Meatball Ragu
Recipe: #30616
October 10, 2018
"From one of our national supermarkets free monthly magazine June 2018."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (732.9 g)
- Calories 1146.3
- Total Fat - 70.6 g
- Saturated Fat - 28.1 g
- Cholesterol - 497.4 mg
- Sodium - 1241.2 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 25.8 g
- Dietary Fiber - 5 g
- Sugars - 12.9 g
- Protein - 99.1 g
- Calcium - 664.5 mg
- Iron - 9.2 mg
- Vitamin C - 49.5 mg
- Thiamin - 1.2 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Combine minces, onion, garlic, parsley, breadcrumbs and egg and mix together well using your hands and then roll into large meatballs and place into the slow cooker.
Step 2
Add tomatoes, tomato paste and chopped basil and season with salt and pepper and cover and cook on low setting for 6 hours.
Step 3
When ready to serve, preheat grill/broiler to high and transfer meatballs and sauce to a large heatproof dish and scatter with mozzarella and parmesan and grill/broil for 6 minutes or until golden.
Step 4
Scatter with extra basil and serve.
Step 5
TIP - NO SLOW COOKER - brown meatballs in a frying pan over medium heat, turning often, until wel browned and then add tomatoes, paste and basil and bring to the boil and transfer to an overnroof dish and bake a preheated oven (180C) for 25 minutes or until meatballs are cooked through and then top with cheeses and bake for a further 10 minutes until melted.
Tips
No special items needed.