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Minced meat and mashed potato casserole

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Ingredients for 4 servings:

  • 600 g potatoes
  • 100 ml milk, hot
  • nutmeg
  • 800 g minced meat
  • 2 small onions
  • 4 large carrots
  • 300 ml broth
  • 2 tbsp tomato paste
  • Salt
  • pepper
  • 100 g cheese, preferably medium-aged Gouda

Instructions

Working time approx. 15 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 50 minutes; Total time approx. 1 hour 5 minutes

Meatballs

Preheat the oven to 200°C. Peel the potatoes, chop them, and boil them in salted water. Peel the carrots and onions and cut them into small cubes. Brown the minced meat in a pan with a little oil. Then add the carrots and onions to the minced meat and brown them. Add the broth and tomato paste and season the mixture with salt and pepper. Drain the potatoes and mash them. Then add the hot milk and season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Pour the minced meat into the dish, spread the mashed potatoes on top, and sprinkle everything with cheese. Bake in the preheated oven for about 40 minutes.

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Written by John Myers

Professional Chef with 29 years of industry experience at the highest levels. Restaurant owner. Beverage Director with experience creating world-class nationally recognized cocktail programs. Food writer with a distinctive Chef-driven voice and point of view.

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