Recipe: Delicious Slow cooked Pork Meatball Pasta bake

Slow cooked Pork Meatball Pasta bake.

You can have Slow cooked Pork Meatball Pasta bake using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Slow cooked Pork Meatball Pasta bake

1. It's 260 g of sausage meat (approx. 4 thick good quality sausages).
2. You need 15 g of dried porcini mushrooms.
3. You need 130 g of cherry tomatoes.
4. Prepare 1 of medium pepper.
5. You need 15 g of ginger.
6. Prepare 1 of chicken stock cube.
7. Prepare 1 of medium celery.
8. It's 3 cloves of garlic.
9. It's 1 tsp of fennel seeds.
10. You need 2 tbsp of soy sauce.
11. You need 1 of medium courgette.
12. Prepare 125 g of wholewheat fusilli pasta.
13. Prepare 40 g of mature cheddar cheese.

Slow cooked Pork Meatball Pasta bake instructions

1. 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..
2. 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..
3. 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..
4. Top the vegetables with the meatballs and pour over the stock you made first (avoid tipping in any of the mushrooms)..
5. Place on the lid and cook on low for 7 hours..
6. Pre heat an oven to 180°C.
7. 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..
8. 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..
9. Place in the oven for 20-25mins or until the cheese is fully melted and the meatballs are browned..