Meatballs With Ginger Sauce

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 3 slices 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

Recipe

• 1 soak bread in the milk and mix.
• 2 add the rest of the ingredients except the oil and flour.
• 3 form into large meatballs.
• 4 roll each meatball in the flour.
• 5 heat the oil in a heavy bottom pan and brown meatballs.
• 6 transfer to a casserole dish.
• 7 add the sauce and cover with a lid.
• 8 bake in a 180 degree celcius oven for about 30 minutes till cooked.
• 9 ginger sauce:.
• 10 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.