Full of extra hidden veg to hide from your fussy kids! It’s a delicious full flavoured sauce that slightly thickens as it cooks due to the rice in the meatballs. A family favourite and so quick and easy to make.
Submitted by Kirsten Crack
Vegiful Spaghetti and Meatballs
Full of extra hidden veg to hide from your fussy kids! It’s a delicious full flavoured sauce that slightly thickens as it cooks due to the rice in the meatballs. A family favourite and so quick and easy to make.
Ingredients
Meatballs
- 500gm beef mince
- 1 med. grated zucchini
- 1 med. grated carrot
- 3 heaped Tbs uncooked rice
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp mixed herbs
- 1 tsp salt
Sauce
- 1 tin crushed tomatoes
- 1 tin condensed tomato soup
- 1 small onion very finely diced
- 1/4 cup bbq sauce
- 2 level tsp English or American Mustard
- 1 Tbs Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tsp powdered beef stock
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- Small handful of fresh basil or 1 tsp of dried herb of choice.
Instructions
- Mix together meatball ingredients in a bowl with your hands very well until the protein of the meat changes and goes more paste like.
- Roll into balls and place in slow cooker.
- Mix the sauce ingredients all together in the bowl you used for your meatballs to save dishes, then pour over meatballs.
- Cook on high 4 hours, low for 6.
- Resist stirring meatballs until 1/2 hour before serving.
- Serve with favourite pasta.
Notes
- Full of extra hidden veg to hide from your fussy kids! It’s a delicious full flavoured sauce that slightly thickens as it cooks due to the rice in the meatballs. A family favourite and so quick and easy to make.
- Remember to really work that meatball mix. If you think it’s well mixed, mix a bit more! It ensures your meatballs don’t fall apart during cooking. And resist stirring till the last half hour of cooking.
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This was so easy to make and very tasty. I decided to serve with extra vegetables instead of spaghetti but otherwise I followed the recipe as above. Enjoyed by everyone who ate it. Will become a regular dish in my household 🙂
Made this last night and the whole family thought it was delicious! Thank you ?
Can you double the ingredients? If so , would cooking time need to be adjusted?
Hi David
I know we’ve answered this directly already but for anyone else who may want this answer too – yes you could double this and the time wouldn’t really vary 🙂
However I suspect the sauce ingredients would be still plenty left as is and only doubling the meat to make more meatballs if that’s what you were wanting