Oven baked pumpkin vegetables with meatballs
What do you serve on Christmas Eve? Are you traditional with roast meat, or is it perhaps the typical potato salad with sausages? If you're one of those families who like to try new things, why not make this #recipe your Christmas feast?
Our pumpkin vegetables with meatballs is the perfect collaboration between #Thermomix® and oven and is easy to make, so this dish certainly won't cause any extra stress.
Happy holidays from the #country house team
Preparation approx. 45 minutes
Cooking time 45-50 minutes
INGREDIENTS
- 1 piece of Hokkaido pumpkin
- 1 leek
- 750 g potatoes, mainly waxy
- 4-5 stalks thyme or 2 tsp heaped
- 1-2 sprigs of rosemary
- 4-5 tbsp oil
- 1 tsp coarse salt
- pepper
- 1/2 tsp sweet paprika powder
- 1 small onion
- 500 g minced meat mixed
- 800 ml water
- 100 g whipping cream
- Parsley
INSTRUCTIONS
Quarter the pumpkin, scoop out the seeds with a spoon and cut into thin slices. Cut the leek into rings, peel the potatoes and cut in half lengthwise. Place everything in a large bowl.
Pluck the rosemary and thyme, place in the mixing bowl, add the oil, salt, pepper and paprika powder and chop for 4 seconds/speed setting 5, then mix. Then add the marinade to the vegetables, mix well and transfer everything to a baking dish.
Rinse out the mixing bowl. Peel the onion, place in the mixing bowl and chop for 3 seconds/speed setting 5. Now add the minced meat to the mixing bowl, season with a little salt and mix well on the left-hand setting with visual contact.
Shape the mince into small balls, place in the Varoma® and cook for 20 min/speed setting 1. Spread the meatballs over the vegetables.
Now place the casserole dish on the lowest shelf of the preheated oven and cook at 200°C for approx. 45 minutes.
Remove the casserole dish from the oven, pour the cream over the vegetables and mix carefully. Roughly chop the parsley to garnish the dish.
