Goodbye Meatballs - Alison Roman

Ingredients

• 1 cup whole milk, full fat ricotta cheese (I have also used cottage cheese and it worked perfectly, surprise, because cottage cheese is perfect!)
• ½ cup finely chopped parsley
• ½ cup grated parmesan cheese
• 2 large eggs
• 2-3 garlic cloves, finely grated or chopped
• ½ medium yellow or red onion , very finely chopped (you’ll use the other half of the onion for the sauce)
• 2 teaspoons kosher salt , plus more
• Freshly ground black pepper and/or crushed red pepper flakes
• 1 pound ground beef
• 1 pound ground pork
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 ½ medium yellow or red onions , finely chopped
• 6 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
• Kosher salt , freshly ground black pepper
• A few anchovies or couple of dashes of fish sauce, if you want
• 2–3 tablespoons tomato paste , if you’ve got it
• 1 28 ounce can whole, peeled tomatoes , crushed by hand (or 1 28 ounce can crushed tomatoes)
• 12–16 ounces fresh tomatoes , chopped