Mike's 5 Minute Meatballs & Marinara Sauce
Mike's 5 Minute Meatballs & Marinara Sauce

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, mike's 5 minute meatballs & marinara sauce. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Mike's 5 Minute Meatballs & Marinara Sauce is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Mike's 5 Minute Meatballs & Marinara Sauce is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mike's 5 minute meatballs & marinara sauce using 25 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Mike's 5 Minute Meatballs & Marinara Sauce:
  1. Take 2 (16 oz) Jars Of Your Favorite Marinara Sauce [my student used wolfgang pucks]
  2. Get 16 oz Italian Sausage Pre-fabed Meatballs
  3. Get 1 (14 Can) Diced Tomatoes
  4. Make ready 14 ozs Artichoke Hearts [rough chopped]
  5. Get 1 LG Fresh Beefeater Tomato [chopped]
  6. Prepare 2 tbsp Fresh Basil [chopped]
  7. Make ready 1 Medium Viadailla Onion [chopped]
  8. Make ready 1/2 Cup Green Bell Pepper [chopped]
  9. Take 1/2 Cup Red Onions [chopped]
  10. Prepare 6 Cloves Fresh Garlic [left whole]
  11. Take 1/2 Cup Fresh Celery [chopped]
  12. Prepare 1/4 Cup Shreaded Parmasean Cheese [+ reserves for garnish]
  13. Get as needed Mozzarella Cheese [for garnish]
  14. Prepare to taste Salt And Fresh Ground Black Pepper
  15. Get 1/2 Cup Water Or Beef Stock
  16. Make ready 1/2 tsp Oregeno [crushed]
  17. Get 1/2 tsp Fennel Seeds
  18. Take 1 tsp Red Pepper Flakes
  19. Get 2 tbsp Granulated Sugar [optional - depending upon your marinara sauce choice]
  20. Make ready 1/3 Cup Quality Burgundy [optional]
  21. Make ready Tabasco Sauce [garnish]
  22. Prepare as needed Pre-fabed Garlic Butter [for bread & noodles]
  23. Get as needed Fresh French Bread 2" Slices
  24. Make ready as needed Thin Spaghetti Noodles
  25. Get 1/4 tsp Baking Soda [added to simmering sauce to reduce any acidity from tomatoes]
Instructions to make Mike's 5 Minute Meatballs & Marinara Sauce:
  1. Heat oven to 350°.
  2. Here's all you'll need. Sugar, Burgundy and Mozzarella not pictured since they're all optional.
  3. Uncooked Marinara Sauce.
  4. Add beef broth and quality Burgundy to your Marinara to thin it a bit. While baking meatballs, simmer your sauce. They should take the same amount of time to cook.
  5. Uncooked Italian meatballs - hand rolled on tinfoil.
  6. Fully baked meatballs at 350° for 30 minutes.
  7. Start your noodle boil 15 minutes into your marinara simmer. Boil your noodles with a dash of salt and a dash olive oil and boil as per manufactures directions. Usually only 9 minutes.
  8. Drained noodles with garlic butter [or olive oil] mixed in. Tonight was garlic butter. It's a great way to keep them fresh and toothy!
  9. Toast your 2" thick sliced French bread at 350° [butter side down] in the last 5 minutes of your meatball bake. You'll want the outside of your bread crispy and the inside, fluffy and absorbent to soak up your delicious Marinara Sauce.
  10. Place garlic butter coated noodles in bowl. Add sauce and meatballs and garnish with Parmasean Cheese, Mozzarella Cheese and Tabasco Sauce. [here in new mexico we tend to put tabasco on everything!]
  11. These really do make great next day work or school lunches!
  12. Serve with thick slices of garlic french bread. Enjoy!

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