One pan, 30 minutes and endless deliciousness let's make a mouthwatering spaghetti and
meatballs dinner that ensures cleanup is a breeze and makes your taste buds happy. [Music]
Hi I'm Nicky, welcome back to our kitchen where we show you how to make delicious
family-friendly recipes. Now what are we looking for, for a weeknight dinner, we want something
quick, something easy, something that the whole family will enjoy and something where cleanup
is super easy and this spaghetti and meatballs ticks all those boxes so let's get cooking. First
of all add 500 grams of minced beef to a bowl along with a large chopped onion and an egg.
Next in goes three tablespoons of grated Parmesan, three tablespoons of Panko bread crumbs
and quarter of a teaspoon each of salt and black pepper.
Now mix everything together with your hands until thoroughly combined.
Now I'm going to make this mixture into 16 meatballs which should be
about walnut sized, so not too big and therefore they should cook quite quickly.
So roll up the meatballs with your hands and place them on a tray lined with some baking parchment.
Okay so that made more like 20 but you want to keep them quite small so they cook quite
quickly so don't worry if you get a few more. Right now we're going to start frying up those
meatballs so I'm going to wash my hands and then we'll get them on frying. Now heat a large frying
pan or a cast iron pan over a medium to high heat. We're going to add in a tablespoon of oil plus a
tablespoon of unsalted butter. Once that butter is melted then we'll add in those meatballs.
So we're going to cook these meatballs for about five to six minutes turning
about two or three times until they're nice and golden brown all
over and then we'll start adding in the rest of the ingredients. [Music]
Okay so once they're nice and browned we're going to move them over to one side of the pan, now they
won't be fully cooked at this point but that's okay they'll carry on cooking with the rest
of the ingredients. And in that space that's left we're going to start adding the vegetables.
So into that space goes the onion that we chopped earlier,
along with two celery sticks that have also been finely chopped.
We're also adding in two cloves of minced garlic and
a quarter of a teaspoon each of salt and pepper.
Now cook that together for about three to four minutes until the onions start to soften.
Once those onions are lovely and soft add in a 400 gram or 14 ounce tin of finely chopped
tomatoes along with two tablespoons of tomato puree, or paste if you're in the U.S,
a teaspoon of dried thyme, a teaspoon of light brown sugar and a crumbled beef stock cube.
Then we're going to pour over 600 ml, which is about two and a half cups, of just boiled water.
Now stir all that together and bring it to the boil.
Make a bit of a space in the pan and then we're going to
add in 200 grams, which is about seven ounces, of dried spaghetti.
So we want to make sure that all that pasta is covered in the liquid and then we're going
to place the lid on top and cook that for about 10 to 12 minutes, we'll give it a stir
a couple of times during cooking, you can also add an extra splash of water if it starts to
look a bit dry. Now cooking the pasta in this way it means that the pasta absorbs
all that beautiful sauce so you get a really delicious flavor to go with those meatballs.
Once that spaghetti is perfectly cooked then
divide between four bowls and top with those juicy meatballs.
I love to finish these meatballs off with a sprinkling of Parmesan and some fresh parsley.
And there you go there's my one pan spaghetti and meatballs. Those meatballs are lovely and juicy
from being cooked in the sauce, I know the kids are going to absolutely devour these. If you're looking
for some more quick and easy meals then check them out here see you next time. [Music]