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Easy Homemade Meatballs
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Easy Homemade Meatballs with Tomato Sauce

Quick, delicious and very child friendly these Easy Homemade Meatballs with Tomato Sauce are perfect served with spaghetti for an easy peasy midweek meal.
Course Main Course
Cuisine American, Italian
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings 4 people
Calories 421kcal
Author Eb Gargano

Ingredients

Easy Homemade Meatballs

  • 250 g beef mince
  • 250 g pork mince
  • ½ onion grated
  • 1 clove garlic grated
  • 25 g parmesan cheese grated
  • Salt and pepper to taste

Easy Tomato Sauce

  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • ½ onion diced
  • 1 clove garlic crushed or grated
  • 250 ml passata (or chopped tinned tomatoes)
  • 1 tablespoon fresh basil ripped or chopped roughly
  • Salt and pepper to taste

To serve

  • Spaghetti (or your favourite pasta shape)
  • Parmesan cheese grated (or mozzarella, or cheddar)
  • Basil leaves
Metric - US Customary

Instructions

  • Preheat your oven to 220C / 200C fan / gas mark 7 / 425F.
  • Place all the meatball ingredients in a large bowl and mix together thoroughly with your hands (you can do this with a wooden spoon, if you prefer, but it’s much better done with your hands!)
  • Roll mixture into balls of roughly 25g (1 oz). This should make approximately 44 balls. (Tip – there’s no need to weigh every single meatball! Simply weigh out the first one, then try to make all the other balls roughly the same size by eye.)
  • Place the balls on a baking tray lined with lightly greased foil and cook in the pre-heated oven for 20 minutes. There’s no need to turn them.
  • While the meatballs are baking in the oven, make the tomato sauce. Place the oil and diced onion in a wide saucepan or a deep frying pan (a sauté pan is ideal) and cook over a low heat with the lid on for 3 minutes, or until softened but not browned. Add the garlic and fry gently for 2 more minutes, stirring occasionally.
  • Add the passata, basil, salt and pepper and bring to the boil. Turn the heat down again and simmer for 10 minutes.
  • Add the oven-baked meatballs to the sauce and simmer for a further 5 minutes.
  • Serve over spaghetti and with a sprinkling of parmesan and a scatter of basil leaves.

Notes

  1. Suitable for freezing.
  2. Nutrition information is approximate and meant as a guideline only.

Nutrition

Calories: 421kcal | Carbohydrates: 10g | Protein: 25g | Fat: 31g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Cholesterol: 94mg | Sodium: 196mg | Potassium: 683mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 395IU | Vitamin C: 10.6mg | Calcium: 115mg | Iron: 3mg