COLUMBUS, Ohio — Here's how you can make Dom Tiberi's "world famous" meatball recipe.
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground round
- 1 pound ground pork
- 1 pound ground veal
- 4 eggs
- 1 cup bread crumbs
- Salt to taste
- Pepper taste
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- ¼ cup parsley
- ½ cup parmesan cheese
Cooking Instructions
- Combine all ingredients and mix well.
- Add more bread crumbs if mixture is too wet.
- Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease a cookie sheet with olive oil
- Roll meat to golf ball size balls
- Place on cookie sheet and bake for 15 minutes. Turn them over and bake for about 5 more minutes
- Add them to sauce of choice and let them cook rest of the way
Sauce recipe
- Use a high quality tomato puree and paste of your choice.
- Coat a pan with extra virgin olive oil and add chopped garlic. I like 4 to 5 cloves. You can use more or less.
- I like to add a fatty piece of pork and sear it in the olive oil and garlic. Leave it in the sauce and let it cook the rest of the way – it gives the sauce great flavor.
- Next, add the puree, tomato paste and water; enough water to break it down and make it double in size.
- Next add oregano, parsley, basil, salt and pepper -- use fresh if available. Again add to taste. If you like oregano add more, same with parsley. I also like to add fresh parmigiano cheese.
- When the sausage and meatballs have been seared add them to sauce and then let it simmer. I start mine at night and stir and stir and stir and then before bed, put it in the oven on low and let it cook overnight.
- Don't be afraid to try different things. I do it all to taste.
