Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, meatball pasta bake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook meatball pasta bake using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Meatball Pasta Bake:
- Prepare 150 g pasta dried pieces / 5 oz .
- Take 250 g Low fat (<5%) meatballs (about 16, halve and re-roll if larger meatballs used) / 10 oz .
- Make ready 175 g pickling onions (about 8 - sliced) / 6 oz .
- Prepare 150 g celery (cut 3 times lengthways then across the grain into cubes) / 5 oz .
- Prepare 150 g mushrooms (cubed) / 6 oz .
- Make ready 200 g tomatoes chopped / 7 oz . (½ x 1 can)
- Get 2 babybel light (chopped into about six pieces each)
- Prepare 175 ml water boiling / 6 fl . oz .
- Prepare 1 beef stock cube
- Prepare 1 teaspoon garlic salt ground and
- Make ready 1 teaspoon mixed Italian herbs *
- Take 1 teaspoon black pepper
- Prepare 2 teaspoons cornstarch cornflour /
- Get “ Spray2Cook ” (a word used to describe any low-cal. non-stick cook’s oil spray)
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Steps to make Meatball Pasta Bake:
- Spray a deep lidded fry pan with Spray2Cook and put on a high heat.
- When the Spray2Cook is bubbling turn the heat down a little and add the meatballs.
- Stir-fry until brown on all sides and then ad the onion and celery. Continue to stir-fry for 4 minutes before adding the mushroom.
- After a further 2 minutes of stir-frying add the tomatoes and water and bring to the boil. Add the stock cube, garlic salt, herbs and pepper. Cover the pan and simmer for 15 minutes.
- Pre-heat an oven (180oC / 350oF / Gas Mark 4).
- Put the pasta into boiling water and cook for 10 minutes, drain and return to the pan to set aside.
- Blend the cornstarch with a little water (adding slowly) and then add the blended cornstarch to the meatball mix pan at the end of its cooking time.
- Stir in and briefly bring to the boil. Pour half the contents, but not the meatballs, into and ovenproof dish then pour over the pasta.
- Make sure the pasta is coated.
- Pour over the rest of the sauce and arrange the meatballs and cheese evenly across the dish.
- Put the dish in the oven for 15 minutes.
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