PASTA WITH MEAT BALLS "MERIDIONALE"

For 4 people.

Ingredients:

800 g rigatoni

200 g minced meat

500 g cherry tomatoes

4 onions

6 garlic cloves

4 sprigs of thyme, 4 of rosemary and a few bay leaves

40 g basil sugar

100 g black olives

two eggplant

parmesan cheese

herbs from Provence

Prepare the tomato sauce:

Chop an onion and a clove of garlic.

Brown them in olive oil, with thyme, bay leaf and rosemary.

Add sugar, let caramelize.

Add the halved cherry tomatoes.

Salt and pepper.

Cook over low heat. Mix the tomato sauce.

Then

Cut the eggplant into small cubes, then brown them in olive oil with a clove of garlic, thyme and rosemary.

Season with salt and pepper.

Then, once the preparation is colored, put in the oven for 20 minutes at 180 ° C.

Prepare the beef balls:

In a bowl, mix the ground beef with a clove of minced garlic, Provence herbs, chopped onion.

Salt and pepper.

Make medium-sized dumplings, then flour them.

Brown them in a pan with a drizzle of olive oil and finish cooking in the oven at 180 degrees.

For sure your little family will enjoy !