Make a tasty vegetable stock with onions, leeks, celery, carrots, a bouquet garni and a veal shank. You can also use vegetable stock cubes if you want to make it quick. Make small balls of the minced meat mixed with grated onion, crushed garlic, a slice of bread without the crust soaked in milk, an egg, pepper and salt. Poach the meatballs briefly in the vegetable stock, drain them and fry them in butter until brown all over.

meatballs in tomato sauce

ingredients - info mixed minced meat onions garlic stale bread milk eggs pepper & salt butter plain flour tomato puree

canned diced tomatoes mushrooms olive oil Madeira parsley Vegetable stock: onions leek celery carrots bouquet garni veal shank

Make a roux (butter and flour) and add the vegetable stock until the sauce is thick enough. Mix with tomato puree and a can of diced tomatoes. Quarter the white mushrooms and fry until almost dry in some olive oil. Now put everything together: the meatballs, the sauce and the mushrooms. Bring to the right temperature and finish off with a dash of Madeira wine and chopped parsley. Serve with mashed potatoes, or Belgian fries.