This recipe serves four and is from Ida Colangelo of Ida’s Alterations.

Ingredients

• 500g minced pork meat
• 1 ¼ cups Parmesan cheese
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup bread crumbs
• (dried) parsley chopped
• 3 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
• 1 cup oil
• 1 onion
• 2 cans crushed tomatoes
• 3 tbsp tomato paste
• salt and pepper to season

Method

Meatballs
Mix all the ingredients together really well.
Roll meat in your hands to make a ball the size of a walnut.

Sauce
Put one cup of oil in a pot with chopped onion.
Fry until onion is brown and add 2 cans of crushed tomatoes.
When this boils, add the meatballs.
Simmer until sauce has reduced.
Add enough salt to taste.
Add 3 tablespoons of tomato paste and simmer for a few more minutes until ready.

Great served with pasta, rice or bread.