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Italian Ragu with Meatballs and Sausage Recipe

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Italian Ragu with Meatballs and Sausage
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Ingredients
18
Count
Nutrition
1045
Calories
Total time
300
Minutes
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Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. In a large sauce pot (8-quart size minimum), heat 1/4 cup of the olive oil on a very low flame. Add the diced onion and cook slowly until it has turned translucent. Do not brown the onion, but allow it to almost melt away. Add the garlic cloves and very lightly cook them in the oil until golden before adding the tomatoes and all their juices. Add salt and pepper to taste, and the basil leaves and set the heat on low. Allow the tomatoes to cook at very low heat for at least 2 hours before adding the meat.
  2. Make the meatballs: mix the ground beef and veal together in a large bowl. Combine the bread and milk and mash together to form a paste; add the bread to the ground meat. Add the eggs, garlic, parsley, cheese, salt, and pepper to the meat mixture and combine all the ingredients using your fingers to mix uniformly, but do not over mix or the meat will dry out when cooked. Pick up 2 tablespoons of the mixture and roll it into a ball shape, between the palms of your hands. Do this until you have used all the meat. This should yield approximately 24 meatballs.
  3. Place the remaining olive oil in a heavy skillet and heat over medium flame. Add the meatballs in 1 layer and brown on all sides before removing. Do this to the remaining meatballs until all are browned to a caramelized color. After all the meatballs have been browned and removed from the skillet, add the sausage links and brown well, following the same method as the meatballs. When all the meat has cooked, add to the tomato ragu, which has been cooking for 2 hours and cook an additional hour. Serve the tomato ragu over rigatoni pasta cooked to manufacturer's directions. Serve the meats on another plate as a second course.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 1044.81 Kcal (4374 kJ)
Calories from fat 763.34 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 84.82g 130%
Cholesterol 283.33mg 94%
Sodium 1357.25mg 57%
Potassium 935.41mg 20%
Total Carbs 11.68g 4%
Sugars 6.68g 27%
Dietary Fiber 0.51g 2%
Protein 55.95g 112%
Vitamin C 8.6mg 14%
Iron 4.4mg 24%
Calcium 143.1mg 14%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 194.69 Kcal (815 kJ)
Calories from fat 142.24 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 15.8g 130%
Cholesterol 52.8mg 94%
Sodium 252.91mg 57%
Potassium 174.3mg 20%
Total Carbs 2.18g 4%
Sugars 1.24g 27%
Dietary Fiber 0.09g 2%
Protein 10.43g 112%
Vitamin C 1.6mg 14%
Iron 0.8mg 24%
Calcium 26.7mg 14%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 27.9
    Points
  • 28
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium,
  • High in Total Fat

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