Meatballs (and sauces)

Mrs(no)money

I make mine the same as jonny2510 but also add a bit of freshly ground black pepper and a few chilli flakes to add a bit of ooomph!

For the sauce i cheat and use a tin of tomato soup 45p (not very OS but very quick!)

Oh, forgot to say that i make mine with pork mince!

specsappeal

Hi all,
I have had so much fun cooking alot of the recipes on here. Does anyone have a recipe for homemade meatballs and sauce. The simpler the better please. Thanks in advance!:D

**purpleprincess**

I've seen one for the slow cooker.....let me just go and find it!!!

Ta da!! Here we are!

Peem

If you can, get hold of a copy of "Nigella Bites". The meatball recipe in this is really easy and our entire family adores it. The only meal I can guarantee the kids will clear their plates for, no matter what they've been eating beforehand.

I've had a quick shuftie on Nigella's website but it doesn't seem to be there.

**purpleprincess**

Peem wrote:

If you can, get hold of a copy of "Nigella Bites". The meatball recipe in this is really easy and our entire family adores it. The only meal I can guarantee the kids will clear their plates for, no matter what they've been eating beforehand.

I've had a quick shuftie on Nigella's website but it doesn't seem to be there.

Is this it??

beachbeth

Peem wrote:

If you can, get hold of a copy of "Nigella Bites". The meatball recipe in this is really easy and our entire family adores it. The only meal I can guarantee the kids will clear their plates for, no matter what they've been eating beforehand.

I've had a quick shuftie on Nigella's website but it doesn't seem to be there.

I completely agree! These meatballs are lovely and go so well with Nigella's tomato sauce and pasta! Here is the recipe:

Meatballs

250g minced pork
250g minced beef
1 egg
2 tbs freshly grated parmesan
1 garlic clove, minced
3 tbsp semolina or breadcrumbs
good grind black pepper
1 tsp salt

Put all the above in a large bowl, mix with your hands and shape into small balls (about the size of a teaspoon). Line a baking sheet or plate with clingfilm and put the meatballs on this as you do them. Put in the fridge until you are ready to cook them.

Tomato Sauce

1 onion
2 cloves garlic
1 tsp dried oregano
1 tbs butter
1 tbs olive oil (not extra virgin)
700g bottle tomato passata
pinch sugar
salt and pepper
100ml full fat milk

Put onion, garlic and oregano into a food processor and mix. Melt the butter and oil in a pan that is wide and deep and then scrape the mix from the food processor into it. Cook gently for 10 minutes. Add into this the passata. Half fill the empty passata bottle with cold water and add this. Then add the sugar, salt and pepper and cook for another 10 minutes. Add the milk and then put in the meatballs. Do not stir at this point until the meatballs have lost their pinkness (otherwise you may break them up) and cook for 20 minutes, partially covering it with a lid.

Cook your pasta (tagliatelle is good) to go with the above - serves 6.

astonsmummy

I'v got copius amounts of mince in my freezer, and am fed up with boring spag bol or cottage pie! i'm gonna try this recepie this wekend, sounds lovely! I reckon DS will love it!

lynzpower

we do Al-bondingas ( HOT!) mexican meatballs

mince
finely chopped onion
lazy chilli
bit of beat egg if needed

Wack all in a bowl and squelch together. form into mini balls then flatten with the back of a fork. transfer to a griddle pan and cook for what, 10 mins.

In trhe meanwhile
lighly stirfry thin strips of peppers, transfer to a pan with passata in and more lazy chilli, and some chopped coriander

serve with rice & tortilla

morganlefay

My Mum taught me this one years ago - never fails in our house:

Some mince(beef is what I usually use, but could do pork or lamb I imagine)
Breadcrumbs (brown or white, make in food processor if you have one otherwise grate a stale loaf or forget them)
Tin campbells soup
1 egg
1 onion
About 1 tbsp tomato puree
Af ew squirts of either HP/brown sauce or Worcester Sauce
Garlic (chopped) if you like it
Dried or fresh herbs (thyme,and/or parsley or mediterranean herbs - anything really)

Finely chop the onion (or use FP to do this) add half this to the mince, plus egg, crumbs, garlic, salt and pepper. Squidge or whizz in FP till all nicely mixed.
Play mudpies and make meatballs and cook on a rack in M/W for about 4 mins (till firmed up a bit and probably changed colour.) You can do this bit by frying them in oil but I stopped doing that so we'd stop being fatties.

Fry rest of onion and some garlic for a few mins till soft but not brown (or do in MW) then mix this onion plus the soup diluted a bit (but not as much as is necessary for soup), can add a splosh of wine, some HP/brown sauce, more herbs, more puree - it depends on what you've got and how you fancy it.
Put meatballs into a flat dish in just one layer, pour soup mixture over, cover with foil and bake for about 35 mins. Take foil off for about another 10 mins, serve with mash.
I'm sure you could adapt this so the last, oven baking stage was done in SC, tho I haven't done it yet. Ummm I'm quite fancying some of these now and it's cold chicken this evening - bother......

morganlefay

Sorry I haven't got the hang of editing stuff - the Campbells soup can be Tomato or Mushroom, we prefer Tomato