Who says meatballs always have to be served with spaghetti? This recipe teams meatballs with crushed new potatoes for a fresh take on your usual midweek tea. This meal is reasonably quick to prepare, but if you're in even more of a hurry you could always use shop-bought sauce or meatballs.
Ingredients
For the meatballs:
- 250g minced pork
- 75g dried white breadcrumbs
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 1 egg
- 1 garlic clove, peeled and crushed
- 1-2tbsp freshly chopped sage
For the sauce:
- 400g can chopped tomatoes
- 1 onion, peeled and chopped
- 100ml red wine
- 200g button mushrooms, sliced
- 1tsp caster sugar
- 150ml vegetable or ham stock
For the crushed potatoes:
- 500-750g new potatoes
- 1-2tbsp fat-free fromage frais
- Basil leaves, for garnish
WEIGHT CONVERTER
Method
- Set the oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas 6.
- To make the meatballs, tip all the ingredients into a bowl and mix together well, seasoning with salt and pepper. Divide the mixture into 9-12 and shape into balls and place in an ovenproof dish.
- To make the sauce, pour the canned tomatoes into a saucepan and add the onion. Bring to the boil and simmer for 5 mins. Add the remaining ingredients to the pan, bring to the boil and simmer for a further 4-5 mins.
- Pour the sauce over the meatballs and cover the dish. Bake in the oven for 20 mins, then uncover the dish, stir the meatballs and cook, uncovered, for a further 10-15 mins, or until the meatballs are cooked through.
- Bring the new potatoes to the boil in water and cook for about 15 mins, until they are just tender. Drain well and crush lightly. Stir in the fromage frais. Season with salt and pepper.
- Spoon some potato on to plates and top the meatballs. Garnish with basil leaves before serving.
Top Tip for making Meatballs with crushed new potatoes
The meatballs in sauce can be packed into a suitable container and frozen once cold. Allow to defrost before reheating. The potato isn’t suitable for freezing.
Sue McMahon is a former Food and Recipes Writer at GoodTo and Cooking Editor at Woman's Weekly. Her primary passion is cakes and Sue regularly travels the world teaching cake decorating. Her biggest achievement to date was winning the Prix d’honneur at La Salon Culinaire International de Londres beating over 1,200 other entries.
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