Smoky Meatball Pasta Bake

Smoky Meatball Pasta Bake

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

Ingredients

  Meatballs:

·        Meatballs:

·        500 g minced beef

·        1 shallot finely diced

·        1 garlic clove peeled and minced

·        60 g breadcrumbs I used half fresh and half dried

·        1 medium egg

·        1 tsp Italian dried herbs I used a mixture of oregano and thyme

·        1 tsp vegetable oil

·        Pasta:

·        250 g dried pasta I used rigatoni

·        Smoky Sauce:

·        400 g tinned chopped tomatoes or passata Ciara uses passata, but I used chopped tomatoes in mine as that's what I had in

·        75 ml beef stock Ciara gives the option of using red wine or beef stock

·        1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

·        1 tsp smoked paprika

·        Also:

·        80 g grated Chedder cheese Ciara uses 40g, but we like lots of cheese

·        30 g grated mozzarella

·        salt and pepper to taste

·        chopped parsley to garnish

Instructions

1.     Preheat the oven to 200C/400F

2.     Start by making the meatballs. Place the minced beef, shallot, garlic, breadcrumbs egg, dried herbs and a pinch of salt and pepper in a bowl and mix together to combine.

3.     Lightly grease a large baking dish with the vegetable oil, then form the mince mixture into 12 meatballs (about the size of a golf ball). Place in the prepared baking dish.

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