cheesy penne with mozzarella meatballs.
You can have cheesy penne with mozzarella meatballs using 24 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of cheesy penne with mozzarella meatballs
- Prepare of meatballs.
- You need 4 lb of ground beef.
- You need 3 oz of mozzarella cheese stick 4 sticks.
- It's 2 tbsp of granulated garlic powder.
- You need 2 tsp of salt.
- You need 2 tsp of onion powder.
- Prepare 1 tsp of ground black pepper.
- You need of sauce.
- You need 1 cup of shredded extra sharp cheddar cheese.
- You need 3 can of tomato sauce** 15 ounce cans each.
- It's 1 can of tomato paste 8 ounce.
- You need 1 1/2 tsp of salt.
- You need 1/4 cup of sugar.
- Prepare 2 tbsp of granulated garlic powder.
- It's 1 tsp of ground black pepper.
- It's 2 tbsp of balsamic vinegar.
- Prepare 2 tsp of onion powder.
- It's 8 oz of water.
- You need 1 small of onion sliced thinly.
- Prepare of pasta.
- You need 1 box of penne pasta 16 ounces.
- It's 2 tsp of salt.
- It's 2 tbsp of olive oil.
- Prepare 6 cup of water.
cheesy penne with mozzarella meatballs step by step
- take the meatball ingredients except the cheese, mix well cut the cheese into medallions. You will use a little over half the 4 pounds here..
- form beef into little balls, add cheese to the center of balls, cover over the cheese with beef. repeat, pan fry rotating often..
- you will have approximately a little under half the beef left over. where you have the juices and oils from meat balls fry onions in it..
- with the left over beef brown it. add onions drain meat, add tomato sauce. mix water and paste together. add water and paste mixture to sauce. Then add the rest of sauce ingredients except cheese.
- add cooked pasta (which you bring salt ,oil, water to boil. Then add pasta cook 12 minutes and drain. Then add to sauce) and cheese. add to pasta and sauce..
- simmer 7 minutes stirring often.
- ** if you use hunts brand tomato sauce adjust the amount of salt to the sauce hunts has a lot of salt in their canned tomato sauce.