One-pan mozzarella meatballs
Meatballs conjure visions of happy and informal shared dinners with laughter and talking. Little spheres of shared joy in a slightly spicy tomato sauce with milky hot mozzarella.
- Prep: 5-10 mins
- Cook: 15 mins
- Servings: 2
Ingredients
- 20 meatballs (buy pre-made quality ones with no funny additives)
- 1 clove of garlic crushed
- ½ a small onion, finely chopped
- ½ a red chilli, chopped
- large splash of wine (red or white)
- 350g passata
- 3 tbsp tomato purée
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 ball of buffalo mozzarella, chopped finely (impossible to grate)
- 2 teaspoons of dried mixed herbs
- sea salt and black pepper to taste
Nuush clients: Please apply the portion sizes stated in your account and divide the recipe so that you make only as much you need.
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 190c. Gently fry the meatballs, without any added oil, in an ovenproof pan or casserole. Once they’re nicely brown, remove them to a bowl while you make the sauce.
Gently fry the garlic, chilli and onion and cook until the onion is soft. Add wine then tip in the passata and add the sugar, tomato purée, salt, herbs and black pepper. Simmer for a few minutes.
Add the meatballs back into the pan and coat them with sauce, then scatter the mozzarella on and another sprinkle of dried herbs. Place in the oven for ten minutes until the mozzarella is melting and oozy.
Nutrition Info
Beef
Beef is a good source of vitamin B12, which is key for red blood cell production (tuna, salmon and sardines are actually many times higher in B12 though!). It’s also rich in vitamin B3, which helps to convert food into energy, incidentally mushrooms are also high in B3 and included in this recipe. Adding some vegetables raises the fibre and nutrient profile.
Tomatoes
Tomatoes are rich in lycopene which is a pokey antioxidant. Antioxidants are like bouncers at a night club, they go around finding stray electrons that are busy causing trouble in your body, and find them a love partner so they can both stay in and cuddle on the sofa.
Tomatoes are also a brilliant source of vitamin C, which supports skin and connective tissue health as well as immunity and iron absorption. The biotin in tomatoes is good for controlling blood sugar.
Find your new natural
“A tavola non si invecchia.”
Translation: At the table with good friends and family you do not become old.
Italian proverb
Portion Guidelines
Instead of living with the bore of weighing food, counting points or calories and tapping everything you eat into a phone you can use nature’s custom-designed tool – your hands!
