Meatballs with Tomato Filling on Tomato Sauce

Prep: 25min
| Servings: 4 | Cook: 35min
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Meatballs with tomato filling on tomato sauce is a recipe with fresh ingredients from the fruit-vegetable category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!

Ingredients

  • 400 g mixed ground meat
  • 1 egg
  • 100 g veal mince
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • 250 g date tomatoes (or cherry tomatoes)
  • clarified butter (for frying)
  • 1 small onion
  • 2 Garlic cloves
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 50 g ripe tomatoes
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • 350 g thin ribbon pasta

Instructions

  1. 1.

    Preheat the oven to 100°C.

  2. 2.

    Mix the ground meat with the egg and veal mince in a bowl. Season with salt and pepper. Form into 3 cm thick lumps, divide into pieces, flatten each piece, place a tomato on top, wrap with the meat dough. Brown all sides in clarified butter over medium heat. Transfer to a baking dish and keep warm at 100°C in the oven.

  3. 3.

    Peel the onion and garlic, finely chop both. Heat oil and sauté the onion mixture. Boil tomatoes as desired, peel, then dice small. Add to the onion mix with broth and bring to a boil. Simmer for 3-5 minutes, season with salt and pepper. Meanwhile cook pasta in plenty of salted water until al dente, drain. Plate pasta with tomato sauce and meatballs and serve.