Hi guys.
I'm going to be showing you one of my family favourite recipes, it's Spaghetti and Meatballs,
or in my house it's more commonly known as mummy's meatballs.
It's simple,
it's delicious
and it's affordable.
Let me show you the ingredients.
We've got two-hundred and fifty grams of beef mince.
Two-hundred and fifty grams of lamb mince. A tea spoon of oregano, a tea
spoon of paprika, a tea spoon of ground cumin, twelve cream crackers and an egg.
You're going to need a large mixing bowl. A large, shallow frying pan and a rolling pin.
We're also
going to be using some of my
homemade
pasta sauce.
Now I'm not going to show you how to make this this time but if you'd like to see
it,
click the link now and you can watch me do it,
and don't forget to come back and watch the rest of this one.
Let's get started.
Put our cream crackers in the middle.
Bunch it up, not too tight.
Usually in cooked meat a lot of the juice comes out. The crackers are there to
soak it up. You'll never have a dry meatball.
That's a promise.
And if you get to this point
and you can't really get these little big bits,
just do it without covering them back up, but do it carefully because if you do it hard,
they'll just fly all over your kitchen
and you'll have a load of mess to clear up.
So we want it some big bits, some dust,
but mostly crumbs.
We're going to put the spices in.
Now we're going to add the meat. Break it up.
Run your fingers through it.
Now I'm going to add the egg
to help it all stick together.
This is the messy part.
It's quite therapeutic actually.
It feels quite nice.
Now this mixture will make about
twenty-four meatballs
depending on what size you roll them.
Dip your hands in a little bit of cold water.
It will be a lot easier to roll
and it will stop the meat from sticking to your hands.
While you're rolling out your meatballs it's a good idea to have your frying pan on a low to
medium heat
just so it's warming up nicely so when you've finished rolling
you'll be ready to fry straight away.
Scrunch it a little bit just to join it all together
and then in between the palms of both hands, just lightly,
hardly any pressure
and just roll round and round and round
until
they're ball shaped.
And then you just keep rolling until you've finished all your mix.
Just going to wash my hands.
Right now we're going to start frying off our meatballs.
I've got my pan heating up.
We're not going to put any oil
in the frying pan
because mince has got quite a high fat content already
and as they start to cook they'll start to release their own fat. Give it a minute,
give it a shake.
Give it another minute, give it another shake
until they're nice and brown on all sides.
You can see how much they've changed.
Look at that crust.
That's perfect, that's what we're looking for.
We're going to turn that off.
One by one
just plop them
in the sauce.
This pasta sauce has just been sitting here
for about ten minutes, simmering away while I've been frying the meatballs.
And we're going to leave that on the low simmer
just to make sure that the meatballs are cooked all the way through.
Now it's time for pasta. I've already got some on the go but if you want to see
how i cook pasta
click the link from and you can watch me do it.
So I'm just going to drain this off.
We're just going to put a little bit of olive oil.
Maybe about a tablespoon or just a little bit less.
And then we want to toss that all through the pasta. Look at that. Beautiful and shiny
and lovely that is.
Now even if you leave that and it goes cold
I guarantee you
it still won't stick together because it's got that little coat of olive oil.
Right let's have a look at these meatballs. They've been cooking away nicely for the past twenty-five
minutes.
This is how yours are going to look.
Beautiful and dark
and rich. The meatballs are cooked all the way through. Still juicy.
Let's plate it up.
You want to make it look a little bit posh, a little bit restaurantfied, this is what Jamie taught me. Get your
pasta and as you're putting it in you
twist it
so it sits
in the same place that you left it.
It doesn't just sort of spread out
and fall all over the plate in a big mess.
If you've got this far, you've done it, well done.
You've made meatballs with a homemade pasta sauce and spaghetti.
You've fed your family,
you've done a brilliant job. I'm going to serve it with my garlic bread and a side salad. If you'd
like to see how I do that click these links and that will take you straight to the
videos and you can watch me do it.
Enjoy it. You'll do a brilliant job I know you will. Good luck.
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