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Frances Rivetti

12/05/22

Adamaria’s Sunday Sauce

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Adamaria’s Sunday Sauce with Braciole & Polpette Meatballs

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  • Author: Frances Rivetti

Ingredients

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Mariana Sauce 

¼ cup olive oil

1 small onion, finely chopped

4 cloves of garlic, sliced thinly

2 sprigs of freshly chopped basil

2 28-ounce cans of whole peeled tomatoes

Kosher salt

Freshly ground pepper

Braciole

 

3 pounds of flank steak

2 tsp minced garlic

½ cup of chopped basil

Salt and pepper

Parmesan cheese

Splash of Vermouth

Twine or string for tying up the braciole

Polpette Meatballs

 

2 pounds ground sirloin

1 cup grated Parmesan cheese

½ cup chopped parsley

1 tsp minced garlic

2 cups fine Italian breadcrumbs

2 large eggs

1 tsp salt

½ tsp pepper

Olive oil

Instructions

Heat oil in a mid-size heavy pot over medium heat. Sauté onion, stirring frequently, until soft, 8–10 minutes. Add garlic and continue, stirring occasionally for another 5 minutes; stir in chopped basil. Add tomatoes, crushing with your hands as you go; season with salt and pepper and simmer. Reduce heat; simmer gently, stirring occasionally, until sauce is thick, at least an hour. Sauce can be made a few days ahead if kept in the refrigerator.

Tenderize flank steak evenly. Add garlic, basil and season to taste. Sprinkle small handful of parmesan cheese. Roll up flank steak tightly and secure with string. Brown flank steak in pot with olive oil and a dash of vermouth, rotating until all brown. Take out. Make sauce and then add meatballs and add flank steak and meatballs into sauce and simmer on low for two to three hours.  

 

For the polpette meatballs, combine ingredients into a large bowl, saving a little bit of the breadcrumbs to roll the meatballs in before frying. Shape into balls and bake or fry. Add to sauce.

 

 

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