Simple Meals Diary: Mashed Potatoes With Baked Meatballs Dinner

Thursday, May 16, 2019

Mashed Potatoes With Baked Meatballs Dinner

Here is another my all-time favorite dinner recipe – mashed potatoes and meatballs. Meatballs are store-bought, usually I would buy them from Walmart – ‘Great Value’ fully cooked homestyle meatballs↓

But today I had Italian style meatballs from Sam’s club. Both original or homestyle taste good in this recipe. You will also need a jar of pasta sauce. My favorite one is again from Walmart😉

Preheat oven to 400F for Italian style meatballs, and 350F for regular home style.

Place desired amount of meatballs in baking pan (mine is a cake pan lined with foil), bake it for about 25 mins.

For mashed potatoes you will need russet potatoes, milk and butter ( salted or unsalted, it doesn’t matter).

Peel desired amount of potatoes and place them in a pot.

Add water (enough to cover all the potatoes) and 1 tbsp of salt.

Cover and bring to boil on high heat. Once It’s boiling, turn heat to medium and slowly boil until done. Watch it all the time, because if it’s boiling too intense the water can overflow.

Meanwhile, take the meatballs out of the oven, pour about half a jar of sauce (sauce needs to cover all the meatballs). I also add some seasonings – garlic powder, curry powder, minced onion, black pepper – just to make it more flavorful.

Mix all well and bake for another 20-25 mins until sauce is hot and bubbling.

Potatoes usually take about 25 mins to cook. Сheck by poking one with knife or fork, once you feel all the potatoes are soft and break easy, they are done. Then pour potato water in the sink (cover loosely with lid leaving some space, hold on sides with towel or oven mittens and pour). It’s ok to leave some water on the bottom.

Then add about 1 cup of milk ( hot or cold), and start mashing. As mashing potatoes add some more milk, once you feel it gets dry and needs more liquid. Usually I would add 1-2 cups of milk depending on amount of potatoes.