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GUILT-FREE Pasta and Meatballs with Rocco DiSpirito | The Best Thing I Ever Made | Food Network
All of the comfort of spaghetti and meatballs, but much lighter and healthier!
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Spaghetti with My Mamas Meatballs
RECIPE COURTESY OF ROCCO DISPIRITO
Level: Easy
Total: 2 hr 30 min
Prep: 30 min
Cook: 2 hr
Yield: 4 adult lunch/dinner entrees (16 meatballs)
Ingredients
Olive oil cooking spray
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1/2 cup chopped onion
Dried red chili flakes
1 cup fat-free reduced sodium chicken stock, such as College Inn Fat-Free Light Sodium
1 1/2 cups red pack tomato puree
1 1/2 cups red pack diced tomatoes
1/2 medium eggplant, halved lengthwise
Salt
6 ounces lean ground turkey breast, such as Jennie-O
4 ounces 94-percent fat-free ground beef sirloin, such as Laura’s Lean 94-percent
2 ounces extra-lean ground pork, such as Farmer John’s
1 egg white
1/4 cup fresh parsley leaves, chopped
1/2 ounce Parmigiano-Reggiano
2 cups puffed kamut
6 ounces 100-percent kamut spaghetti
Directions
Spray a large saucepan with 4 sprays of olive oil spray. Add half the garlic and half the onion and a pinch of red chili flakes and cook over medium heat until tender, about 2 minutes. Add half the chicken stock, tomato puree and diced tomatoes and simmer over low heat for an hour.
Preheat the broiler. Meanwhile, using the tip of a knife, score the eggplant deeply and sprinkle with salt. Place the eggplant cut-side up and cook under the broiler until lightly browned, about 4 minutes. Remove the eggplant from the broiler and place on a plate and microwave on high until tender, about 2 minutes. Let cool.
In a large bowl, add the meats and mix gently to incorporate. Place the egg white, remaining chicken stock, onion, garlic and parsley in the beaker of a blender and blend until smooth, about 30 seconds. Add the mixture to the bowl with the meats, add the cheese and crumble the kamut in with your fingers. Sprinkle with salt and chili flakes.
Scoop the eggplant pulp out of its skin and let any excess water drip off. Measure out 1/2 cup of the pulp, and then lightly chop and add to the meat mixture, folding in to incorporate. With the use of a tablespoon, measure out 16 even heaping mounds on to a clean work surface and then form into balls with your hands.
Spray a large nonstick saute pan with 4 sprays of olive oil spray and heat over medium-high heat. Once the pan is hot, add half of the meatballs and cook until lightly browned on one side, about 1 minute. Roll the meatballs on the other side and brown evenly, about 2 minutes. Remove the browned meatballs from the pan and then spray the pan with 4 more sprays and repeat the browning with the rest of the meatballs. Add the meatballs to the sauce and simmer very slowly for an hour.
Meanwhile, bring 4 quarts of water to a simmer and then add 1 tablespoon of salt. Drop the pasta in the water and cook per manufacturer’s instructions. Place 4 meatballs each on 4 plates, and then add the spaghetti to the remaining sauce in the pan with 1/2 cup of the pasta water and cook until the sauce holds well on the pasta. Evenly distribute the pasta to each of the 4 plates.
Cook’s Note
Wet your hands with clean cold water while shaping the meatballs, it helps tremendously.
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@chriswright6403
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
Where's the beef?
@dianegerlach2454
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
Wow! Unexpected ingredients. I'm adding this to my personal menu
@alainabilow
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
Absolutely fabulous concept overall and very intriguing use of eggplant and wheat. Truly inspired.
@luzelenagomezsantos1179
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
Hablas el idioma Español yo no entiendo pero voy al investigar que me quieres decir .
@luzelenagomezsantos1179
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
Feliz año me gusta tus recetas .Eres Italiano si .Abrazos desde la distancia .
@nonenoneonenonenone
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
No way this is better. Just eat a smaller portion of the original.
@luzelenagomezsantos4047
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
Este video me gusto te ves guapo .
@luzelenagomezsantos4047
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
Deliciosos espaguetis yo los hago con albondigas .Besos desde la distancia.
@savoirfaire212
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
yum!
@tigercrane64
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
Some have a food allergy to pork and fish.
@miaskaka157
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
so bad 🙁
@nihatmirzoyev7162
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
👍👍
@habbogigi
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
ain't nothing Italian about spaghetti with meatballs, you'll literally never find it here, its 100% Italian american
@mrbear1302
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
He is so snide and self absorbed.
@rosastratton6503
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
Sorry That looks like too many steps with the egg plant and the slurry. I like to dump my ingredients all together and be done with it. I’ll pass
@SoTypicallyMeh
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
Wow. He seems arrogant as hell.
@ICONICMUSIC
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
He loves his Mom, obviously a good guy.
@Nenn-qs2yw
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
“Greatest Italian dish ever made…… “. It’s American food not Italian. Lol
@lc11214
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
I met Rocco at the NYC food and wine festival; he's so nice and down to earth.
@user-vl1nz5gn3f
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
Can you kindly tell us your mom's recipe? Coz we are craving for more calories. Thanks…
@fabifar8834
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
La Mama ❤️
@MackerelCat
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
Puffed kamut = sugar puffs without the coating, for us normies.
@tigercrane64
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
I have a food allergy to pork. I wouldn't replace the veal with Turkey.
@suzita4019
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
Fabulous. My Mum makes the best meatballs too. She makes tasty Spanish meatballs. Delicious
@thewhitematstudio
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
Jesus this upload is really bad. What’s it up with the dimensions
@pennymartin3821
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
More Rocco please!
@MikeyDGoumbaGourmet
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
You must try my meatball recipe. You will love them!! Just click here. https://youtu.be/CqEJ18InbIY
@marthamika7372
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
👍🏻👍🏻yummy
@pulseweld
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
the grandmother died in 2013 which shows just how old this clip is
@wa2k99
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
Kamut?
@RonPaulOrElse
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
That is seriously unhealthy. He removed all of the healthy fat and kept the deadly carbs. Keto is obviously beyond his understanding. What is this video 20 years old?
@Passionforfoodrecipes
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
I once thought I saw a meatball in space, turns out it was just a little meat-eor!
@NuraNURA
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
Amazing recipe 💛👌 Yummy 💛👍👍👍 Thanks for sharing 👌
@QueanaIvory
December 23, 2023 at 10:31 pm
Are there any subs for the eggplant unfortunately I’m extremely allergic 😔