

Plant-based meatballs sit with linguine in a tomato marinara sauce, all in a chilled-style frozen meal format. Sauce leans on tomato, onion and herbs, while the meatballs bring the usual GRO plant-based texture rather than anything meat-based. Co-op's GRO range covers its meat-free ready meals and this one sits in the pasta section, alongside other sauce-and-grain combinations. It's the kind of tray meal you heat from frozen until piping hot, then stir through before serving. Plant-based meatballs hold their shape reasonably well through reheating, keeping a firmer bite than the soft linguine around them. Marinara is one of the simpler Italian sauces, built from tomato, garlic and basil, and it coats the pasta without drowning it, letting the meatballs stay as the main feature.

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