MEATBALLS WITH GINGER SAUCE

Meatballs With Ginger Sauce image

Provided by Good Looking Cooking

Categories Meat

Time 45m

Yield 20 meatballs, 6-8 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 22

3 slices white bread
1 kg minced beef
125 ml milk
10 ml salt
5 ml ground nutmeg
5 ml ground cloves
125 ml flour
25 ml oil
1 tablespoon parsley
1 tablespoon thyme
1 tablespoon marjoram, chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
30 ml Worcestershire sauce
100 ml tomato sauce
1 egg
100 g ginger biscuits, broken into pieces
100 g seedless raisins
60 ml tomato sauce
60 ml vinegar
60 ml brown sugar
60 ml oil, to be added if using very lean beef
500 ml beef stock or 500 ml chicken stock

Steps:

Soak bread in the milk and mix.
Add the rest of the ingredients except the oil and flour.
Form into large meatballs.
Roll each meatball in the flour.
Heat the oil in a heavy bottom pan and brown meatballs.
Transfer to a casserole dish.
Add the sauce and cover with a lid.
Bake in a 180 degree celcius oven for about 30 minutes till cooked.
Ginger Sauce:.
Mix all the ingredients for the sauce together and add to the meatballs. You do not have to brown the meatballs first. Just add the sauce directly to the uncooked meatballs and bake. Sauce can be halved succesfully.