Meatballs That Make Their Own Sauce

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 slice whole wheat bread, broken up
• 1 tablespoon water
• 1 lb lean ground beef, preferably round
• 1/4 parsley
• 1 small onions, minced or 3 tablespoons onion flakes
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 2 teaspoons dried oregano
• 1 clove garlic, minced or 1 pinch garlic powder
• salt and pepper
• 3 cups tomato juice
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1 clove garlic, minced or 1 pinch garlic powder

Recipe

• 1 moisten bread with water.
• 2 mix throughly with remaining meatball ingredients.
• 3 shape into 8 medium or 16 small meatballs.
• 4 brown meatballs on all sides.
• 5 combine sauce ingredients in large saucepan.
• 6 heat to boiling.
• 7 add meatballs.
• 8 simmer uncovered until tomato juice has reduced to a fairly-thick sauce-about one hour.
• 9 skim any fat (or refrigerate overnight and skim congealed fat).
• 10 serve with crusty italian bread, or with pasta (when i am doing it with pasta. i use twice the amount of tomato juice so as to get lots of sauce.).