Here is our Beloved Aunt Rosie in her very rosie dress, I tested her method for cooking the meatballs in the sauce. I am posting my Mother’s Sicilian Meatball recipe above for you to try, good luck and enjoy!

Cover all the meatballs with the sauce. Be sure to make a lot of sauce. Did I mention how to make the meatballs and the sauce?

Here are 3 pounds of uncooked meatballs that I threw into the sauce. I used 4 large cans of tomato, (2 crushed, 2 puree). OK I added a lot of parsley to the meat.

Make sure the sauce is boiling and then to cover all the meatballs with the sauce. I made too many meatballs so I had to take some out. The meatballs should be floating freely in the sauce so they can cook thoroughly. Simmer the sauce for at least an hour and a half. If you make too many meatballs, you can take them out and bake them in some sauce as I did. I used my extra large toaster oven at 350. I laid the extra meatballs into a pan and covered them completely with the sauce. I covered the baking pan and baked them for over an hour. All the meatballs were cooked, including the batch I cooked in the big pot of sauce.

So I would say, Yes to Aunt Rosie, you CAN throw them in the sauce! And I did! God Bless her!