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Little backstory - my mother used to make meatballs when I was a kid (from scratch).. and they weren't that good. These days, it's easier for me to buy frozen, crappy ones... But, my friend is making hers from scratch and she always had issues - they either break up or too tough, so I want to make them for her. I never made them myself but I feel confident that I can improve on her disasters. Right now, I have no recipe but here are my thoughts so far:
1. meat- 80/20 beef only or 50/50% beef and pork?
2. basic research so far revealed that I have to use dop san marzano tomatoes.
3. Besides tomatoes, little sugar, what else to add? My thought was to use as base onions, celery, carrots (grated). Garlic, pepper flakes and tomato paste. Missing dry/fresh herbs? Cook maybe 30 minutes.
4. Then make meatballs.. nothing to add yet, except I'd like to fry them dark brown add then finish cooking in sauce another 30minutes.
Please share your thoughts. Ideally, i'd like to be something I can cook gallon at a time, freeze and have her pick it up and use for later...
TIA
Little backstory - my mother used to make meatballs when I was a kid (from scratch).. and they weren't that good. These days, it's easier for me to buy frozen, crappy ones... But, my friend is making hers from scratch and she always had issues - they either break up or too tough, so I want to make them for her. I never made them myself but I feel confident that I can improve on her disasters. Right now, I have no recipe but here are my thoughts so far:
1. meat- 80/20 beef only or 50/50% beef and pork?
2. basic research so far revealed that I have to use dop san marzano tomatoes.
3. Besides tomatoes, little sugar, what else to add? My thought was to use as base onions, celery, carrots (grated). Garlic, pepper flakes and tomato paste. Missing dry/fresh herbs? Cook maybe 30 minutes.
4. Then make meatballs.. nothing to add yet, except I'd like to fry them dark brown add then finish cooking in sauce another 30minutes.
Please share your thoughts. Ideally, i'd like to be something I can cook gallon at a time, freeze and have her pick it up and use for later...
TIA