Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, smokey meatball pasta bake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Smoky Mozzarella Pasta and Meatball Bake. Cook pasta according to the package instructions. Make the smoky sauce, mix together the tinned tomatoes/pasta, beef stock, Worcestershire sauce, paprika and a pinch of salt and pepper in a jug or bowl.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have smokey meatball pasta bake using 23 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Smokey Meatball Pasta Bake:
- Take Meatballs
- Prepare 500 g Beef Mince
- Take 100 g Fresh Breadcrumbs
- Take 2 tsp Wholegrain Mustard
- Make ready 1 tbsp Ketchup
- Prepare 1 tsp Garlic powder
- Get 2 tsp Oregano
- Prepare Salt
- Take Pepper
- Prepare 1 tbsp Rapeseed Oil
- Take Sauce
- Prepare 1 Small Onion (diced)
- Take 2 Carrots (grated)
- Take 2 Garlic Cloves (crushed)
- Make ready Chopped Tomatoes 400g Tin
- Get 4 tbsp Tomatoes Puree
- Take 200 ml red wine
- Prepare 2 tsp Smoked Paprika
- Prepare 1 Star Anise (Whole)
- Take To Finish
- Prepare 400 g Pasta
- Take 100 g Oak Smoked Cheddar
- Make ready 100 g Mature Cheddar (grated)
It'll cook more in the oven later with the pasta bake. This is by far the easiest way to cook the meatballs because there's no oil splatter and draining on paper towels. Add the chopped tomatoes chicken stock and oregano season well, and bring to the boil. Add the onion, garlic, bacon and oregano to a food processor and process until finely chopped.
Steps to make Smokey Meatball Pasta Bake:
- For the meatballs, add all of the ingredients into a mixing bowl and combine with a fork. Using your hands form into balls, mine were around 30-40g each, just smaller than a golf ball. In a large, deep frying pan add the oil and bring up to a medium high heat. Seal the meatballs and remove from the pan. Reduce the heat to medium. Add a large pan of salted water and bring to the boil… ready for your pasta later.
- For the sauce add the onions, carrot, garlic and star anise to the same pan. Fry these ingredients until they start to brown around 5 - 10 minutes, adding a little more oil if needed. Next, add the redwine and deglaze the pan and cook for 2-3 minutes. This is a good time to add your pasta to you boiling water. Also preheat your oven to 200c.
- Add the smoked paprika, chopped tomatoes and tomato puree to your frynimg pan and cook for 10 mins on a medium high heat. Keep working the sides and bottom of the pan to prevent sticking. The sauce should be darker in colour which signals its ready for the final step. You can add a splash of pasta water to loosen up the sauce if needed.
- Drain your cooked pasta and add to your sauce along with your meatballs. Mix together to coat everything in your sauce. Top with the cheeses and set im the oven for 20 mins until golden brown on top.
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