Italian style pasta with meatballs 🍝

Kitchen appliances and utensils: garlic press, hob, grater, thick-walled pan.

Ingredients

Step cooking

Cutlet preparation

1. In a deep bowl we spread 400 grams of fresh minced chicken. You can take any other meat. Add to it spices to taste (allspice, herbs), salt. Knead the meat with spices directly with your hands.
   
2. We begin to form small balls, rolling them in the palms. So that the meat does not stick to your hands, you need to moisten them with water. We heat the pan, pour a spoonful of vegetable oil on it. Formed cutlets roll in a small amount of flour and send to a preheated pan.
   
3. Lightly fry on both sides. We cut one large onion into cubes, add it to the patties in the pan.
   
4. We make tomato juice from three fresh tomatoes. They can be grated or chopped in a blender without skin. You can also use natural canned tomato juice, but fresh will give a more piquant taste. Pour the resulting tomato (200 ml) into the pan, mix.
   
5. Using garlic presses, grind four cloves of garlic and pour them to the patties. Cut fresh basil leaves and parsley (to taste) and add to the pan.
   
6. Separately, boil pasta of any shape in salted water (300 g). For such a paste, you should choose pasta from durum wheat (durum), as they do not fall apart and do not stick together. Traditional Italian dishes use only such pasta.
   

Dish assembly

Put pasta cooked and freed from excess fluid onto a dish. Pour it over with tomato sauce and lay out the patties that were stewed in it. Decorate the finished pasta with fresh herbs.

Video recipe

This video presents an easy way to cook Italian-style pasta with meatballs, and describes all the steps involved in preparing a meal.

Options for complementing dishes

Such a simple, at first glance, recipe can be prepared in different ways and each time you get different flavor combinations. The advantage of Italian pasta, above all, in the speed of cooking. But also in the ability to change and complement it. There are tons of different ways to make Italian-style pasta with meatballs. Let's consider some of them.

• When preparing this dish every time, you can choose different minced meat - pork, beef or mixed. Such a simple maneuver will provide a variety of flavors on your table.
• An unusual version of Italian pasta can be obtained if you cook cutlets from mushrooms. This option is perfect for fasting people or vegetarians. It is better to take ordinary porcini mushrooms (champignons) for this. Chop finely and fry so that they lose excess moisture. Then stir them with a chicken egg and form balls. The sauce for such a mushroom paste is better to take creamy rather than tomato.
• A simple way that will help to breathe new taste into this dish is to replace the sauce. Instead of classic tomato, choose soft creamy. To do this, the fried cutlets should be poured with low-fat cream (50 ml), add a little water and simmer until tender. Before serving, add 50 g of grated hard cheese to the sauce with cutlets.

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