Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, slow cooked pork meatball pasta bake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Slow cooked Pork Meatball Pasta bake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Slow cooked Pork Meatball Pasta bake is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
How do I make Slow Cooker Pasta Bake with Meatballs? Get your spaghetti sauce ready to pour in the crock pot. Keep alternating sauce, noodles and meatballs until you have put all of the ingredients in the crock pot.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook slow cooked pork meatball pasta bake using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Slow cooked Pork Meatball Pasta bake:
- Make ready 260 g sausage meat (approx. 4 thick good quality sausages)
- Make ready 15 g dried porcini mushrooms
- Prepare 130 g cherry tomatoes
- Make ready 1 medium pepper
- Prepare 15 g ginger
- Prepare 1 chicken stock cube
- Take 1 medium celery
- Get 3 cloves garlic
- Prepare 1 tsp fennel seeds
- Take 2 tbsp soy sauce
- Take 1 medium courgette
- Take 125 g wholewheat fusilli pasta
- Get 40 g mature cheddar cheese
The pasta I use for this dish is penne. I like it because it holds it's shape well and holds the sauce as well. Make sure to cook it to just before al dente (so that you can see just a little ring of uncooked pasta in the middle when you bite into it - this will ensure the pasta is perfectly finished off in the oven. How to Make a Penne Pasta Bake.
Instructions to make Slow cooked Pork Meatball Pasta bake:
- Boil a kettle. To a jug add 350ml boiled water. The dried porcini mushrooms, the chicken stock cube and the soy sauce. Mix well and put to one side.
- To a bowl and the sausage meat, fennel seeds, the ginger (peeled first) and half of the courgette (no need to peel) both grated. Mix well and separate into 4 big and juicy meatballs. Put to one side.
- Peel and grate the garlic. Grate the remaining courgette(no need to peel), roughly chop the pepper and cherry tomatoes and dice the celery. Add all of the vegetables to a slow cooker.
- Top the vegetables with the meatballs and pour over the stock you made first (avoid tipping in any of the mushrooms).
- Place on the lid and cook on low for 7 hours.
- Pre heat an oven to 180°C
- Once the meatballs have cooked for 7 hours. Very gently remove them and add the pasta. Give everything a good stir and then gently return the meatballs for another 15mins with the lid on.
- Gently remove the meatballs and add the pasta and the sauce to an oven proof dish. Top with the meatballs and grate over the cheese.
- Place in the oven for 20-25mins or until the cheese is fully melted and the meatballs are browned.
In a pan, saute onion and garlic until fragrant and stir in reamaining sauce ingredients. Add sauce along with cooked penne to the meatballs (in the same pan… less dishes!) and top with cheese. In a slow cooker, mix the spaghetti sauce, crushed tomatoes, and tomato puree. Place the meatballs into the sauce mixture. Pasta can be a quick weeknight meal, but if you're wanting a rich, slow-cooked sauce or cuts of meat that have simmered until incredibly tender, you'll have to invest quite a bit more time.
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