How to Make Perfect Smokey Meatball Pasta Bake

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, smokey meatball pasta bake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Smokey Meatball Pasta Bake is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Smokey Meatball Pasta Bake is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have smokey meatball pasta bake using 23 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Smokey Meatball Pasta Bake:

1. Take Meatballs
2. Take 500 g Beef Mince
3. Make ready 100 g Fresh Breadcrumbs
4. Prepare 2 tsp Wholegrain Mustard
5. Take 1 tbsp Ketchup
6. Make ready 1 tsp Garlic powder
7. Make ready 2 tsp Oregano
8. Get Salt
9. Take Pepper
10. Make ready 1 tbsp Rapeseed Oil
11. Make ready Sauce
12. Take 1 Small Onion (diced)
13. Get 2 Carrots (grated)
14. Prepare 2 Garlic Cloves (crushed)
15. Prepare Chopped Tomatoes 400g Tin
16. Take 4 tbsp Tomatoes Puree
17. Prepare 200 ml red wine
18. Prepare 2 tsp Smoked Paprika
19. Get 1 Star Anise (Whole)
20. Take To Finish
21. Take 400 g Pasta
22. Take 100 g Oak Smoked Cheddar
23. Make ready 100 g Mature Cheddar (grated)

Instructions to make Smokey Meatball Pasta Bake:

1. For the meatballs, add all of the ingredients into a mixing bowl and combine with a fork. Using your hands form into balls, mine were around 30-40g each, just smaller than a golf ball. In a large, deep frying pan add the oil and bring up to a medium high heat. Seal the meatballs and remove from the pan. Reduce the heat to medium. Add a large pan of salted water and bring to the boil… ready for your pasta later.
2. For the sauce add the onions, carrot, garlic and star anise to the same pan. Fry these ingredients until they start to brown around 5 - 10 minutes, adding a little more oil if needed. Next, add the redwine and deglaze the pan and cook for 2-3 minutes. This is a good time to add your pasta to you boiling water. Also preheat your oven to 200c.
3. Add the smoked paprika, chopped tomatoes and tomato puree to your frynimg pan and cook for 10 mins on a medium high heat. Keep working the sides and bottom of the pan to prevent sticking. The sauce should be darker in colour which signals its ready for the final step. You can add a splash of pasta water to loosen up the sauce if needed.
4. Drain your cooked pasta and add to your sauce along with your meatballs. Mix together to coat everything in your sauce. Top with the cheeses and set im the oven for 20 mins until golden brown on top.

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