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Spaghetti With Meatballs


Okay, you can't go wrong with Spaghetti with Meatballs for sleepovers! I knew they would love them. This is yet, another good recipe from Tessa Kiros, Apple for Jams cookbook. They were brilliant!

Spaghetti With Meatballs

Ingredients


40-50 g (1 1/2-2 oz) Soft Crustless White Bread, Torn into Chunks
4 Tbsp Milk
400 g (14 oz) Minced (Ground) Pork And Beef
2 Tbsp Chopped Parsley
1/2 tsp Ground Cinnamon
1/2 tsp Ground Cumin
1/2 Small Red Onion
About 4 Tbsp Light Olive Oil, For Frying

Sauce:
2 Tbsp Olive Oil
2 Garlic Cloves, Peeled And Squashed A Bit
400 g (14 oz) Tinned Diced Tomatoes
3 or 4 Basil Leaves, torn


350 g (12 oz) Spaghetti
30 g (1 oz) Butter
Grated Parmesan Cheese, to serve

Method

For the meatballs, soak the bread in the milk in a small bowl, squishing it through your fingers so that it breaks up completely.

Put the mince in a large bowl with parsley, cinnamon, cumin, the bread mixture and 1/2 tsp of salt. Grate in the onion (it is easier to do this holding the whole onion and then keeping the unused half for another time). Mix everything together thoroughly, kneading it with your hands as though it were a bread dough. Form about 25 small meatballs the size of large cherry tomatoes, rolling them between your palms so they are compact and smooth. Keep the made ones on a plate while you finish rolling the rest. Depending on their age, kids might like to help you with the rolling.

Heat the light olive oil in a non-stick frying pan and fry the meatballs in batches, making sure they are golden before you turn them. You should be able to shuffle them by holding the handle of the pan and giving a good flick with your wrist. If not, use tongs to turn them.

Meanwhile, make the sauce. Heat the oil in a large saucepan which will eventually also hold the meatballs. Add the garlic cloves and, when you can smell them, add the tomato. Season with salt, add the basil and simmer for 10 minutes or so. Break up the tomatoes with a wooden spoon as you stir from time to time.

When all the meatballs have been fried, add them to the tomato sauce and stir in about 250 ml (9 fl oz/1 cup) of water. Simmer uncovered for another 20-25 minutes, until the meatballs are soft and there is a fair amount of thickened sauce to toss into your pasta. Taste for salt, adjusting if necessary.

Cook the spaghetti in boiling salted water; following the packet instructions. Drain, return to the cooking pot and gently but thoroughly toss the butter through. Serve the pasta in individual bowls with a good ladleful of the tomato sauce, a few meatballs and a scattering of parmesan cheese on top.

Comments

  1. mmm...looks so lusciously yummy. My kind of comfort food. I'm a sucker for pasta. getting hungry just looking at pics...bad for my diet. sigh.no prizes for guessing what's for dinner tonight.

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  2. it was delicious for the first time my husband love the spaghetti, and he even did serve him self twice,

    thank you for the excellent pasta you made me do.

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  3. Thanks! Made this today, added a little paprika to the meatballs though!
    :)

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