italian cooking recipe: meatballs (polpette di agnello) in tomato sauce Italian traditional recipe. Lamb, sheep or mutton meat.
This is a traditional recipe and is a variant of the recipe of the meatballs fried in olive oil. It is a main course, while the fried meatballs are usually a starter, also served cold.
Notes to the recipe: this recipe is traditional of Abruzzo, but is common with few variants in other southern regions as Apulia, Calabria, Basilicata, Campania. Here we find a typical technique for cooking the sheep meat: at first in the tomato sauce, in this manner it gives all its strong smell to the sauce, which is commonly used for spaghetti alla chitarra. It is useful in the winter period, when the sheep eat almost hay and their meat is stronger. The spaghetti take the taste and the meat for the meatballs becomes more delicate. Easter recipe.From there you can choice either a link to the recipe with pictures for fried meatballs or to tomato meatballs.