I am posting this from my current food coma:
As I have mentioned, I don't eat red meat, pork, seafood, etc. Something I will bend for, however, is chicken. Recently, I tried Trader Joe's chicken meatballs (located in their frozen section). I had NEVER had a meatball of any kind in my life and holy cow. SO GOOD! The first time, I just threw them in spaghetti. I am 25% Italian and never had spaghetti and meatballs. I felt it had to be done. I fell in love and bought them again upon my very next trip to TJ's.
The hub requested meatball sam's so here's what went down...
Ingredients:
2 T butter
2 T EVOO
10 Chicken Meatballs (here I used Trader Joe's brand)
1 clove garlic
1 medium sized yellow onion
5 big button mushrooms
1 cup jarred marinara
1 t red pepper flakes
1 t salt & pepper
For the rest of the sam you'll need
fresh mozzarella
any type of focaccia (I got a mild giardiniera focaccia)
In a medium skillet, melt 2 T of butter with 2 T of EVOO. Add in one thinly sliced (NOT diced or minced!) onion. Let it cook down while you slice up your mushrooms and mince your garlic.
After about 5 minutes of letting the onion cook, add in your mushrooms and garlic. Your kitchen smells amazing by now.
Next, add in your cup of marinara (I used Mushroom by Barilla) and drop in your meatballs. Turn the heat down to medium/low and just let it do it's thing. I let the sauce go for 15-20 minutes until it was really thick and cooked down.
I split open my focaccia and layered the fresh mozz on one side and all the meat balls on the other side. Then, I stuck it under the broiler for a couplea minutes until the cheese was ooey/gooey.
Like I said, come hungry to this one! So good I could almost become a meat-eater....almost. ;-)
