These Tiny Meatballs and Spaghetti are a delightful family dinner featuring bite-sized meatballs served over tender pasta in a rich tomato and mushroom sauce.
This is a great recipe to make for a warm, flavorful dinner that the whole family can enjoy. This Spaghetti and Meatballs without onion and garlic is made from scratch, so no store-bought sauce is needed, and the meatballs are baked in the oven, so it is a healthier version.
You can make this dish ahead of time and enjoy the leftovers for a few days, or freeze them for later.
Why You Will Love This Recipe
- Special Diets: allium free, no onion no garlic
- Flavorful Sauce: Features a savory sauce for meatballs that is made with mushrooms and tomatoes.
- Serving Suggestions: Serve with spaghetti, and sprinkle the Parmesan cheese on top for more flavor.
Developed & Checked by GI Nurse Dora S. Zachmann
Table of contents
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Ingredients
Meatballs
- Ground meat: choose your favorite ground meat. Ground beef, ground pork, ground chicken, or ground turkey. They all work perfectly in this meal
- Ground rosemary
- Dry thyme
- Dry marjoram
- Seltz water – for giving the airiness and softness to the meatballs (you can use any non flavored carbonated water)
- Plain breadcrumbs
- Salt: for enriching the flavor
Sauce
- Button mushrooms: for giving flavor, texture, and nutrition to the meal
- Canned diced tomato: for flavor and texture
- Tomato puree: for flavor and making of the sauce creamy
- Water
- Sugar: for removing acid flavor from tomato if necessary
- Dry oregano
- Dry basil
- All-purpose flour
- Salt: for enriching the flavor
- Pepper: if you can’t eat pepper, you can omit it, it won’t affect the recipe.
- Cooking oil
Spaghetti: or any other dry pasta according to your taste
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Equipment
- Chef’s knife
- Cutting board
- Baking tray
- Parchment pepper
- Piping bag
- Big bowl
- Spoon
- Saute pan
- Wooden spoon
- Pot
- Colander
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How to store Tiny Meatballs and Spaghetti without onion without garlic?
Refrigerator
- Meatballs and sauce: you can store them for up to 3 days in an air-tight container.
- Pasta: without sauce, and you can store it in an air-tight container for up to 3 days.
Freezer
Store everything separately!
- Meatballs and sauce: without pasta, you can store them for up to 2 months in an air-tight container.
- Pasta: without sauce and meatballs, you can store it in an air-tight container for up to 2 months.
Garnish for no onion no garlic mini meatball pasta recipe
Garnish can elevate how the food looks, and it can make it look more appetizing. However, garnish can be a spot where alliums are hiding. In this recipe, I garnished my plate with freshly chopped parsley.
Tiny Meatballs and Spaghetti
Ingredients
Meatballs:
- 1 lb. ground meat 450g
- ½ teaspoon ground rosemary
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon dry thyme
- 1 teaspoon dry marjoram
- 3 tablespoons seltzer water
- 1 tablespoon breadcrumbs
Sauce:
- 11 oz button mushrooms 310g
- 14 oz canned diced tomato 400g
- 1½ cup tomato puree 300ml
- 1 cup water 250ml
- ½ teaspoon sugar optional
- 1 teaspoon dry oregano
- 1 teaspoon dry basil
- 1 teaspoon flour
- Salt & pepper to taste
- cooking oil - enough to cover the bottom of your skillet
Pasta:
- 11 oz dry spaghetti or any other pasta according to your taste 310g
Instructions
Meatballs:
- Preheat the oven to 355°F/180℃. On the baking tray place parchment paper.
- In a bowl mix ground meat with ground rosemary, dry thyme, dry marjoram, salt, breadcrumbs, and seltzer water. Mix it well.
- Put the ground meat mixture in the piping bag. Squeeze out a small meatball (the size of a coin) on the baking tray.
- Bake it for about 15 minutes. They have to be nice and golden.
Pasta:
- Cook spaghetti in boiling water with salt according to the package.
Sauce:
- Cut mushrooms into small sticks.
- Add the oil to a pan and heat over medium-low heat.
- When the oil gets hot (in a few moments), add mushrooms and a pinch of salt.
- Saute the mushrooms with occasional stirring for a few minutes, and when they let their juice out, add flour, and continue sauteing with constant stirring until the flour gets a pale golden color.
- Add canned diced tomato, tomato puree, and water. Bring it to a boil with occasional stiring.
- Add sugar, salt, dry oregano, and basil. Cook it for 10 minutes with occasional stirring.
- Add baked meatballs, and stir the sauce. Simmer the sauce for a few minutes to combine the flavors.
- Add cooked pasta to the sauce and toss gently to combine it with the sauce.
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