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Speedy meatball minestrone

This one-pan meatball minestrone is hearty and nutritious and is ready in only twenty minutes.

  • Hands-on time: 5 mins
  • Time to make: 20 mins
  • Serving: 2 people
Ratings: 4.8
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 4 lean lamb sausages (removed from case, rolled into meatballs) or 10–12 store-bought
  • lamb meatballs
  • 400g can no-added-salt chopped tomatoes
  • 1¹⁄³ cups passata
  • 1 cup reduced-salt chicken stock
  • 1 clove garlic, crushed
  • ½ cup casarecce chickpea pasta
  • 125g can red kidney beans, rinsed, drained
  • 1 cup frozen corn, pea and capsicum mixture, thawed
  • 2 tablespoons chopped
  • flat-leaf parsley
  • 1 teaspoon lemon zest
  • 1 tablespoon shredded parmesan
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 Spray a medium saucepan with olive oil, set over medium-high heat. Cook the meatballs, stirring, for 5 minutes, or until browned. Transfer to a plate.

    2 Add the canned tomatoes, the passata, stock and garlic to pan. Bring to the boil. Add the pasta. Cook for 5 minutes.

    3 Return meatballs to pan along with the kidney beans and frozen vegetables. Reduce the heat to medium, simmer for 5–10 minutes, or until pasta is just tender and the meatballs cooked through. Season the soup with cracked black pepper.

    4 Ladle soup into two serving bowls. Serve topped with parsley, lemon zest and parmesan.

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