Spaghetti with Spicy Sausage Balls
This quick and easy meal is perfect for busy weeknights. Recipe includes spaghetti with spicy sausage balls, onion, garlic, crushed tomatoes, oregano, salt and pepper.
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp sunflower oil
- 1 onion chopped
- 2 cloves garlic finely chopped
- 1 red chilli deseeded and finely chopped
- 2 tbsp sweet pickle
- 3 tbsp fresh white breadcrumbs
- 1 oz pack pork sausage meat
- 1 oz can chopped tomatoes with herbs
- 10 floz apple juice
- 2 tbsp tomato purée
- 10 1/2 oz spaghetti
- chopped fresh parsley optional
Instructions
- Heat the oil in a frying pan and add the onion, garlic and chilli. Fry over a medium heat, stirring, until the onion has softened.
- Remove from the heat and tip into a large mixing bowl, adding the sweet pickle, breadcrumbs and sausage meat With clean hands, mash the mixture together
- Tear off into walnut-sized lumps and shape into roughly 20 balls between the palms of your hands.
- Heat a large frying pan, add the balls (they don't need any extra oil) and cook, stirring, over a high heat to seal all over Reduce
- the heat, then add the chopped tomatoes, apple juice and tomato puree. Simmer gently, stirring occasionally, for 20 minutes, until the sausage balls are cooked through.
- Meanwhile, bring a pan of salted water to the boil and cook the pasta according to the packet instructions Drain well, pile into pasta bowls and top with the sausage balls
Calories: 422 kcal
Carbohydrates: 76 g
Protein: 13 g
Fat: 7g
Saturated Fat: 1 g
Trans Fat: 1 g
Cholesterol: 5 mg
Sodium: 155 mg
Potassium: 419 mg
Fiber: 4 g
Sugar: 13 g
Vitamin A: 226 IU
Vitamin C: 21 mg
Calcium: 55 mg
Iron: 2 mg