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Meatballs with gravy

About the recipe

Nothing is better than a regular meatball with gravy. Delicious with dinner, but also delicious on a sandwich or roll!

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Servings:

6 balls

Region:

Europe

Kitchen:

Dutch

Working hours:

50 min

Total preparation:

60 min

Course/dish:

-

M, f, v or v

Meat

Material:

-

Season:

-

Complexity:

Simple

Ingredients and supplies

For the meatballs:

  • 1 pound ground beef (half and half is fine)
  • 1 large onion or 2 small ones
  • 3-4 cloves of garlic
  • 1 egg
  • 50 g breadcrumbs
  • 0.5 tsp nutmeg
  • 1 tsp pepper
  • 2 tsp salt (or to taste)
  • some oil/butter for frying

Optional: 2 tsp thyme, 1 tsp cayenne pepper

For Meatball Gravy:

  • 1 large or 2 small onions
  • 1 tbsp flour
  • 1 stock cube or a dash of stock
  • pepper to taste
  • 1.5 tea glasses of water

Prep-work

Finely chop the onion.

Press the garlic.

Preparation

  • Mix the onion with the minced meat, egg, pressed garlic, breadcrumbs, nutmeg, pepper, salt, thyme and cayenne pepper in a bowl.
  • Roll into six to eight balls.
  • Heat a frying pan with oil/butter.
  • Fry the meatballs over medium heat.
  • Turn regularly so that they brown nicely, this takes time.

If you put the heat on too high, your meatballs may burst/burn.

(Suggestion: go do something else in the kitchen, for example peel potatoes or clean vegetables)

  • When the meatballs are brown enough, you can remove them from the pan and start making the gravy.

Meatball gravy:

  • Chop the onion
  • Take out the meatballs.
  • Fry the chopped onions in the remaining baking fat until lightly brown (low heat).
  • After about seven minutes, add 1 tablespoon of flour and fry.
  • After a minute or so add water, pepper and stock.
  • Let it boil for a while.

Place the meatballs in the gravy and cook for another 10 minutes.

KPK

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24 februari 2018

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