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Mozzarella meatballs

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Serves 6

Easy

Total time: 1 hr and 30 mins

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"An ultra rich tomatoey sauce and the mozzarella in the meatballs is a cool little surprise when you cut them open. Perfect for family meals and children will love them. Trust me, it is easier than it looks!"

Ingredients

For the rice tomato sauce:

• 2-3 tbsp olive oil

• 1 large onion

  finely chopped

• 1 medium green pepper

  finely chopped

• 2-3 garlic cloves

  minced

• 300g mushrooms

  thinly sliced (close cup or button mushrooms)

• 2 cans chopped tomatoes

• 1 large splodge tomato purée

• ½ glass red wine

• 1 chicken oxo cube

• salt and pepper

  to taste

• 2-3 tbsp mixed herbs

  (such as dried sage, oregano, thyme)

For the mozzarella stuffed meatballs:

• ½ glass red wine

• 3-4 slices bread

  (white bread is best but you can use any)

• 1.5lbs minced meat

  (use any meat, I used ½ pork, ½ beef)

• 1 tbsp mixed herbs

  (dried sage, oregano and thyme)

• 1 tsp parmesan cheese

• black pepper

  to taste

• 1 egg

  beaten

• 100g mozzarella

  cubed so there's 1 cube per meatball

• 2-3 tbsp olive oil

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Method

• step 1

  For the tomato sauce heat the oil in a decent sized saucepan. When the oil is hot enough add the onion, pepper and garlic. Stir this mixture and cook for a few minutes on a medium heat till it has all softened and the onions are almost see-through. Then add the mushrooms and cook for a few minutes more.

• step 2

  Now add the tinned tomatoes, tomato puree, herbs, salt & pepper, wine and oxo cube. Don't worry about pour the wine in after the tinned tommatoes as there is no need to bubble off the alcohol in a dry pan as simmering the sauce later will do this anyway.

• step 3

  Bring the sauce to the boil and then simmer for 1/2 an hour to an hour. Keep the lid off of the pan till the sauce as thickened up enough for you, when you can then put the lid back on. If the sauce is too dry at any point add some water. Stir occasionally to check that the sauce isn't sticking to the pan and that it isn't too dry.

• step 4

  For the meatballs, soak the breadcrumbs in the wine for 5 minutes. While this is happening use the time to check the sauce and preheat the oven to 125C (in a non fan assisted oven).

• step 5

  Add to the breadcrumbs the minced meat, mixed herbs, parmesan, pepper and egg. Mix this all up with your hands.

• step 6

  Split this meat mixture into 30 - 40 meatballs roughly. With each meatball flatten it out roughly in one hand, add a cube of mozzarella and shape the meatball so that the mozzarella is sealed inside each one.

• step 7

  When the meatballs are all rounded, heat the oil in a frying pan to brown and seal the meatballs in batches. When browned, add the meatballs to an oven dish.

• step 8

  Put the meatballs in the oven for 25-30 minutes, and mix them around 1/2 way through so that they all cook evenly.

• step 9

  When you take them out, cut a fat one open just to check that they are cooked all the way through. If not quite completely cooked pop back in the oven for 5 more minutes.

• step 10

  Serve this with spaghetti. You can either stir the pasta, sauce and meatballs all together and serve, or you can add the sauce to the meatballs in the oven dish, sprinkle with grated cheese and bake for 5 minutes more, till the cheese has melted. Be aware that the quantity of meatballs for this recipe will serve more people than the sauce will, so you can put any leftover meatballs in the fridge for another day :)

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