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Meatballs Stronconi Recipe

 
  image of meatballs and pasta   This is the best Pasta dish I have ever made. And I have made a lot of pasta dishes. It came about while living in China a decade ago. At that time fresh ingredients were hard to come by so I made do. And now I wouldn't change the recipe even with fresher ingredients available. Don't worry that it uses canned soup and UHT cream. These combine to create a very unique and wonderful flavour that is quite addictive. Big Mac type addictive. I like it, my friends and kids love it.

The extra pork fat with the condensed cream in the meatballs is great. Cooking the meatballs directly from frozen makes the meatball very soft in the middle which explodes with flavour. Do not overcook the meatballs. The soft texture of fresh made spaghetti really suits this dish.
 
  Meatballs Stronconi      
  200g Ground Beef (Rump off cuts freshly minced with fat on is ideal)
200g Pork Chop (Minced fat on, skin off )
4 cloves Garlic finely chopped
1 Egg
1 Tbs Flour
1 Tbs breadcrumbs
15g Parmesan Cheese
1 Tbs Worcestershire sauce
1 Tbs Tomato sauce
1 Tbs Condensed cream
Ground pepper

Sauce:
4 cloves garlic crushed and chopped
30g butter
420g condensed tomato soup (Heinz)
200ml UHT Cream
120g Button mushrooms
120g Cherry tomatoes
Pepper to taste. Do not add salt at all

 

Mix together all the meatball ingredients, squishing aggressively between your fingers and form into small meatballs. (1.5 cm - 2 cm diameter) They will be sloppy, sticky and difficult to work with. Lay rough shapes onto baking paper on a tray and freeze for 30 to 40 minutes. Rework partially frozen balls into more round shapes and freeze completely. At least 4 hours or overnight.

Melt the butter in a deep frypan or large saucepan and remove from the heat. Do not allow to nut or brown. Put the garlic into the just melted butter and let stand 10 minutes. Add Tomato soup and UHT cream. Bring to boil and simmer 10 minutes. Then add the button mushrooms. Simmer 5 minutes and then add the meatballs. Cook a further 4 minutes and then add the cherry tomatoes and stir once carefully. Cook  gently another 4 minutes. Its done when the meatballs are just heated to the centre. You want the meatballs very soft in the middle.

To serve
Fresh made spaghetti
Mozzarella cheese
Parmesan cheese

Serve on a large plate over fresh made spaghetti with mozzarella cheese around the edge and parmesan on top.

Simply superb.