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Spaghetti and Meatballs Recipe

Homemade Pasta Sauce with Hidden Veggies

Your family won't even notice the hidden veggies in this delicious and flavourful pasta sauce.
Course Main
Author Kerrie @ Family Food and Travel

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp coconut oil
  • 1 medium onion chopped
  • 1.5 lbs lean ground beef
  • 1 tbsp garlic plus or garlic powder
  • 1 tbsp Worchestchire sauce
  • 1 can diced tomatoes
  • 2 carrots peeled and grated
  • 2 cups baby spinach
  • 2 basil leaves
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp pepper
  • 1 tbsp dried parsley
  • 2 jars of your favourite pasta sauce 650ml
  • 1 dash tabasco
  • 1 tsp sugar

Instructions

  1. n a skillet place coconut oil and onion and cook until transparent. Add ground beef, garlic plus, and Worchestshire sauce and cook through. Meanwhile, in Vitamix add 1 jar of pasta sauce, can of diced tomatoes, carrots, spinach, basil, salt, pepper and parsley and mix until fully combined. Add Vitamix mixture and other jar of pasta sauce to a sauce pot and simmer over medium-low heat adding onion and beef mixture. Simmer for 30 minutes or up to two hours (for maximum flavour). In last 15 minutes add Tabasco and sugar.
  2. Add meatballs to pasta sauce and simmer until warmed through.
  3. Add water to a separate saucepan and simmer on low for 15 minutes or until pasta is cooked al dente.
  4. Top pasta with sauce and a few meatballs.
  5. Finish with sprinkle of fresh grated parmesan cheese