Braised Meatballs in Red Wine Gravy

Get competent for a few critical alleviation food. Braised Meatballs in Red Wine Gravy with Spinach Gruyere Mashed Potatoes is one hearty meal (and a mouthful!). This is an vintage recipe I clipped out of a Bon Appetit journal at the least 12 years ago. (Note: I’ve adapted the recipe beautiful a bit. See unique recipe here.) A recipe needs to be actually nice for me to dangle onto it that long- and this one is.


Extra-large and mushy red meat meatballs are cooked in a full-bodied wine sauce. The wine-sauce is beautiful thick and acts as a tremendous gravy for the mashed potatoes.


You’ll desire to make use of a high-quality red wine which you simply actually just like the style of as the wine taste is beautiful prominent. There’s a complete cup and a half additional to the sauce. You would possibly be thinking. Uh-oh. That doesn’t go away a lot wine to drink whereas I cook. But it’s absolutely value setting that a lot wine on this sauce.

Ingredients 1 6-ounce piece day-old French Bread, cut into 8 items (about 1/3 a loaf of bread) 1 cup entire milk 1 3/4 kilos flooring red meat (7 to 15% fat) 2 huge eggs, flippantly beaten 1 medium onion, finely chopped 1/2 cup chopped parsley 2 teaspoons salt 1 teaspoon black pepper 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme all aim flour 2 tablespoons butter 1 1/2 teaspoons olive oil 1 1/2 cups red wine 1/4 cup tomato paste 2 1/2 cups canned red meat broth Mashed Potatoes 1 bag of child spinach 4 kilos Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled and cut into 2-inch pieces 1 stick butter 1 1/4 cups warm entire milk or more 2 cups grated Gruyère cheese Instructions Preheat oven to 350. Combine bread and milk in a medium bowl, urgent on bread to submerge. Let sit 10 minutes. Squeeze out most of milk from bread and discard milk. Place bread in a huge bowl. Add flooring beef, eggs, finely chopped onion, parsley, salt, pepper, and thyme. Using your hands, blend collectively till effectively combined. Form 1 3/4 inch meatballs and region in 2 13-by-9-inch glass baking dishes. Bake for 30 minutes. Let cool slightly. Dust meatballs with flour and shake off excess. Melt butter and oil in a huge skillet over medium-high heat. In 2 batches, saute meatballs till browned on all sides, about 3 minutes. Return all meatballs to skillet. Whisk collectively tomato paste and wine. Add to skillet and deliver to a boil. Continue boiling 5 minutes, till liquid thickens slightly. Stir often. Add broth, scale back warmth to medium and simmer till it thickens, about 15 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Cook potatoes in a huge pot of salted water for 30 minutes, till very tender. Drain well. Place in bowl with butter and mash well. Add milk to potatoes and mash and stir to incorporate. Add cheese. Add spinach and stir it in. The warmth from the mashed potatoes will wilt and steam the spinach. If your potatoes have cooled off to a lot to do this, you may microwave them to warmth them again up. Season liberally with salt and pepper.

The meatballs are first baked within the oven, then dusted in flour, sauteed in butter and oil, after which braised within the red wine sauce. All those steps truly construct a few superior flavor!

I truly just like the thought of setting recent spinach in mashed potatoes. It truly turns into a one dish meal that method and also you don’t truly experience such as you should serve a salad with it.

Just because the wine style is quite excessive within the sauce, there’s a quite solid Gruyere style within the mashed potatoes and I’ve the truth is lowered the quantity from the unique recipe. If you aren’t truly in love with the style of gruyere, or don’t desire to spend an arm and a leg for it, scale back the quantity even extra or use a other cheese.

These Braised Meatballs in Red Wine Gravy are so prosperous and comforting. If you’re searching for a lighter recipe, strive those Turkey Meatballs.

Nutrition
Calories: 883kcal