Smokey Meatball Pasta Bake
Smokey Meatball Pasta Bake

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Smoky Meatballs in a tangy tomato sauce, baked together with rigatoni pasta and topped with lots of bubbling melted cheese. If you're looking for a meal that the whole family will demolish, this Smoky Meatball Pasta Bake is just the thing! Smoky Mozzarella Pasta and Meatball Bake.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have smokey meatball pasta bake using 23 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Smokey Meatball Pasta Bake:
  1. Take Meatballs
  2. Take 500 g Beef Mince
  3. Make ready 100 g Fresh Breadcrumbs
  4. Take 2 tsp Wholegrain Mustard
  5. Get 1 tbsp Ketchup
  6. Prepare 1 tsp Garlic powder
  7. Prepare 2 tsp Oregano
  8. Prepare Salt
  9. Make ready Pepper
  10. Take 1 tbsp Rapeseed Oil
  11. Prepare Sauce
  12. Get 1 Small Onion (diced)
  13. Make ready 2 Carrots (grated)
  14. Prepare 2 Garlic Cloves (crushed)
  15. Prepare Chopped Tomatoes 400g Tin
  16. Get 4 tbsp Tomatoes Puree
  17. Take 200 ml red wine
  18. Get 2 tsp Smoked Paprika
  19. Get 1 Star Anise (Whole)
  20. Get To Finish
  21. Make ready 400 g Pasta
  22. Take 100 g Oak Smoked Cheddar
  23. Prepare 100 g Mature Cheddar (grated)

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Instructions to make Smokey Meatball Pasta Bake:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

Transfer to baking dish and sprinkle over cheddar. Remove and discard the thyme sprigs. Arrange the meatballs over the tomato mixture in the pan. This rigatoni pasta is a tomato based recipe with homemade smoky meatballs. This pasta bake is going to be a winning dish for the family. #pasta #bake #meatball #smokey #cheese #rigatoni #recipe #easy #homemade Remove from heat, and stir in basil, cooked pasta, and salt to taste.

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