Meatballs And Sausage With Chianti Sauce

Total Time: 2 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 2 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 (28 ounce) cans whole tomatoes
• 1 (15 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/2 medium onion, minced
• 1 tablespoon italian seasoning
• 1 tablespoon oregano
• 1 teaspoon rosemary
• 1 teaspoon thyme
• 1 teaspoon marjoram
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 bay leaf
• pepper
• 2 chicken bouillon cubes
• 1/2-3/4 cup chianti wine
• 1 1/2 lbs ground chuck
• 1/2 lb ground lamb
• 2 eggs
• 3/4 cup italian breadcrumbs
• 1 tablespoon italian seasoning
• 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
• 1/4 teaspoon onion powder
• 1 tablespoon fresh parsley
• 1/4 cup chianti wine
• 2 lbs hot sausage links or 2 lbs mild sausage links
• olive oil (for frying)
• pasta, of your choice

Recipe

• 1 sauce: heat olive oil in dutch oven or lge fry pan with lid; add garlic& onion and saute until transparent; add tomato paste and smoosh it around until it's blended; add tomato sauce.
• 2 before i add the whole tomatoes, i take the hard stem off.
• 3 just grab it and rip it off each tomato, then hand crush each tomato before adding to the sauce mixture.
• 4 add all your spices, bouillon cubes and wine.
• 5 bring to boil, then cover and simmer for 1 1/2 to 2 hrs.
• 6 mama mia!
• 7 now that's my irish way!
• 8 meatballs: in lge bowl mix beef& lamb with all the ingredients.
• 9 it'll be a bit mushy, but keep mixing, if it's still mushy add alittle more breadcrumbs.
• 10 shape into meatballs.
• 11 in lge fry pan, add your sausage links, then to same pan add meatballs.
• 12 flip sausage& meatballs as they brown, don't burn them.
• 13 when they look cooked, drain on paper towel.
• 14 then add to your pot of sauce.
• 15 i hope i covered everything!
• 16 good luck i hope you enjoy.