Pasta with meatballs recipe
Created by The Tesco Recipes team
For the ultimate comforting food hug, you can’t beat a bowl full of pasta with meatballs and cheese. And this classic recipe only takes twenty minutes to prepare, so you can make a batch to fuel the whole family any day of the week.
See method- Serves 4
- 20 mins to prepare and 30 mins to cook
- 887 calories / serving
Ingredients
- 6 tbsp olive oil
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 1 x 680g bottle tomato passata
- 50ml (2fl oz) dry white wine (optional)
For the meatballs
- 500g (1lb) lean minced beef
- 50g Parmesan, grated
- 2-3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 1 egg yolk
- 30g (1oz) handful fresh white breadcrumbs
- 1 tbsp finely chopped parsley plus extra to serve
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 400g (13oz) fresh tagliatelle
- grated Parmesan cheese, to serve
Each serving contains
- Energy
- 3715kJ 887.0kcal
- Fat
- 46g
- Saturates
- 14g
- Salt
- 1.8g
- Sugars
- 14g
of the Reference intake
Carbohydrate 75.8gProtein 44.8gFibre 5.6g
Method
- First make the sauce, heat the olive oil in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat, add the onion and garlic and fry for a few minutes until softened but not coloured. Stir in the passata and white wine, if using, and set aside. Simmer the sauce for 12-15 minutes until it has thickened.
- Next, make the meatballs. In a large bowl, mix the minced beef, Parmesan, garlic, egg yolk, breadcrumbs, parsley together, season then mould into 12 meatballs (roughly 50g each).
- Heat the olive oil in a frying pan over medium-low heat, add the meatballs and cook, shaking the pan occasionally, for 4-5 minutes or until browned all over. Heat the sauce and stir the meatballs into the pan. Cover and simmer, over medium heat, for a further 15 minutes, until the sauce has thickened and the meatballs are cooked through.
- While the meatballs cook, bring a large pan of salted water to the boil and cook the tagilatele for 2-3 minutes until al dente. Drain and serve with the tomato meatballs, sprinkled with parsley and extra Parmesan.
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