John Whaite served up a tasty one pot meatballs with pasta dish on Steph’s Packed Lunch.

The ingredients for the meatballs are: 2 Cumberland sausages, 200g high-fat minced beef, 1 tsp fennel seeds, ½ tsp ground pepper and ¼ tsp fine salt.

For the pasta: 2tbsp olive oil, 1 small onion, very finely diced, 1 fat garlic clove, minced, 1 small red pepper, finely diced, 100g chestnut mushrooms, finely sliced, 100ml red wine/water, 1tbsp tomato puree, 300g spaghetti, snapped in half, 700ml boiling water, 3tbsp red pesto, 60g Parmesan cheese, finely grated and Small handful fresh basil, roughly chopped.

See recipes by John in his book titled: Comfort: Food to soothe the soul available from Amazon now.