Meatballs with an Italian Spaghetti Sauce

Whether you’re looking for a spaghetti sauce with meatballs for your next spaghetti night, a meatball sub, or any other Italian recipe, you have just found the best recipe on the internet. This simple recipe shows you how to make homemade meatballs with a delicious and fresh tomato sauce.

We promise you will never go back to store-bought meatballs or spaghetti sauce ever again! We recommend getting a big pot ready because you’ll want to double (or triple) this recipe.

How to Make Spaghetti Sauce With Meatballs

You’ll find the full step-by-step recipe below, but here’s what you can expect from this easy recipe:

Make the Meatballs

Combine ground beef, bread crumbs, parsley, Parmesan, black pepper, garlic powder, and egg in a bowl. Form into meatballs. Store, covered, in the refrigerator until ready to use.

While we love this method, some reviewers like to brown the meatballs before adding them to the sauce to lock in the flavor.

Make the Sauce

In a large saucepan, combine garlic, onion, tomatoes, salt, sugar, and a bay leaf. Simmer those ingredients for 90 minutes.

Add the Meatballs

Add tomato paste, basil, pepper, and the meatballs to the sauce. Simmer for an additional 30 minutes (or until meatballs are cooked).

How to Use Spaghetti Sauce with Meatballs

This recipe makes the perfect, versatile sauce for any Italian-inspired dish. You can serve it over your favorite pasta for an easy dinner. Or you can try one of these mouthwatering recipes.

Meatball Sandwich
Meatball Sub Casserole
Spaghetti Bread

How to Store Spaghetti Sauce with Meatballs

Store this spaghetti sauce with meatballs in an airtight container in the fridge for three to five days.

Can you Freeze Spaghetti Sauce with Meatballs?

Absolutely, and it’s actually a great idea! You’ll want to brown the meatballs first before freezing them, however.

If you make a big batch of sauce, add a few meatballs to zip-top freezer bags and top with sauce. Label the bags and freeze them flat. Sauce will remain fresh for up to three months.

You can also freeze the sauce and meatballs separately. Simply ladle the sauce in zip-top freezer bags and freeze them flat.

To freeze meatballs, first brown them, then place them on a baking sheet. Freeze the baking sheet for a few hours (or overnight), until the meatballs are solid. Transfer the frozen meatballs to a zip-top freezer bag.

Sauce and meatballs will remain fresh for up to three months.

Allrecipes Community Tips and Praise

“Great recipe and always well received by the family! I quickly pan fry the meatballs just enough to get the outsides brown, but not cooked all the way through. It adds firmness and nice color. I have also made this successfully in the crackpot and let it simmer for hours,” says BigHungryBrownBear.

“My boyfriend is Italian and this is as close to home as he’s ever felt since his move to Minnesota to be with me. He loved this recipe but he did insist that I bake the meatballs prior to adding them to the sauce. I use this recipe at least 3 times a month,” according to holliollie83.

“Great recipe. I made this just as it stated and it turned out wonderful. I added a little bit more parmesan cheese but besides that it was great on its own. I was worried about not cooking the meatballs first but they cooked perfectly in the sauce. I will make these again for sure. No need to buy premade meatballs when these are so easy,” raves Jackie Applegate.

Editorial contributions by Bailey Fink

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