gratinated meatballs with mozzarella with zucchini-tomato vegetables and pine nuts

AUTHOR
Bill Macdonald
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4 3
COOK TIME
30 mins
TOTAL TIME
30 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 1 Bread rolls from the previous day
  • 400 g Courgette
  • 800 g Tomatoes
  • 1 big onion
  • 500 g mixed minced meat
  • 1 egg (size M)
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 7-10 Tbsp Pepper
  • 3 TABLESPOONS Pine nuts
  • 125 g Mozzarella cheese
  • 3 TABLESPOONS Oil
  • 2-3 stem(s) Basil
  • 2-3 stem(s) Thyme
  • 2-3 TABLESPOONS Balsamic vinegar
  • 7-10 Tbsp Sugar

Directions

  1. 1

    Soak rolls in cold water. Wash and clean the zucchini and tomatoes. Halve the zucchini, quarter lengthwise and cut into 1 cm thick pieces. Cut the tomatoes into pieces. Peel and finely chop the onion.

  2. 2

    Squeeze the buns. Knead minced meat, bread roll, half onion and egg. Season with salt and pepper. Form 8 flat meatballs from the minced meat mixture. Roast the pine nuts in a pan without fat, take them out.

  3. 3

    Cut mozzarella into 8 slices. Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a frying pan, fry the meatballs for 8-10 minutes over medium heat, turning them over, and cover with cheese. Cover and fry until the cheese has melted.

  4. 4

    Heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a second pan and sauté the remaining onion cubes in it. Fry the prepared vegetables for about 5 minutes, turning them over. Pluck the basil and thyme from the stalks and chop them, except for a little to garnish.

  5. 5

    Stir vinegar into the vegetables and season with salt, pepper, sugar and herbs. Bring to the boil and simmer for about 5 minutes. Arrange tomato-zucchini vegetables with meatballs, sprinkle with pine nuts and garnish with thyme and basil.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
650 kcal
CARBS
16 g
FATS
48 g
PROTEINS
39 g

Categories & Tags

Main DishesMeatball