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

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, mike's 5 minute meatballs & marinara sauce. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. 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 is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Mike's 5 Minute Meatballs & Marinara Sauce is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Mike's 5 Minute Meatballs & Marinara Sauce:
  1. Get 2 (16 oz) Jars Of Your Favorite Marinara Sauce [my student used wolfgang pucks]
  2. Make ready 16 oz Italian Sausage Pre-fabed Meatballs
  3. Get 1 (14 Can) Diced Tomatoes
  4. Take 14 ozs Artichoke Hearts [rough chopped]
  5. Take 1 LG Fresh Beefeater Tomato [chopped]
  6. Take 2 tbsp Fresh Basil [chopped]
  7. Take 1 Medium Viadailla Onion [chopped]
  8. Prepare 1/2 Cup Green Bell Pepper [chopped]
  9. Prepare 1/2 Cup Red Onions [chopped]
  10. Take 6 Cloves Fresh Garlic [left whole]
  11. Get 1/2 Cup Fresh Celery [chopped]
  12. Get 1/4 Cup Shreaded Parmasean Cheese [+ reserves for garnish]
  13. Take as needed Mozzarella Cheese [for garnish]
  14. Prepare to taste Salt And Fresh Ground Black Pepper
  15. Prepare 1/2 Cup Water Or Beef Stock
  16. Prepare 1/2 tsp Oregeno [crushed]
  17. Get 1/2 tsp Fennel Seeds
  18. Prepare 1 tsp Red Pepper Flakes
  19. Make ready 2 tbsp Granulated Sugar [optional - depending upon your marinara sauce choice]
  20. Make ready 1/3 Cup Quality Burgundy [optional]
  21. Prepare Tabasco Sauce [garnish]
  22. Take as needed Pre-fabed Garlic Butter [for bread & noodles]
  23. Take as needed Fresh French Bread 2" Slices
  24. Prepare as needed Thin Spaghetti Noodles
  25. Make ready 1/4 tsp Baking Soda [added to simmering sauce to reduce any acidity from tomatoes]
Steps 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!

So that is going to wrap this up with this special food mike's 5 minute meatballs & marinara sauce recipe. Thank you very much for your time. I am sure that you will make this at home. There is gonna be more interesting food at home recipes coming up. Remember to bookmark this page in your browser, and share it to your family, colleague and friends. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!