From Bibby with love SPOIL YOUR FAMILY WITH WHOLESOME, DELICIOUS MEALS AND TREATS

parmesan meatballs with sundried tomato sauce

Serves 4

This, to me, is what comfort food looks like. Although spaghetti and meatballs aren’t strictly an Italian idea, but rather the invention of early 20th-century Italian immigrants in New York, they’re still a classic. Serve them with buttered bruschetta or pasta.

FOR THE MEATBALLS

500g free-range lean beef mince
125ml fresh brown breadcrumbs
60ml Parmesan cheese, grated
1 egg zest of half a lemon
5ml dried oregano
3.75ml fine salt freshly ground black pepper

FOR THE SUNDRIED TOMATO SAUCE

15ml olive oil1 large brown onion, finely diced1 garlic clove, minced3-4 sundried tomatoes (preserved in oil), mushed1 x quantity Napoletana sauce 180ml tomato passatasalt and freshly