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- From: dmferrell@happy.uccs.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- Subject: Italian Meatball Sandwich
- Date: 21 May 1994 06:18:09 -0400
- Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
- Message-ID: <2rkn51$eld@s.ms.uky.edu>
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- Meatball sandwiches
-
- Meatballs
- 1 lb ground round or ground chuck - do not use regular hamburger, much too
- greasy
- 1/2 lb ground pork
- 1 1/2 cups grated cheese - parmesan or Romano or a hard, well aged goat cheese
- 2 cups fine dry bread crumbs
- one good handful dried crushed parsley
- 2 eggs
- milk - about 1/2 to 1 cup
- salt
- pepper
- garlic salt if you want
-
- Sauce
- 1 qt tomato sauce
- 1 small can tomato paste
- 1 pt whole tomatoes, crushed
- red wine
- olive oil
- salt pork
- salt, pepper, garlic salt to taste
- dry sweet basil
- dry marjoram
- 1 small onion - optional
- 4-5 cloves garlic, minced
-
- (optional ingredients: cubed eggplant, mushrooms, fresh sweet red
- pepper pieces, dried crushed hot red chili, black Italian
- olives-chopped, green Greek olives-chopped---and anything else you can
- think of or want)
-
- Prepare the sauce: Put 2 tbsp of olive oil in a heavy large pot. Cut
- two slices from the salt pork about 1/4" thick each and trim off the
- rind (skin). Cut up the salt pork into small pieces. Heat up the
- olive oil to medium-high and add the salt pork. It should just barely
- sizzle. Finely chop up the onion and add it to the pot. Saute until
- the onion becomes translucent. Add the minced garlic and saute just
- until the garlic begins to turn golden. At this point you can add any
- of the optional stuff--chop it up to small pieces and stir the mixture
- in the pot well. Add one good handful of crushed dried basil, 1 medium
- handful of crushed dried marjoram and stir everything well. Saute all
- for about 3-4 minutes. Add the can of tomato paste. Clean the can out
- with the wine and add two cans of the wine. Stir well and add the
- whole tomatoes. Salt, pepper, and garlic salt to taste and let this
- cook for about 10 minutes until everything is mixed well and bubbly.
- Add the sauce--adjust the seasonings if you like. Reduce the heat to
- simmer and let cook for about 1 hour.
-
- Prepare the meatballs: Place all ingredients, except the milk, in a
- large bowl and mix well. If the mixture seems to be very sticky add
- 1/2 cup milk and mix well again. We like very soft meatballs and the
- more milk you add the softer the final product will be, so you will
- have to decide how soft you want the meatball to be and adjust the
- milk. I would add all of it. Mix well. Form a small portion of the
- meat mixture into a ball about 2" in diameter. Form the rest of the
- meatballs in the same manner. An ice cream scoop makes them just about
- the right size.
-
- You can either fry or bake the meatball (add lots of flavor) or you can
- broil it (removes most of grease and fate). Whichever method you use,
- make sure you cook them to a nice crust on the outside. Drop the
- meatballs into the sauce and simmer for one more hour. Add a little
- water to the sauce if it seems to be real thick.
-
- To make the sandwich - use a crusty roll--hard roll (crusty on the
- outside, soft on the inside)--slice in half. Cut one or two meatballs
- in half and put on one slice of the roll. Spoon a little sauce over
- all, sprinkle with some Italian cheese (parmesan or romano) add a hot
- roasted chili pepper or a sweet roasted pimento--put the other half of
- the roll on top. Open mouth very wide and bite into sandwich. Enjoy!
-
- Diane
- dmferrell@happy.uccs.edu
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