Nigella Lawson served up tasty black pudding meatballs with porridge oats in tomato sauce on Nigella’s Cook, Eat, Repeat.

The ingredients are: 500g minced beef (not low fat), 250g black pudding, 2 fat garlic cloves, grated, 3 tbsp finely chopped parsley, plus extra to serve, 2 tbsp finely chopped chives, plus extra to serve. 1 tsp dried thyme, 2 tsp sea salt flakes (or 1 tsp fine sea salt), a very good grinding pepper, ¼ tsp dried chilli flakes, 2 tbsp porridge oats (not jumbo) and 2 large free-range eggs, at room temperature.

For the tomato sauce: 45g beef dripping or 3 tbsp olive oil, 2 onions, roughly chopped, 1 tsp dried thyme, 3 tbsp finely chopped flat-leaf parsley, 2 fat garlic cloves, grated, 2 x 400g tins chopped tomatoes, 1 tbsp tomato puree, 2 tsp Worcestershire sauce and 2 tsp sea salt flakes (or 1 tsp fine sea salt).

See recipes by Nigella in her book titled : Cook, Eat, Repeat: Ingredients, recipes and stories. available from Amazon now.