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Layer Potatoes and Meatballs With Bechamel Sauce

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Cuisine: French
Prep Time: 50 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
Servings: 15 Meatballs

Ingredients

For the Bechamel Sauce

  • 2.5 oz of Butter
  • A quarter cup of plain flour
  • 4 cups of milk
  • 2 tsp of salt or according to your liking
  • Half a teaspoon of Nutmeg

For Potatoes & Meatballs

  • 3 Potatoes
  • 1 medium-sized Onion
  • 500 g Beef Mince
  • Chopped Parsley
  • 1 tsp of Paprika Powder
  • 4.5 oz of Mozzarella Cheese
  • Salt and Pepper for seasoning

Instructions

How to make the Bechamel Sauce?

  • You will start by making a well-blended bechamel sauce that will be used later.
  • First, you need to take a saucepan and keep it over medium to low heat and melt the butter.
  • Add the flour and stir it with the butter.
  • Keep mixing the flour and butter until it gets smooth and changes its color to light golden.
  • You can take another pan for boiling the milk.
  • As soon as your milk is boiled, start adding it gradually to the butter and mix it. You must stir constantly to make sure that the mixture is smooth.
  • Now increase the flame and let the mixture absorb the milk. You can cook for around 10 minutes and then close the stove.
  • For seasoning your sauce, add nutmeg or salt to give the perfect balancing taste.

How to make potatoes and meatballs:

  • First, preheat the oven at 400 degrees before you put the potatoes and meatballs to cook.
  • Now, take a large bowl, add meat, parsley, paprika, salt, and pepper. You can even try some seasonings if you like them in your meatballs.
  • Mix the ingredients to make a perfect mixture.
  • Peel 3 potatoes and boil them for 5 to 7 minutes until they are semi-soft. Now, take a knife and slice them in rounds.
  • Take a square or round dish and put the slices of boiled potatoes in it.
  • You can add the potatoes on the side and the bottom.
  • After that prepare your meatballs from the mixture. You can either take an ice cream scoop spoon for help or prepare them with your hands.
  • Now, add those meatballs to the potatoes in the dish.
  • To fill the gaps between the meatballs add potatoes on the sides of them.
  • Now, add your delicious bechamel sauce on the meatballs and potatoes until the dish is half-full.
  • Now, add a thin layer of cheese above the sauce.
  • Finally, put the dish in the oven and let it cook for 15 minutes.
  • Your wonderful and tasty dish is ready and you will definitely fall in love with it.