Slow cooked Pork Meatball Pasta bake. How do I make Slow Cooker Pasta Bake with Meatballs? Get your spaghetti sauce ready to pour in the crock pot. Keep alternating sauce, noodles and meatballs until you have put all of the ingredients in the crock pot.
Meatballs are combined with penne noodles, pasta sauce and cheese for the perfect weeknight casserole recipe! Serve this with a side salad and some crusty bread. Penne is the perfect shaped pasta for this saucy bake! You can have Slow cooked Pork Meatball Pasta bake using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Slow cooked Pork Meatball Pasta bake
- It's 260 g of sausage meat (approx. 4 thick good quality sausages).
- You need 15 g of dried porcini mushrooms.
- Prepare 130 g of cherry tomatoes.
- Prepare 1 of medium pepper.
- It's 15 g of ginger.
- Prepare 1 of chicken stock cube.
- Prepare 1 of medium celery.
- You need 3 cloves of garlic.
- It's 1 tsp of fennel seeds.
- Prepare 2 tbsp of soy sauce.
- Prepare 1 of medium courgette.
- Prepare 125 g of wholewheat fusilli pasta.
- You need 40 g of mature cheddar cheese.
You don't need to grease it because even super lean ground beef will render some fat while baking. It'll cook more in the oven later with the pasta bake. This is by far the easiest way to cook the meatballs because there's no oil splatter and draining on paper towels. Heat the slow cooker if necessary.
Slow cooked Pork Meatball Pasta bake step by step
- Boil a kettle. To a jug add 350ml boiled water. The dried porcini mushrooms, the chicken stock cube and the soy sauce. Mix well and put to one side..
- To a bowl and the sausage meat, fennel seeds, the ginger (peeled first) and half of the courgette (no need to peel) both grated. Mix well and separate into 4 big and juicy meatballs. Put to one side..
- Peel and grate the garlic. Grate the remaining courgette(no need to peel), roughly chop the pepper and cherry tomatoes and dice the celery. Add all of the vegetables to a slow cooker..
- Top the vegetables with the meatballs and pour over the stock you made first (avoid tipping in any of the mushrooms)..
- Place on the lid and cook on low for 7 hours..
- Pre heat an oven to 180°C.
- Once the meatballs have cooked for 7 hours. Very gently remove them and add the pasta. Give everything a good stir and then gently return the meatballs for another 15mins with the lid on..
- Gently remove the meatballs and add the pasta and the sauce to an oven proof dish. Top with the meatballs and grate over the cheese..
- Place in the oven for 20-25mins or until the cheese is fully melted and the meatballs are browned..
Heat the oil in a non-stick frying pan and add the onion, carrots, celery and garlic and fry gently for a minute. Pour in the passata, add the parsley and stir, then transfer the lot to the slow cooker. To make the meatballs, tip the mince into a large bowl. This fabulous recipe for slow-cooker spaghetti and meatballs tastes like something from a restaurant. It's perfect to serve to your family and comforting and delicious enough to serve to guests.