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"meat"ball ingredients:
- 1 red onion (chopped)
- 1 garlic clove (crushed)
- 1 packet quorn mince
- 1 tsp paprika
- 2-3 tbsp tomato paste
- 1 cup breadcrumbs
- 2 tsp chili flakes
- 1 tsp Italian herbs
- 1 egg (beaten)
sauce ingredients:
- 1 jar pasta sauce
- 1 carrot (grated)
- 1 zucchini (grated)
- 6 mushrooms (grated)
- pitted kalamata olives
- fresh basil leaves
- 2 tsp smoked BBQ sauce
- crumbled fetta
- baby spinach leaves
(and spaghetti, obviously)
let's do it:
Start by putting your spaghetti in a pot of water on the stove...
Fry up the onion with the garlic, then add the mince, herbs & paprika, and tomato paste; cook for about 5 mins (until soft). Now take it off the heat and stir in your breadcrumbs & chilli flakes. Leave this to cool, and when you come back, add your beaten egg. Now you're ready to roll them into balls (just smaller than golf balls) and pop them in the oven. 20 mins on 180 degrees C should do the trick!
While these are in the oven, throw the zucchini, mushroom, carrot into the frying pan, cooking for about 4-5 mins, then add the sauce. Once it's heated through, throw in your olives & BBQ sauce. It only need to heat up, while you wait for your balls to brown, then you can add your basil leaves as the final touch.
To assemble; this part is really up to you, but we first put the spaghetti on the plate, then a layer of spinach leaves. We then arranged the "meat"balls on the bed of spinach, and spooned the sauce over the top. Crumble the fetta on the very top, and voila! You're done.
