Anna Haugh and Bundee Aki served up tasty meatballs in tomato sauce with homemade pasta on Anna Haugh’s Big Irish Food Tour.

The ingredients for the pasta are: 400g semolina flour, plus extra for rolling out, 5g fine salt, 4 medium free-range eggs, whisked and 1 tbsp olive oil.

For the meatballs: 600g whole beef shin on the bone, 6 tbsp olive oil, 3 carrots, peeled and chopped, 2 celery sticks, chopped, 2 sprigs fresh thyme, leaves removed and chopped, 2 sprigs fresh oregano, leaves removed and chopped, 800g cherry vine tomatoes, halved, 1 onion, chopped, 500ml passata, pinch caster sugar, 1 banana shallot, chopped, 110ml full-fat milk, 45g porridge oats, 400g beef mince, 1 medium free-range egg, beaten, 50g gouda, grated, 1 lemon, zest only, salt and freshly ground black pepper.

To serve: 2 tbsp fresh oregano leaves and 100g gouda, grated.

See recipes by Anna in her book titled: Cooking with Anna: Modern home cooking with Irish heart available from Amazon now.