Meatballs with sauce

Ingredients for 4 servings:

• 250 g carrot(s)
• salt and pepper
• 1 roll, stale, soaked
• 5 onions
• 250 g mushrooms
• 100 g gherkins and 100 ml pickle juice
• 500 g minced meat
• 1 egg(s)
• 1 tsp mustard
• Paprika powder, sweet
• 2 tbsp oil
• 375 ml vegetable broth
• 100 g cream
• 1 tsp sauce thickener, light
• Sugar

Instructions

Working time approx. 30 minutes; Total time approx. 30 minutes

Attention: Danger of addiction, because it is simply delicious

Wash, peel, and dice the carrots, then cook for about 8 minutes until tender. Finely chop the mushrooms and cucumbers. Mix the minced meat with the squeezed-out bread roll, egg, and mustard. Season the meatball mixture with salt, pepper, and paprika, and form into small meatballs. Slice the onions and fry in oil, remove and set aside. Brown the meatballs all over, remove and keep warm. Brown the mushrooms, add the onions and carrots. Deglaze with vegetable stock, cucumber juice, and cream. Add the gherkins. Stir in the sauce thickener, bring to a boil, and season the sauce with salt, pepper, paprika, and sugar. Then add the meatballs back in and bring to a boil again. This goes perfectly with spaetzle!