbs
prefer whole wheat |
|
| 118 | ml |
Parmesan cheese
|
|
| 5 | ml |
baking powder
|
|
| 1.3 | ml |
salt
or to taste |
|
| 2 | large |
eggs
|
|
| 237 | ml |
milk
|
|
| 6E+1 | ml |
olive oil
or other vegetable oil |
|
| Tomato sauce: | |||
| 15 | ml |
olive oil
or canola oil |
|
| 1 | each |
onions
diced |
|
| 2 | cloves |
garlic
minced, or as needed |
|
| 809.2 | ml/g |
tomatoes, canned, crushed
1 can |
|
| 159 | ml/g |
tomato paste
1 can |
|
| 118 | ml |
white wine
dry |
*
|
| 5 | ml |
salt
or to taste |
|
| 45 | ml |
basil
leaves, freshly sliced |
|
Directions
Mix together bread crumbs, Parmesan cheese, baking powder and salt, stir in eggs, milk and parsley.
With oiled hands, shape into 20 balls, place on tray.
Refrigerate for half an hour.
For the Tomato Sauce:
In large saucepan, heat oil over medium heat.
Add onion and garlic and cook, stirring often until onion is softened, 3 to 5 minutes.
Add 1½ cups water, tomatoes, tomato paste, wine and salt.
Simmer until thickened, about 25 minutes.
Meanwhile, in large skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat, cook balls and turn often, until golden all over. 4 to 6 minutes.
Use slotted spoon, transfer to sauce.
Cover and simmer until firm inside, about minutes.
Stir in freshly sliced basil leaves.
