Name: Spaghetti with Meatballs
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 30 g(1 oz) butter; grated parmesan cheese, to serve; 3 or 4 basil leaves, torn; 350 g(12 oz) spaghetti; ½ small red onion; ½ teaspoon ground cumin; ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon; 2 tablespoons chopped parsley; 400 g(14 oz) tinned diced tomatoes; 2 garlic cloves, peeled and squashed a bit; 2 tablespoons olive oil; about 4 tablespoons light olive oil, for frying; 400 g(14 oz) minced (ground) pork and beef; 4 tablespoons milk; 40–50 g(1½–2 oz) soft crustless white bread, torn into chunks

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Apples for Jam

By Tessa Kiros

Published 2010

About

If you’re organized, you could make the meatballs in tomato sauce the day before and just heat them up while you’re cooking the pasta. Once you have fried the meatballs, you will have some nice tasty oil with meaty bits in the saucepan. I like to sauté some just-parboiled spinach or even potatoes in this until they have mingled with the pan oil and drunk up the flavour. Serve the spinach as a side dish and then all you need is a couple of small scoops of ice cream for dessert and you’re set