Recipe- Homemade pasta and meatballs

 

Everything is home made... Well not the cheese but that was grated by us as well!

Ingredients for Dough:

• 1 cup of Flour
• 1 egg
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• 2 tablespoons of water

Ingredients for Meatballs:

• one pound of ground beef
• one egg
• Italian seasoning
• salt
• bread crumbs
• one garlic clove

Ingredients for Pasta Sauce:

• One green Pepper chopped
• One red Pepper chopped
• One yellow onion chopped
• two garlic cloves
• two cans of tomato paste
• one can of diced tomatoes
• salt to taste

Directions for dough:

• In a bowl combine flour and salt
• make a "well" or hole in the dough and add a beaten egg
• mix together with your hands
• Add water as needed
• On a floured surface knead the dough for about 4 minutes
• Wrap dough in saran wrap for about an hour to bring the dough to room temp.
• Put a pot of water on to boil
• we have a machine to flatten and cut the dough:

• if you don’t you would use a rolling pinned (floured) to roll the dough into the desired thickness
• then cut into strips
• Add the striped dough to the boiling water
• remove dough when its floating (About 5 minutes sometimes less)
• When all dough has been cooked add back to water to heat up and strain

Directions for meatballs

• In a bowl mix meat, egg, salt, garlic, and seasoning
• mix in bread crumbs
• preheat oven to 350 degrees
• roll meat into one inch balls and place on a cookie sheet
• cook until the meat balls are brown on the outside
• add meatballs to pasta sauce

Directions for pasta sauce

• in a pan add all ingredients
• keep stiring until desired temperature
• add in meatballs

 

Serve in a bowl grate fresh parmesan cheese and enjoy!