Tuesday 29 April 2014

Tasty meatball bake

Ingredients:
3 medium potatoes, cut in chunks
3 parsnips, cut in chunks
1/4 cup breadcrumbs
400 g lamb mince
1/3 c fresh mint, chopped
2 medium red onions, halved
1 egg
oil spray
1 cup cherry tomatoes

Method:

  1. Preheat oven to 200 C. 
  2. Place potatoes and parsnips in a pot of boiling water and cook for 8 minutes.
  3. Meanwhile, to prepare meatballs, place breadcrumbs in a bowl with mince. Finely chop half a red onion and add to mince mixture with egg and half the mint. Mix together until well blended. Shape into 12 small meatballs.
  4. Drain potatoes and parsnips. Spray a large ovenproof dish with some oil and add meatballs with potatoes, parsnips and the remaining red onion halves cut into wedges. 
  5. Spray with oil. Cook for 25 minutes, turning once halfway through cooking.
  6. Add tomatoes for the last 5 minutes of cooking time. 
  7. Serve meatballs and vegetables sprinkled with the remaining mint.
Serves 4

Notes:
You can also use beef mince and leave out the mint. 
Try adding 1/4 c finely chopped mushrooms to the meatball mixture.
Try using other vegetables - carrots, kumara, pumpkin, peppers etc. 

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