Why You’ll Love This Easy Spaghetti and Meatballs Recipe
Easy to prep and make! The steps to make this are super easy and straight forward. And I will show you throughout the post how to prep steps ahead to cut the total time even further at dinnertime! A Classic! This is a guaranteed family favorite, easy dinner recipe. Who doesn’t love spaghetti and meatballs? Make It Ahead Or Use Shortcuts! The great thing about this recipe is it can be prepped in advance. You can make it a day ahead or even weeks in advance and freeze it! I offer up some shortcut ideas for you as well to make prep time easy on busy weeknights!
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Spaghetti and Meatballs Recipe Shortcuts
Make your meatballs a day in advance! The meatballs for this recipe is a version of my perfect Baked Meatballs Recipe with a few tweaks! Premade meatballs. If you don’t want to make your own meatballs, use premade meatballs! You can use frozen meatballs, but I would thaw them out to use in this recipe. This is a time saver if you’re in a time crunch! Prep your pasta and coat it in the sauce ahead of time. You can do this a few hours ahead or even a day in advance. If you choose to do this a day in advance use an extra cup of sauce, as the noodles will absorb the pasta as it sits in the refrigerator.
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Simple combine the meatball ingredients in a large bowl and form them into evenly sized meatballs. Bake the meatballs at 350°F for about 25 minutes until they are 160°-165°F.
Assemble
Add the coated pasta into a deep skillet or casserole dish and sprinkle with grated mozzarella. Nestle the meatballs into the noodles evenly throughout and bake!
Spices. The sky is the limit here with what you can add! Fresh basil, crushed red pepper flakes, oregano, and garlic powder are an easy kick start to amping up the flavor of the sauce! Caramelized Onions. This is a trick I use a lot with sauce. Dice up a yellow onion and cook the onions with a bit of olive oil until they are golden. Add the sauce right into the pan and cook them together for about 10 minutes to infuse the flavor! Garlic. I mean this goes without saying, right? You can mince up fresh cloves of garlic and stir that right into the sauce for a big pop of garlic. Or just add garlic powder with the other spices like I mentioned above! Heavy cream. What’s better than a creamy tomato sauce? An easy way to do this is heat your sauce on the stove top and add in a few tablespoons or up to 1/2 cup of heavy cream depending on how creamy you like it! You can also add in 4- ounces of cream cheese right into the sauce and cook it until it’s melted and smooth. Cream cheese adds a silky richness that is delicious!
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