Poached mini meatballs
Looking for dinner ideas? Try this healthy beef mince recipe. It's a great one-pot meal for the whole family.
SERVES4
TIME TO MAKE45 - 1 hour
MEAL TYPEDinner
TIME TO MAKE45 - 1 hour
MEAL TYPEDinner
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These poached mini meatballs are perfect for children.
Method
- Place mince, egg, bread crumbs, carrots, onion, parsley and tomato sauce into a bowl and mix together until combined, using clean hands.
- Use your hands to shape the beef mixture into balls about the size of a golf ball.
- Place on a tray and refrigerate until ready to cook.
- In a large pot add the water, stock cube, red onion and tomato.
- Bring to the boil then reduce heat and simmer for five minutes.
- Gently add the meatballs and cook over a low heat until they are cooked thoroughly.
- Divide the salad greens between serving bowls and ladle the meatballs and soup over the leaves and sprinkle with grated cheese.
- Serve with a wholemeal bread bun.
- 500 glean beef mince
- 1egg
- 1/2 cupdry bread crumbs
- 2carrots, grated
- 1/2onion, finely diced
- 1/2 cupchopped parsley
- 1 tbsptomato sauce/paste/puree
- 1 litrewater
- 2 cupssalad leaves
- 2tomatoes, sliced
- 1/2red onion, sliced
- 4 sliceswholemeal bread
- 1/4 cupgrated cheese
Per serve
- Energy1710kJ
- Total Fat13.7g
- Saturated Fat6.1g
- Total Carbohydrate27.8g
- Sugars10g
- Dietary Fibre6.4g
- Sodium454mg
These poached mini meatballs are perfect for children.
Method
- Place mince, egg, bread crumbs, carrots, onion, parsley and tomato sauce into a bowl and mix together until combined, using clean hands.
- Use your hands to shape the beef mixture into balls about the size of a golf ball.
- Place on a tray and refrigerate until ready to cook.
- In a large pot add the water, stock cube, red onion and tomato.
- Bring to the boil then reduce heat and simmer for five minutes.
- Gently add the meatballs and cook over a low heat until they are cooked thoroughly.
- Divide the salad greens between serving bowls and ladle the meatballs and soup over the leaves and sprinkle with grated cheese.
- Serve with a wholemeal bread bun.
Ingredients
- 500 glean beef mince
- 1egg
- 1/2 cupdry bread crumbs
- 2carrots, grated
- 1/2onion, finely diced
- 1/2 cupchopped parsley
- 1 tbsptomato sauce/paste/puree
- 1 litrewater
- 2 cupssalad leaves
- 2tomatoes, sliced
- 1/2red onion, sliced
- 4 sliceswholemeal bread
- 1/4 cupgrated cheese
Ingredients
- 500 glean beef mince
- 1egg
- 1/2 cupdry bread crumbs
- 2carrots, grated
- 1/2onion, finely diced
- 1/2 cupchopped parsley
- 1 tbsptomato sauce/paste/puree
- 1 litrewater
- 2 cupssalad leaves
- 2tomatoes, sliced
- 1/2red onion, sliced
- 4 sliceswholemeal bread
- 1/4 cupgrated cheese
Nutrition Facts
Per serve
- Energy1710kJ
- Total Fat13.7g
- Saturated Fat6.1g
- Total Carbohydrate27.8g
- Sugars10g
- Dietary Fibre6.4g
- Sodium454mg
These poached mini meatballs are perfect for children.
Method
- Place mince, egg, bread crumbs, carrots, onion, parsley and tomato sauce into a bowl and mix together until combined, using clean hands.
- Use your hands to shape the beef mixture into balls about the size of a golf ball.
- Place on a tray and refrigerate until ready to cook.
- In a large pot add the water, stock cube, red onion and tomato.
- Bring to the boil then reduce heat and simmer for five minutes.
- Gently add the meatballs and cook over a low heat until they are cooked thoroughly.
- Divide the salad greens between serving bowls and ladle the meatballs and soup over the leaves and sprinkle with grated cheese.
- Serve with a wholemeal bread bun.
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