Italian Meatball Pasta

I always love spaghetti meatballs. And now you can make it yourself at home! It's a very easy and cheap recipe. You should give a try! For the meatball, I use this recipe. When you live alone, this can serve you 2 days meal. Nothing beats healthy home made meal!


Basic Tomato Sauce

Ingredients:

• 1 tin Chopped tomato
• 2 cloves Garlic
• 1 medium to small Onion
• 4-6 pcs Sun dried tomato
• Salt
• Pepper
• Oregano
• Olive Oil
• Sugar
• 1 tbsp Ketchup

How-to:

1. Finely chop onion, garlic and dried tomato.
2. Over a medium heat put 2-3 tbsp of olive oil into a large pan.
3. Fry the onion and garlic until they all soft and fragrant. Then put the dried tomato into the pan.
4. Pour the tinned tomato into the pan. Mix well.
5. Refill half of the tin with water, and shake it. Make sure that you got all the tomato juice. Pour it into the pan, add ketchup and mix it well.
6. Season with salt, pepper, oregano and sugar.
7. Let it simmer for 5 minutes.
8. Put your prepared meatball into the pan. And let it simmer until the meatballs are cooked through. (15-20 minutes)

Serve: 3-4

*Tips: When you are planning to make a week ahead meal. And you want to make this. You can cook the tomato sauce and freeze it. And you can reheat the tomato sauce, put your meatball in. And Voila! a super quick pasta!

Meatball and Mashed Potato

Ingredients:

Meatball

• 500g minced Beef
• 1tbsp Ketchup
• 1tsp dried Oregano
• 1tsp Hot sauce (Tabasco, sriracha, ABC)
• 1 medium/small Egg
• 2 hand full Breadcrumbs
• Salt
• Pepper
• Butter

Mashed Potato

• 8-10 large Potatoes
• 2tsbsp Milk
• Salt
• Pepper

How-to:

Meatball

1. Put all ingredients into a large bowl. Mix with hand until all combined.
2. Form the meat into a bite-sized ball (smaller than golf ball).
3. Melt the Butter in a large pan over a low to medium heat. Put the meatball into the pan.
4. Fry until golden brown and the meatball is cooked through. (Don't forget to turn the balls!)
5. Turn off the heat, place the meatball on a plate and set aside.

Mashed Potato

1. Boil some water in a pot. Add pinch of salt.
2. Wash and peel the potatoes.
3. When the water boils, add your potatoes into the pot and let it boils.
4. Cook the potatoes until all potatoes are cooked.
5. In a colander dump all the potatoes and put it back in the pot. and mashed it until smooth.
6. Put a table spoon of butter into the pot, a splash of milk, salt and pepper to taste.
7. Mix it until all incorporated.

Heat the meatballs in a microwave. Plate the meatballs and the mashed potato on a plate. Pour the gravy and sprinkle with pepper and Voila!

Serve:4

*For the gravy, I bought the pre made gravy :D But I'll find a way to make it! Stay tune! and I'll post the recipe. 

Creamy Mushroom Pasta

Since I live in a dorm now, I have to prepare my own lunch. I finish my class at 1:15 and get home at 2. You know how hungry I am rite? And I found this recipe is the easiest, tastiest and most important the fastest. Suitable for vegetarians too. A very healthy meal to cook at your home or dorm. Give it a try!

Ingredients:

• 2 Handful Mushroom of your choice.
• 200 ml Cream
• 2 cloves Garlic
• 1 medium Onion
• 1 stalk Spring Onion
• Salt
• Pepper
• Splash Olive Oil
• Parmesan cheese for sprinkle (optional)

How-to:

1. Wash and slice mushrooms. Finely chop garlic, onion and spring onion. Set it aside.
2. In a pan splash olive oil over a medium heat. When the oil is hot, put in chopped garlic and onion. Saute until they sweat and smell nice.
3. Put in chopped mushrooms and stir until the mushroom become soft. (and smell nice too!)
4. Season with salt and paper.
5. Pour in the cream into the pan and let it simmer for 2 minutes.
6. After 2 minutes sprinkle the creamy sauce with spring onion.

Serve : 2