Hello Dear Reader,
DB has a theory that all food is better if you add bacon. He also believes that the best thing for a bacon sandwich is more bacon. He has a point.
Our local butchers sells 24 frozen beef meats balls for 99p! You really ought to live where I live and I bought a pack of smoky streaky bacon for 99p in Aldi. This is more than enough for four portions of my beefy bacon balls in a Chasseur sauce.
You will need for the sauce
50g butter
1 finely chopped courgette, pepper, onion and 8 finely chopped mushrooms,
1 tin of chopped tomatoes
3 finely sliced carrots
1 glass of wine
300ml of stock - I used a cube and water
1 teaspoon of chopped garlic
2 teaspoons of tomato puree/paste
1 scant teaspoon of corn flour.
Pasta
Meatballs
Streaky bacon.
Set the slow cooker to low.
Heat a pan with butter.
Add the courgette, mushrooms, pepper and onion.
Blend in the corn flour.
Add to the slow cooker.
Add the rest of the ingredients and stir.
This will bubble away all day.
Wrap the bacon around the meat balls, cover and leave in the fridge until you get in from work.
When you get home, set the slow cooker to high and cook the meat balls.
Add them to the sauce in the slow cooker. Remove a ladle full of sauce from the slow cooker and de-glaze the frying pan with this and then add that back to the slow cooker.
Leave these to bubble away for 30 minutes. In that time, cook the pasta.
Cook and drain the pasta, stir through a tiny bit of butter and then add to the meat and sauce.
Give it a good stir to coat the pasta.
Totally lovely!
Easily serves four meals, some for tonight and some for lunch tomorrow.
This is really a poor person's version of a chasseur when we don't have any steak!
Missed some recipes?
Try these
Chicken and bacon pie
Roasted Vegetable soup
Blackberry, Apricot, Crumble and Custard Cake
Mince and potato pie
I still haven't used my oven and everything is getting cooked in my crockpot! This has got to be saving me money!
Until tomorrow,
Love Froogs xxx