Meatballs & Black Beans in a Spicy Tomato Sauce

This recipe uses my meatballs recipe that I posted earlier. The sauce can be made in the time the meatballs are cooking which is great.

While the meatballs are cooking in the oven I make a spicy tomato sauce using chipotle paste and add tinned black beans. You could use dried black beans but I usually find I don’t have the time to soak and cook them before making this recipe. I guess it requires a little too much forward planning for me 🙂

The chipotle paste adds a smokey spicy flavour without being too over powering or hot. Use whatever chipotle paste you can get your hands on.

Once the meatballs are cooked I add them to the pot and simmer for a further 10 minutes to bring the flavours together.

I serve them with rice.

This sauce is great for freezing either combined with the meatballs or separately.

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Meatballs & Black Beans in a Spicy Tomato Sauce

Prep Time 30 minutes

Cook Time 35 minutes

Servings 4 people

Ingredients

• 1 tsp rapeseed oil
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 tin plum tomatoes
• 1 tin black beans
• 1 tsp chipotle paste
• 20 meatballs (from my meatballs recipe)
• Salt
• Pepper

Instructions

• Heat the rapeseed oil in a large pan.
  
• Slice the garlic thinly and fry for 1-2 mins being careful not to burn it.
  
• Add the tin of tomatoes. If you or your family don't like chunky tomato pieces you can blitz the tomatoes or even use passata.
  
• Add the chipotle paste and the black beans. You can add more or less chipotle paste depending on your spice/heat tolerance levels.
  
• Fill the tomato tin 1/2 way with water and add.
  
• Bring to the boil and then simmer. Add more water as needed.
• When the meatballs have cooked add them to the sauce and cook for a further 10 minutes.
  
• Season with salt and pepper before serving.
  
• Serve with rice.