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Pork meatballs

This tasty dish provides one of your 5 a day.

This tasty dish provides one of your 5 a day.

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Cooking Time

Cook: 45 Mins

Cooking Time

Serves: 4

Cooking Time

Price: £1.00 per serving

Nutritional Information

Each 352g serving contains

Energy
2130kj
509kcal
25%
Fat
18.9g
Med
27%
Saturates
5.6g
Med
28%
Sugars
9.5g
Low
11%
Salt
0.4g
Low
6%
1
of your 5-a-day
of your reference intake.
Typical energy values per 100g:
605kj/145kcal

Ingredients

1 small onion, peeled and finely chopped

1 garlic clove, crushed

500g Napolina Passata

4 tsp olive oil

2 level tsp dried oregano

513g pack Asda Butcher's Selection Lean Pork Mince

25g fresh breadcrumbs

1 egg yolk

1 level tsp dried oregano

200g Asda Chosen by you Spaghetti

Fresh basil, to serve

Method

1
Cook the onion in 2 tsp olive oil until soft. Add the garlic and cook for 1 minute. Remove a quarter of the mixture and set aside.
2
Add the passata, sugar and 1 level tsp oregano to the pan. Season and bring to the boil. Partially cover and simmer for 10 minutes.
3
Put the reserved onion mixture in a bowl with a the pork mince, breadcrumbs and egg yolk. Add 1 level tsp dried oregano. Season, then mix and shape into 12 meatballs.
4
Heat 2 tsp olive oil in a pan and fry the meatballs until brown. Add to the sauce, cover and simmer for 10 minutes.
5
Cook the spaghetti according to packet instructions. Serve with the meatballs, sprinkled with fresh basil.