home made spaghetti and meat balls


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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 12
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 324.0
  • Total Fat: 7.5 g
  • Cholesterol: 49.2 mg
  • Sodium: 720.8 mg
  • Total Carbs: 46.8 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 3.6 g
  • Protein: 18.1 g

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Introduction

these meat balls are half beef and half turkey so they are a bit healthier these meat balls are half beef and half turkey so they are a bit healthier
Number of Servings: 12

Ingredients

    1 pound spaghetti noodles
    2 15 oz. cans tomato sauce
    2 15 oz. cans stewed tomatos or crushed tomatos (crush up the stewed tomatos)
    1 small onion, chopped small
    2 teaspoons garlic, minced
    1 tablespoon dried parsley
    1 tablespoon mrs. dash tomato basil and garlic flavor
    8 oz. extra lean ground beef
    12 oz 93% lean ground turkey
    seasoning salt and pepper
    1 cup fine bread crumbs
    2 eggs

Directions

put the tomato sauce, tomatos, onion, garlic, parsley and mrs dash into a large pot over medium heat, when it starts to boil turn it down to low and let it simmer.

Mix the ground meats, seasoning salt, pepper, bread crumbs and eggs and roll into 1 inch meatballs. Put them into a baking dish and bake at 375 for about 30 min. when the meatballs are almost done baking start boiling some water for the noodles. Drain grease from the meatballs and add them to the sauce, keep letting it simmer. Cook the noodles, drain and serve with the sauce and meatballs.

Number of Servings: 12

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user DANDREWS21503.

Member Ratings For This Recipe


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    Very Good
    1 of 1 people found this review helpful
    This was the perfect dish to bring me comfort and still feal like I'm eating nutritious food by using the ground turkey. - 4/23/09


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    Incredible!
    Excellent, we loved thus meal. we will make this again. - 9/11/10