Potatoes with Meatballs and Cooking Cream
A potato and meatball dish in a creamy sauce, prepared in the oven or on the stovetop.
A creamy baked or stovetop dish combining potatoes and meatballs.
Like a creamy potato-and-meatball casserole.
This is a rich comfort dish; cook the potatoes and meatballs until tender in the cream sauce.
Ingredients
- 1.5 kg potatoes
- 600 g ground meat
- 4 onions medium onions
- 1/2 kg tomatoes
- 300 g mixed-color bell peppers
- 300 g mozzarella cheese
- 150 ml cooking cream
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon dried coriander
- optional chopped parsley for the meat
- 1 teaspoon mixed spices
- 300 grams green and red bell peppers
- 3 tablespoons finely chopped parsley
- 1/2 cup water
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200°C, with top and bottom heat, before starting.
- Slice the potatoes into medium-thick slices in an oven tray—not too thick and not too thin.
- Cut the tomatoes into small rounds or whatever shape is available, then arrange them over the potatoes in the oven tray.
- In a bowl, mix all the spices together: salt, coarsely ground black pepper, dried coriander, and mixed spices.
- Season the potatoes in the oven tray with 1/2 cup olive oil and the mixed spices.
- Add the onion slices to the oven tray over the layers of potatoes and tomatoes.
- Season the ground meat in a bowl with one grated onion, chopped parsley, and the mixed spices.
- Shape the meat in the oven tray into small meatballs of similar size.
- Add the bell peppers to the oven tray if using, then add 1/2 cup water and a drizzle of olive oil.
- Place the oven tray on the lower rack and bake until the ingredients are cooked through, for 35 to 40 minutes depending on the oven.
- Add the cooking cream to the oven tray after the ingredients have initially cooked.
- Add the mozzarella cheese over the top in the oven tray.
- Return the oven tray to the oven for about 7 minutes, until the cheese melts.