Healthy winter recipe for 4 - 5 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has rapeseed oil, onion, carrot, celery stick, garlic clove, passata, parsley, turkey, porridge, paprika, garlic clove and oil.
Slow cooker meatballs
Course: Healthy winter
Servings
4 - 5
servings
Prep time
20 mins
Ingredients
- Garlic Clove: 2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
- Onion: 1 onion, finely chopped
- Carrot: 2 carrots, finely diced
- Parsley: 2 tbsp chopped parsley
- Paprika: pinch paprika
- Oil: spray of oil
- Celery Stick: 2 celery sticks, finely diced
- Passata: 500g carton tomato passata
- Rapeseed Oil: 1 tbsp rapeseed oil
- Turkey: 400g lean mince turkey
- Porridge: 4 tbsp porridge oats
Directions
- Heat theslow cookerif necessary. Heat the oil in anon-stick frying panand add the onion, carrots, celery and garlic and fry gently for a minute. Pour in the passata, add the parsley and stir, then transfer the lot to the slow cooker.
- To make the meatballs, tip the mince into a large bowl. Add the oats, paprika, garlic and plenty of black pepper, and mix everything together with your hands. Divide the mixture into 20 lumps about the size of a walnut and roll each piece into a meatball. Spray or run a non-stick pan with a little oil and gently cook the meatballs until they start to brown. Add them to the tomato base and cook on Low for 5 hours. Serve over rice or pasta if you like, or with a green salad.
