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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook smokey meatball pasta bake using 23 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Smokey Meatball Pasta Bake:
- Get Meatballs
- Take 500 g Beef Mince
- Get 100 g Fresh Breadcrumbs
- Make ready 2 tsp Wholegrain Mustard
- Take 1 tbsp Ketchup
- Get 1 tsp Garlic powder
- Take 2 tsp Oregano
- Make ready Salt
- Prepare Pepper
- Make ready 1 tbsp Rapeseed Oil
- Prepare Sauce
- Get 1 Small Onion (diced)
- Take 2 Carrots (grated)
- Prepare 2 Garlic Cloves (crushed)
- Make ready Chopped Tomatoes 400g Tin
- Get 4 tbsp Tomatoes Puree
- Make ready 200 ml red wine
- Get 2 tsp Smoked Paprika
- Take 1 Star Anise (Whole)
- Make ready To Finish
- Take 400 g Pasta
- Take 100 g Oak Smoked Cheddar
- Prepare 100 g Mature Cheddar (grated)
Pour sauce over pasta and stir in meat balls. Transfer to baking dish and sprinkle over cheddar. 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.
Instructions 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.
Remove the meatballs from the oven. Add the sugar to the tomato mixture and season with salt and pepper. Remove and discard the thyme sprigs. Arrange the meatballs over the tomato mixture in the pan. Smoky Meatballs in a tangy tomato sauce, baked together with rigatoni pasta and topped with lots of bubbling melted cheese.
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