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Spaghetti and Drop Meatballs with Tomato Sauce

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Spaghetti and Drop Meatballs with Tomato Sauce

Mark Bittman
Jan 8, 2019
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Spaghetti and Drop Meatballs with Tomato Sauce

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Melina Hammer for the New York Times

The most time-consuming part of making meatballs is rolling them. The solution? Don’t. Just use two spoons to drop little mounds of the mixture into the hot skillet. (Skipping the rolling also prevents you from overworking the meatballs until they get tough.) Leave them alone to brown beautifully on the bottom while you start building the tomato sauce a…

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