Meatballs - bought them, now dont know what to do with them!

[losty]

Were on offer. Look v nice. Beef meatballs.. But now it is time to cook them I have no idea what to do with them...

Please help - the DSs will want their tea in an hour or so!

I have plenty of veg and pots. Please dont say make a casserole - mine always taste insipid! (unless you can give me chapter and verse for a receipe!)

TIA

Serve with spaghetti/pasta in a tomato sauce.

cook them, then mix some tinned tomatoes or passata with stock, bring to the boil, add some garlic, salt pepper and a pinch of chilli powder, and then plonk the cooked meatballs in and simmer for 20 mins. Garnish with parsley. Then serve over spaghetti with garlic bread. I made pork meatballs on saturday, was very tasty.

Do you have a tomato sauce home-made or a jar?

Grill the meatballs or cook in the oven and serve with heated tomato sauce over them. This is probably the quickest way to do this

Serve with pasta or rice or cous cous or even jacket potatos and some veg on the side. That would be the quickest way.

oh btw, I used tinned toms, so added a little cornflour to thicken the sauce up too.

forgot to say - no one particularly likes cooked tomato sauce (they all eat raw tomoatoes though

Is grilling the best way to cook them? Tehy are quite large.. like those big bouncy balls you can get fo 50p from one of those machines outside a sweetshop...

Onion gravy and mashed spuds then.

saintG that sounds nice!

I have tons of onions...

tell me how to make onion gravy please If DG were around I would hear her doing this just like the time I asked how to boil a perfect egg....

Fry (or grill) the meatballs to give them a bit of colour.

Meanwhile, lightly fry some onions and use as the base for a big pan of gravy. Sling meatballs into gravy and simmer gently whilst you cook/mash spuds. Serve with whatever veg you have.

yeah what stg said then. I shallow fried mine on a tava (flat frying pan) then stuck them in the sauce. I would fry them they put them in gently simmering onion gravy for a while to be sure they are cooked through.

thank you!

How do you normally make gravy - long, traditional or granules?

My cheats granule gravy is:

Fry onions.
Stir in gravy granules, makes a sloppy mess.
Add boiling water or stock and stir like crazy until you have gravy of the thickness you prefer.

I dont usually make gravy I use stock cubes - or if I am cooking a special roast meal (which is rare) I buy ready made stuff

how was it?