{"id":4411,"date":"2025-01-24T15:12:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T15:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/?p=4411"},"modified":"2025-01-24T15:13:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T15:13:50","slug":"corinne-rachelles-meatballs-with-spaghetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/?p=4411","title":{"rendered":"Corinne Rachelle's Meatballs with Spaghetti"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Meat Balls and Spaghetti<\/strong>\u00a0
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My mother was a wonderful cook, and this is one of her go to mid-week meals. However, with little effort can be dressed up for friends you can easily convert this recipe if your guests are gluten free, so no one has to miss out. This beauty of this meal can be prepared and cooked from scratch within 45 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the meatballs, This recipe serves 6-8 people and freezes well.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 kilo minced meat, you can choose beef, turkey, chicken, or lamb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 large onion peeled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00bd cup parsley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00bd cup coriander<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 cloves of garlic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 eggs beaten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00be cup of breadcrumbs, I use gluten free bread, but you can use any bread<\/p>\n\n\n\n

crumbs, matzo meal, or cornflakes ground down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00bd teaspoon ground black pepper<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00bd teaspoon good quality salt<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 pinch cinnamon (it brings out the meat flavour)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00bd teaspoon baking powder this helps keep the meatballs light and fluffy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a quick and easy tomato sauce<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 onion diced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 leek diced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 cloves garlic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00bd teaspoon oregano (dried works)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00bd teaspoon chili flakes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 large tin crushed tomatoes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00be litre passata<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00bd cup wine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I carrot chopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 stalks celery chopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00bd teaspoon salt<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00bd teaspoon black pepper<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00bd dessert spoon oil<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1 stock cube (optional)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To make meat balls.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Place the meat in a bowl, add the eggs. salt, pepper & baking powder. Place the bread, parsley, onion, garlic, coriander in a food processor and pulse till \u00a0fine. Then add the bread and onion mix to the meat, mix well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rinse your hands under cold water and make into meat balls (you need them to be medium size)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Place the meat balls into the fridge to chill while you make the sauce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To make the sauce<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heat the oil in a thick bottom pot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Add the onion leeks, carrots, garlic, and celery stir and cook on a medium heat for 3-5 minutes or till onions are translucent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Add all the other ingredients, bring to the boil then turn heat down and simmer for 10 minutes, with a lid on the pot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check the flavour and adjust to taste. (If you like a smooth sauce, you can now blend it with a hand blender.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To cook the meat balls<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Add the meatballs to the pot and stir gently into the sauce. Reduce the heat to a simmer and cook for 30 minutes, stirring very gently a couple of times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cook your pasta.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You will need 1 packet of your favourite spaghetti you can use regular, wholemeal, or gluten free and follow the instruction on packet to cook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To serve<\/strong>\u00a0you can either mix you sauce and meat balls to the spaghetti and mix, although personally I prefer to place the meatballs and sauce on top of the spaghetti in the individual serving bowl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To dress this up for guests, serve with a green salad, garlic bread, and a glass of your favourite wine! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enjoy.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meat Balls and Spaghetti\u00a0 My mother was a wonderful cook, and this is one of her go to mid-week meals. However, with little effort can be dressed up for friends you can easily convert this recipe if your guests are gluten free, so no one has to miss out. This beauty of this meal can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4413,"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411\/revisions\/4413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shavuatov.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}