Name: Spaghetti with Meatballs
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: grated Parmesan, to serve; 250 g/9 oz minced steak or beef; 1½ onions, finely chopped; 1-3 fresh Thai or finger chillies, finely chopped; 500 g/1 lb 2 oz dried spaghetti; 500 g/1 lb 2 oz minced pork; 2 tablespoons olive oil; 85 g/3 oz breadcrumbs, soaked in 125 ml/4 fl oz milk for 10 minutes, then squeezed out; 8 basil leaves, torn; 2½ x 400 g/14 oz cans chopped tomatoes; 1 clove garlic, finely chopped; 2–5 dried chillies, crumbled; sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 whole egg and 1 yolk

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Let's Eat

By Tom Parker Bowles

Published 2013

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Italian-American food at its best, star of more mob movies than you can shake a cannoli at. Purists may argue that Goodfellas, Martin Scorsese’s red-sauce-splashed classic, was the meatball’s greatest ever cinematic moment. ‘Veal, beef, pork … mumbles Vinnie, cooking up his prison feast. ‘You gotta have the pork. That’s the flavour.’ As well as cutting the garlic with a razor blade. But it’s actually in Point Break, Kathryn B