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Showing posts with label Mario. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mario. Show all posts

Monday, 20 October 2014

Spaghetti Meatballs Recipe

A few weeks ago, we shared head chef Mario's patented recipe for the perfect tomato pasta sauce and, I think it's about time, we shared a pasta dish which uses his fantastic sauce.



Today, we're sharing our recipe for spaghetti meatballs. This is an excellent dish for so many reasons. Firstly, children universally seem to adore it. Secondly, cost - using a mixture of pork and beef mince really lowers the price. Thirdly, this recipe can be halved, doubled, tripled, quadrupled...super easily. Together with the low price ingredients, you can feed hungry hoards relatively inexpensively.

Firstly, you'll need to whip up a batch of Mario's tomato sauce. This stuff is sublime - cooking for such a long time ensures tomato perfection. But we know you're busy people, and time is often of the essence, so if you can't be bothered to make the tomato sauce, just buy bottled passata, just don't tell us!

To make enough spaghetti meatballs to feed 10 hungry people, you'll need the following:

1Kg pork mince
1Kg beef mince
1/2 bunch parsley, finely chopped
1 large red onion, chopped
3 small eggs or 2 large ones
100g bread crumbs
1Kg spaghetti
Olive oil
Parmesan and fresh parsley to serve
salt and pepper

Monday, 22 September 2014

Turning the spot light on...Mario

Today, I interviewed our head chef, Mario.


Mario is a busy man; he is both the manager and head chef at Pizzeria Oregano,

Originally from Portugal, he moved to London 24 years ago! Mario is a self taught man. He started from the very bottom (as a kitchen porter) to his lofty position as a head chef here at Pizzeria Oregano.