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Meatballs in tomato sauce
Beef meatballs with bread, Parmesan and parsley, slowly cooked in tomato sauce: the mix and the sauce are made in the Thermomix.
Published on November 12, 2026
Ingredients
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- Ground beef, 80% lean 500 g
- White bread 80 g stale bread crumb
- Whole egg, fresh 50 g 1 egg
- Parmesan, hard 40 g grated
- Parsley, fresh 10 g
- Fresh garlic 5 g
- Fine salt 6 g
- Black pepper, ground 1 g
- Tomato passata 700 g
- Fresh onion 80 g
- Extra virgin olive oil 30 g
- Water 300 g to soak the bread and thin the sauce
- Fresh basil 5 g
Steps
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1 Chop the bread, parsley, garlic and Parmesan.
15 sec · speed 7
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2 Add the meat, egg, salt and pepper and mix.
30 sec · speed 4 · reverse
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3 Remove the mix and shape the meatballs with damp hands.
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4 Chop the onion in the bowl.
5 sec · speed 5
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5 Add the oil and saute the onion.
3 min · 100 °C · speed 1 · reverse
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6 Add the tomato passata, water and basil and bring to the boil.
10 min · 100 °C · speed 1 · reverse
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7 Add the meatballs and cook them in the sauce at speed 1, reverse.
20 min · 100 °C · speed 1 · reverse
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8 Serve with the sauce and a few basil leaves.
Nutrition
| Per serving | Per 100 g | |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 561 kcal | 173 kcal |
| Protein | 31.6 g | 9.7 g |
| Carbohydrate | 22.1 g | 6.8 g |
| Sugars | 8.1 g | 2.5 g |
| Fat | 37.4 g | 11.5 g |
| of which saturates | 12.5 g | 3.9 g |
| Fibre | 3.5 g | 1.1 g |
| Salt | 2.82 g | 0.87 g |
Values calculated from the ingredients using food composition tables. They do not replace professional advice. Always check labels for allergens.
Recipe data: APIpoi.