Meatballs For Sandwiches

Total Time: 4 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 4 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 25
• 1 (28 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 1 (28 ounce) can tomato puree
• 1 (14 ounce) can chopped tomatoes
• 1 (8 ounce) can tomato paste
• 2 teaspoons olive oil
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• 1/2 sweet onion, chopped
• 1 teaspoon salt
• italian seasoning
• 4 -5 lbs meatloaf mixture (ground beef and lamb)
• 1 cup breadcrumbs
• 2 slices bread, cubed and soaked in milk
• 3 eggs
• 1/2 cup parmesan cheese
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon pepper
• italian seasoning

Recipe

• 1 preheat the oven to 350°f.
• 2 mix bread cubes soaked in milk, breadcrumbs, parmesan cheese, eggs, salt, garlic, pepper, and seasoning in the bottom of a large bowl.
• 3 add meatloaf mix and combine with other ingredients using your hands. don’t mix too much, just make sure all ingredients are well blended.
• 4 roll mixture into balls using your hands and arrange meatballs on a cookie pan (with sides, not the flat kind).
• 5 bake meatballs for 30 minutes. you can brown them under the broiler for a few minutes if you like a crunchier meatball.
• 6 in the meantime, sauté onion and garlic in olive oil on low heat until translucent, do not burn.
• 7 combine the sautéed onion and garlic to the rest of the sauce ingredients in a large crock pot or stock pot. turn crock pot on high (if using a stock pot, bring contents to a boil).
• 8 when meatballs are done in the oven, mix into the sauce mixture. cook in crock pot for 4-6 hours on high heat. if using a stock pot, reduce heat and simmer meatballs for 4 hours or until ready to serve.