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🍝 Spaghetti with Veal Meatballs and Zucchini

880 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Wash the zucchini thoroughly and cut off the hard ends. Grate the vegetable coarsely.
  2. 2. Halve the onion, peel it, and cut it into fine cubes.
  3. 3. Wash the parsley, shake it dry, and pick the leaves off the stems. Chop the leaves finely.
  4. 4. Wash the lemon under hot water. Grate about one teaspoon of the zest finely.
  5. 5. Put the veal mince, the onion cubes, the parsley, and half of the lemon zest into a bowl.
  6. 6. Mix the ingredients thoroughly with your hands.
  7. 7. Season the mixture with salt and pepper.
  8. 8. Shape the mixture into small balls, about the size of a walnut.
  9. 9. Fill about five liters of water into a pot, salt it, and bring it to a boil with a lid on.
  10. 10. Put the spaghetti into the boiling salted water.
  11. 11. Cook the pasta for about nine minutes until it is al dente (firm to the bite).
  12. 12. Drain the spaghetti in a colander.
  13. 13. Save about 200 milliliters of the pasta cooking water.
  14. 14. Heat two tablespoons of oil in a frying pan over high heat.
  15. 15. Fry the meatballs for about five minutes until golden brown on all sides.
  16. 16. Take the meatballs out of the pan and place them on a plate.
  17. 17. Add another tablespoon of oil to the same pan and heat it over high heat.
  18. 18. Fry the grated zucchini for about three minutes.
  19. 19. Season the zucchini with salt, pepper, pasta seasoning, and the remaining lemon zest.
  20. 20. Deglaze the pan with the 200 milliliters of pasta cooking water.
  21. 21. Stir the crème fraîche into the sauce.
  22. 22. Put the meatballs back into the pan.
  23. 23. Let the sauce simmer gently until the balls are cooked through.
  24. 24. Add the spaghetti to the pan with the sauce.
  25. 25. Mix everything well so that the pasta is coated with the sauce.
  26. 26. Taste the pasta and adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper.
  27. 27. Serve the pasta with the meatballs on plates.
  28. 28. Sprinkle the dish with grated Parmesan and serve it hot.

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