Sausage Meatball & Tomato Sauce With Fresh Orecchiette
Serve up meatballs in minuti like a true Neapolitan nonna. Hand roll your juicy sausage ‘polpette’, braise them in a rich, herby tomato sauce and toss everything together with fresh orecchiette. Che buono!
You supply: salt, olive oil, flour, water. The figures below are for the dish cooked as instructed, so they count these rather than what arrives in the box.
How it compares
More than 30% of the 576 meals we track.
30th percentileAround the middle of the 576 meals we track.
57th percentileThis brand doesn’t publish it, so the meal sits outside this comparison.
Worth knowing
- Salt 2.2g — 37% of an adult's 6g daily maximum, in one meal.
- Saturates 8.62g — 43% of the 20g daily reference intake.
- Fibre 5.86g — 20% of the 30g daily recommendation.
- Contains eggs, gluten, milk, mustard, soya and sulphites, as declared by Gousto.
Reference intakes are published UK adult figures — a 6g daily maximum for salt, 20g for saturates and a 30g recommendation for fibre. We divide; we don’t score.
Full nutrition — as published by Gousto, per 240.75g portion and per 100g
| Nutrient | Per Serving (240.75g) | Per 100g |
|---|---|---|
| Energy / Calories | 599 kcal | 248.8 kcal |
| Protein | 28.67 g | 11.9 g |
| Carbohydrates | 79.25 g | 32.9 g |
| of which sugars | 4.47 g | 1.9 g |
| Fat | 18.6 g | 7.7 g |
| of which saturates | 8.62 g | 3.6 g |
| Dietary Fibre | 5.86 g | 2.4 g |
| Salt | 2.2 g | 0.9 g |
| Sodium equivalent | Not published | — |
A blank means Gousto doesn’t publish it — we never fill the gap with a zero or an estimate.
Ingredients and allergens — 11 listed, in order
Grated Italian hard cheese (30g), Intense chicken stock mix (5.5g), Chicken stock mix (5.5g) x0, Dried oregano (1tsp), Jolly Hog pork sausagemeat (150g), Tomato paste (32g), Garlic clove, Dried basil (1tsp), Parsley (5g), Fresh orecchiette (250g), Tomato paste (16g) x0
Contains (brand-declared)
May contain traces
No separate trace allergens publishedSuitable for
Nothing declaredThe maths — protein density, cost per 100 calories and six more
Worked out from the figures the brand publishes. Click any of them to see the sum and the inputs used.
Where each number came from — 10 fields, traced to Gousto
Where each number came from
Every figure on this page was read from Gousto's own published pages. Below is the text we read, and where on their site we read it.
| Field | What their page said | What we stored | How we read it | Certainty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| calories_kcal | 599kcal | 599 kcal | public api | Read as published |
| protein_g | 28666mg | 28.67 mg | public api | Read as published |
| carbs_g | 79248mg | 79.25 mg | public api | Read as published |
| fat_g | 18597mg | 18.6 mg | public api | Read as published |
| saturated_fat_g | 8622mg | 8.62 mg | public api | Read as published |
| sugars_g | 4468mg | 4.47 mg | public api | Read as published |
| fibre_g | 5856mg | 5.86 mg | public api | Read as published |
| salt_g | 2197mg | 2.2 mg | public api | Read as published |
| serving_weight_g | 240750mg | 240.75 mg | public api | Read as published |
| ingredient_list_text | Grated Italian hard cheese (30g), Intense chicken stock mix (5.5g), Chicken stock mix (5.5g) x0, Dried oregano (1tsp), Jolly Hog pork sausagemeat (150g), Tomato paste (32g), Garlic clove, Dried basil (1tsp), Parsley (5g), Fresh orecchiette (250g), Tomato paste (16g) x0 | Grated Italian hard cheese (30g), Intense chicken stock mix (5.5g), Chicken stock mix (5.5g) x0, Dried oregano (1tsp), Jolly Hog pork sausagemeat (150g), Tomato paste (32g), Garlic clove, Dried basil (1tsp), Parsley (5g), Fresh orecchiette (250g), Tomato paste (16g) x0 | public api | Read as published |
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