Pasta with fresh tomato, mushroom and meatballs
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Ingredients
- 2 vine-ripened or organic tomatoes
- 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 red chilli, chopped
- 1 garlic clove, mashed
- Fresh basil leaves, chopped
- Fresh baby spinach leaves
- Beef balls or sliced Chorizo sausage
- 1/2 onion
- 1 cup mushrooms
- Black olives
- Pinch of caster sugar
- Cooked pasta
- salt/pepper
- Parmesan cheese, grated
Beef balls ingredients: - 500g lean mince beef - 1/2 tbs coriander, finely chopped - 3 cloves garlic, mashed - 1 tsp ginger, minced - 1 tsp white pepper - 1 tbs fish sauce - 1/2 tbs light soy sauce - 5 eggs
- Chop tomatoes in half, place cut-side up on baking tray and brush with olive oil. Sprinkle salt/pepper.
- Bake tomatoes at 180c for 20 mins.
- Remove skin from tomatoes and chop roughly. Mix in bowl with olive oil, chillies, olives, garlic, basil, sugar, salt, pepper. Set aside for half an hour (do step 4 in the meantime).
- Cook beefballs (or Chorizo sausage), onion, mushrooms. Combine with pasta sauce in bowl, add fresh spinach leaves.
- Spoon sauce over cooked pasta. Top with Parmesan cheese and sprinkle pepper on top.
this looks highly, highly eatable. nyum.