Meatballs in Tomato Sauce (Varoma)

[Thermomixer]

Looks like you used your time away from the computer profitably Maddy - good work.

It is a great recipe and good for variations too.

[Snoozie]

Still a firm favourite here and a great way to hide veges!

[Chelsea (Thermie Groupie)]

We love it here too.

I always have quite a bit of sauce left over and normally freeze it to use as pizza sauce.  Last week however I used it as a vegetable sauce in a lasagne.  It was perfect layered with lasagne sheets, mashed sweet potato and grated cheese.  So easy and tasty.  I got the idea from one of the 4 Ingredients Cookbooks.  There's two useful recipes I've found in that cookbook now !!

[Jewels]

I MADE THIS LAST NIGHT & IT WAS DELISSSSSSIOUS. WILL BE MAKING AGAIN. HAVEN'T HAD MY TM LONG THIS IS THE 2 THING I'VE COOKED. THINK I'LL BE DOING THE PEELING GARLIC WITH TM & THE VEGE STOCK NEXT. GETTING READY FOR MORE ADVENTURES. THIS IS ALSO THE FIRST THING I'VE POSTED IF THAT'S THE CORRECT TEMINOLOGY. I'M A VIRGIN @ THIS

[Millipede]

I made this for your family during the last week but had to make a couple of adjustments to suit my DH's dietry requirements.

He doesnt eat red meat, so I created two types of meatballs... once using Beef mince for me and the kids and some with chicken mince for DH (ie minced 1 chicken breast in the TM, which made about half a dozen meatballs).

I also decided to brown off the meatballs in a frying pan before I put them in the varoma to steam . I know this creates extra washing up (LOL), but I thought that browing off the meatballs first added a bit more colour and flavour to the final dish.

Next time I might add some stock powder or maybe worcester (or even good old vegemite LOL)- something salty to contrast with the sugary tomatoey flavour.

Loved that all those vegies where hidden in the sauce though. Kids were none the wiser  And I liked that I got to pull my varoma out. 

Thanks! Great recipe 

[Thermomixer]

I see a theme in your posts Milly  Mum's the word 

[tarasis]

Been meaning to bump this for ages, we really enjoy this recipe; my wife and I the balls and the sauce and my kids just the balls.

It is a firm favorite in the house which we usually have with Bron's Steamed Garlic Rice (I usually make the sauce in advance as we don't have a thermoserver/insulated bowl yet and it's easy to reheat in the saucepan), it's rare to actually get to freeze some of the balls for leftovers /

[Tasty]

Made this for dinner tonight and was happy with how they turned out...especially the meatballs however next time I will probably reduce the sugar a bit and maybe add red wine or something to the sauce. Had it over plain rice.

[meganjane]

I've made these tonight. I made really little meatballs and got 34 off them. I added chicken stock powder to both sauce and meat mixture. Also a few herbs to sauce.
Yum!

[tarasis]

Haven't made this since I last posted. Eep. That's nearly a year

[faffa_70]

Lol we had these the other night, first time in a while and still loved by everyone ... especially DD as she won't eat pan cooked meatballs as they have a crust  well she does eat them ... she cuts them up and leaves the crust ... eats from the middle out 

[meganjane]

Mmm, must make these again!

[Kimmyh]

Made these for dinner tonight and was a big hit. Used sage instead of parsley and two cans tomatoes and red wine to make up to 1000g. Served over pasta. Love the steamed meatballs. Thank you this will be a regular for us from now on.

[obbie]

good for the kids, thanks

[JuliaC83]

Made this for dinner tonight!! Delicious!! Sauce was much nicer than I was expecting to be I added some chopped basil into the sauce too. I also forgot to follow the directions about blitzing fresh tomatoes before doing anything else ... and ended up with an orange sauce - but was still delicious  Definitely make again