how to make meatball with frozen minced meat

[cyphercat]

I usually get fresh minced meat and freeze them but I accidentally ordered already frozen minced beef from tesco. They look indivicually frozen iykwim.

It says to cook from frozen, so how can I make meatballs from it..??? Sorry in advance for being ignorant but I never had experience with this kind of meat. Thank you.

If it doesn't work as meatballs, any recipes would be lovely. Thank you!! I have 1kg of minced beef and 1kg of lamb mince!! and don't know what to do with it.

individually..sorry

What are the instructions on the packet? Does it say to defrost the mince before using it, or use straight from frozen?

If its defrost first, then you can let it defrost then use as normal. If use from frozen...um Im not sure as Ive never used it before!

I honestly cannot imagine a scenario where NOT defrosting something before cooking is a bad thing. It's obviously come in a (supposedly) handy "freeze-then-bang-straight-in-oven" format, but I see no reason why you couldn't just defrost the mince as normal, then use it to make meatballs. Only thing of course would be that you'd have to make the meatballs, cook them and eat them as you couldn't freeze them again before cooking (although I guess you could make them, cook them, and THEN refreeze?).

Just thaw it like you would do with the mince you freeze yourself.

I suppose I could thaw them, but I just wondered why it says to cook from frozen..??? I guess I'm the only one who bought it from the shop. DH and I looked at each other when the bags arrived. I'll try making meatballs after thawing it. Thank you.