Vickys Halloween Spaghetti & Eyeballs (Meatballs) GF DF EF DF NF

Vicky@Jacks Free-From Cookbook
Vicky@Jacks Free-From Cookbook @allergyfriendlycook
Scotland

There are so many things you can do with this kind of recipe. You can mould all sorts of shapes - how about a rat or a creepy severed foot? Served with the sauce underneath and features made from other ingredients, your creepy Halloween meal is sorted!

Vickys Halloween Spaghetti & Eyeballs (Meatballs) GF DF EF DF NF

There are so many things you can do with this kind of recipe. You can mould all sorts of shapes - how about a rat or a creepy severed foot? Served with the sauce underneath and features made from other ingredients, your creepy Halloween meal is sorted!

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Ingredients

2 hours
6 servings
  1. Sauce
  2. 120 gramschopped onion
  3. 5 clovechopped garlic
  4. 60 mlolive oil
  5. 800 gramscan plum tomatoes in juice *
  6. 180 gramstomato puree / paste *
  7. 3 tspsalt
  8. 1 tspsugar
  9. 1bay leaf
  10. 3/4 tspdried basil
  11. 1/2 tsppepper
  12. Meatballs/Eyeballs
  13. 1onion, finely chopped
  14. 4 clovegarlic, finely chopped
  15. 1medium carrot, grated
  16. 900 gramspork mince or pork/beef mix
  17. 160 gramstomato sauce or my tomato-free version from my profile
  18. 1 tbspwarmed treacle / molasses
  19. 1 tbspbalsamic vinegar
  20. 1 handfulfinely chopped parsley
  21. 60 gramsdried gluten-free breadcrumbs
  22. 1 tspitalian seasoning
  23. 1 tspsalt
  24. some olives and mustard
  25. 450 gramsgluten-free spaghetti or a gluten-free sub roll per person

Cooking Instructions

2 hours
  1. 1

    If making the sauce, start this first, it takes a while

  2. 2

    Fry off the onion & garlic in the oil gently until the onion is translucent

  3. 3
  4. 4

    Add the tomato puree, basil and pepper then simmer a further 30 minutes until done

  5. 5

    For the meatballs, preheat the oven to gas 4 / 180C / 350°F and line a baking tray with foil

  6. 6

    Mix all the ingredients together in a large bowl. Add more breadcrumbs if too wet or a splash of dairy-free milk if too dry but don't overmix or they'll be dense

  7. 7

    Rub a little oil on your hands then start forming balls with the mixture and place on the baking tray

  8. 8

    You should get 24 balls. Bake for 30 minutes. If you make larger or smaller sized balls you'll need to adjust the cooking time

  9. 9

    Put your pan of spaghetti on to cook to time with the meatballs coming out of the oven - if you're serving with spaghetti....

  10. 10

    To turn the meatballs into eyeballs either cut a piece of meatball out and stick a half olive in the hole. Add some mustard for a creepy pupil.....

  11. 11

    ...or use slices of olive and stick on with mustard...

  12. 12

    Spoon the sauce over the spaghetti/sub roll and place some eyeballs on top

  13. 13

    The sub looks really cool when you put the top back on!

  14. 14

    If you can't tolerate tomatoes, please look up my Tomato-Free Tomato Sauce recipe from my profile and sub the same weight of sauce for the tomato ketchup /paste in the ingredients list

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