How to Make Flavorful Mike's 5 Minute Meatballs & Marinara Sauce

Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, mike's 5 minute meatballs & marinara sauce. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mike's 5 Minute Meatballs & Marinara Sauce is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Mike's 5 Minute Meatballs & Marinara Sauce is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have mike's 5 minute meatballs & marinara sauce using 25 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Mike's 5 Minute Meatballs & Marinara Sauce:

1. Take 2 (16 oz) Jars Of Your Favorite Marinara Sauce [my student used wolfgang pucks]
2. Prepare 16 oz Italian Sausage Pre-fabed Meatballs
3. Get 1 (14 Can) Diced Tomatoes
4. Take 14 ozs Artichoke Hearts [rough chopped]
5. Make ready 1 LG Fresh Beefeater Tomato [chopped]
6. Prepare 2 tbsp Fresh Basil [chopped]
7. Get 1 Medium Viadailla Onion [chopped]
8. Prepare 1/2 Cup Green Bell Pepper [chopped]
9. Take 1/2 Cup Red Onions [chopped]
10. Get 6 Cloves Fresh Garlic [left whole]
11. Get 1/2 Cup Fresh Celery [chopped]
12. Get 1/4 Cup Shreaded Parmasean Cheese [+ reserves for garnish]
13. Get as needed Mozzarella Cheese [for garnish]
14. Prepare to taste Salt And Fresh Ground Black Pepper
15. Take 1/2 Cup Water Or Beef Stock
16. Take 1/2 tsp Oregeno [crushed]
17. Prepare 1/2 tsp Fennel Seeds
18. Get 1 tsp Red Pepper Flakes
19. Make ready 2 tbsp Granulated Sugar [optional - depending upon your marinara sauce choice]
20. Make ready 1/3 Cup Quality Burgundy [optional]
21. Get Tabasco Sauce [garnish]
22. Get as needed Pre-fabed Garlic Butter [for bread & noodles]
23. Take as needed Fresh French Bread 2" Slices
24. Prepare as needed Thin Spaghetti Noodles
25. Prepare 1/4 tsp Baking Soda [added to simmering sauce to reduce any acidity from tomatoes]

Instructions to make Mike's 5 Minute Meatballs & Marinara Sauce:

1. Heat oven to 350°.
2. Here's all you'll need. Sugar, Burgundy and Mozzarella not pictured since they're all optional.
3. Uncooked Marinara Sauce.
4. Add beef broth and quality Burgundy to your Marinara to thin it a bit. While baking meatballs, simmer your sauce. They should take the same amount of time to cook.
5. Uncooked Italian meatballs - hand rolled on tinfoil.
6. Fully baked meatballs at 350° for 30 minutes.
7. Start your noodle boil 15 minutes into your marinara simmer. Boil your noodles with a dash of salt and a dash olive oil and boil as per manufactures directions. Usually only 9 minutes.
8. Drained noodles with garlic butter [or olive oil] mixed in. Tonight was garlic butter. It's a great way to keep them fresh and toothy!
9. Toast your 2" thick sliced French bread at 350° [butter side down] in the last 5 minutes of your meatball bake. You'll want the outside of your bread crispy and the inside, fluffy and absorbent to soak up your delicious Marinara Sauce.
10. Place garlic butter coated noodles in bowl. Add sauce and meatballs and garnish with Parmasean Cheese, Mozzarella Cheese and Tabasco Sauce. [here in new mexico we tend to put tabasco on everything!]
11. These really do make great next day work or school lunches!
12. Serve with thick slices of garlic french bread. Enjoy!

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