Oven Baked Meatballs with Creamy Mash and Lemon Beans
Classic melt in your mouth meatballs the whole family will love.
Ingredients
Meatballs
- 500 g beef mince
- 2 slices bread – crusts removed and diced
- ¼ cup milk
- ¼ onion -grated or very finely diced
- 1 egg
- 2 tbsp parsley – finely chopped
- 2 garlic cloves – crushed
- ¼ cup parmesan – finely grated
- salt and pepper
Tomato Sugo
- 2 tinned tomatoes – 400g chopped
- ¾ onion
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- salt and pepper
Creamy Mash
- 600 g potato – peeled and cut into 2.5cm cubes
- ½ cup milk -warm
- 1 tbsp butter
- salt
Lemon Beans
- 300 g green beans – trimmed
- 1 tsp olive oil
- ½ lemon – zested and juiced
- salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C
- In an oven proof casserole dish add 2tbsp olive oil and onion for the sugo. Pop in oven for 10 minutes. Remove and add the tomatoes and season with salt and pepper. Pop back in the oven to heat through.
- Meatballs – Pop the bread an milk in a medium sized bowl and let the milk soak in (about a minute). Add the mince, onion, egg, garlic, parsley, parmesan and season with salt and pepper. Gently combine all the ingredients together with your hands.Roll into 3 meatballs per serve. The quickest way to do this is to divide into serving sizes and then split into 3. Gently place the meatballs into the warmed sugo and return to the oven for 30 minutes.
- Mash – Add potatoes,1tsp and water to cover to a saucapan and bring to the boil. Turn the heat down to a gentle boil and cook for 15 minutes. Drain potatoes and return to the pan. Ensure there is no water left. Add the milk, butter and season with salt. Mash till creamy.
- Beans – Combine the zest, juice and olive oil in a bowl. Cook the beans in a pan of salted boiling water for 2-3 minutes, until tender. Drain and then toss with the dressing. Season with salt and pepper.
- Once the meatballs are cooked. Remove from the oven and sprinkle with extra parsley and parmesan. Serve with creamy mash and lemon beans.
Tips and Variations
Vegetarian – I haven’t tried a vegetarian version of these yet (but I am working on it). The vegetarian “mince” option would work.
Gluten Free – Use gluten free bread.
Low Carb – Replace the potatoes with cauliflower. You will only need half the about of milk and don’t cut the cauliflower up as small.
Meal Prep – On Sunday – make the meatballs and trim the beans.
Nutrition
Calories: 600kcal | Carbohydrates: 60g | Protein: 42g | Fat: 23g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 11g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 135mg | Sodium: 610mg | Potassium: 2012mg | Fiber: 11g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 1415IU | Vitamin C: 70mg | Calcium: 301mg | Iron: 9mg
