Mike's 5 Minute Meatballs & Marinara Sauce. You'll want the outside of your bread crispy and the inside, fluffy and absorbent to soak up your delicious Marinara Sauce. Don't want to spend all day prepping game day snacks? In just five minutes, you'll be ready to serve up perfectly seasoned meatballs.

A great hack for baking meatballs with minimal oil. Makes a great lunch or dinner. In a heavy cast iron pan place meatballs on the bottom. You can have Mike's 5 Minute Meatballs & Marinara Sauce using 25 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Mike's 5 Minute Meatballs & Marinara Sauce

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

Cover them with grape jelly sauce. Move the pan to the indirect-heat side of the grill and cover the grill. Spray a baking sheet with olive oil cooking spray. Mix all ingredients thoroughly in large bowl.

Mike's 5 Minute Meatballs & Marinara Sauce instructions

Heat oven to 350°..
Here's all you'll need. Sugar, Burgundy and Mozzarella not pictured since they're all optional..
Uncooked Marinara Sauce..
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..
Uncooked Italian meatballs - hand rolled on tinfoil..
Fully baked meatballs at 350° for 30 minutes..
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..
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!.
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..
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!].
These really do make great next day work or school lunches!.
Serve with thick slices of garlic french bread. Enjoy!.

If mixture seems a little loose add more bread crumbs. CJ's Italian Meatballs Haiku: "I can't believe it. These beat 'Meatball Nirvana' And they held up too!" So my biggest praise for these meatballs is that after I made a double-batch, w/o changing the recipe, I froze them into weekly portions, but after thawing a handful of them in sauce last night, I couldn't have been more delighted that they held their meatball shape and didn't fall apart! Everyday Meatballs Generously adapted over the years from Ina Garten with some helpful tips from Luisa Weiss. Heat the oil in a large sauté pan over medium heat.