Beef Meatballs in Mushroom Sauce with Buckwheat
Twenty browned meatballs finished in a mushroom cream sauce, over buckwheat.
55 min
4 servings
Difficulty 3/5
Lunch · Dinner
Prep 25 min · Cook 30 min
The sauce is built in the same pan the meatballs browned in, so nothing that stuck to the bottom is wasted. Flour thickens it before the cream goes in, which means 15% cream is enough and the sauce still coats the buckwheat instead of running off it.
Per serving
601
kcal / serving
Ingredients
Written for 4 servings. Change the servings to rescale every amount.
Parsley · Garnish
1 handful (15 grams)
Meatballs
Ground Beef, lean (10% fat)
600 grams
Chicken Egg, whole
1 medium (51 grams)
Onion
80 grams
Garlic
2 cloves (6 grams)
Olive Oil
1 tablespoon (14 grams)
Salt
to taste
Black Pepper
to taste
Mushroom sauce
White Mushrooms
300 grams
Onion
80 grams
Butter
1 tablespoon (14 grams)
Wheat Flour
1 tablespoon (8 grams)
Chicken Stock
150 milliliters
Cream 15%
200 milliliters
Thyme, dried
1 teaspoon (1 gram)
Salt
to taste
To serve
Buckwheat, cooked
600 grams
Steps
Grate the onion for the meatballs and mix it into the beef with the egg, crushed garlic, salt and pepper. Roll 20 balls of about 35 g.
8 min
Brown them in the olive oil in two batches, so the pan stays hot. Set them aside — they finish in the sauce.
8 min
Slice the mushrooms and fry them in the butter over high heat until the water they release has boiled off and they start to colour. A crowded pan steams them grey.
6 min
Add the second onion, chopped, and fry 3 minutes. Stir in the flour and thyme and cook one minute more.
4 min
Pour in the stock first and stir it smooth, then the cream. Return the meatballs and simmer 8 minutes, until the sauce coats a spoon.
8 min
Serve over the buckwheat with parsley on top.
2 min
Serving suggestion
Mashed potato or wide noodles take the sauce as well as buckwheat does.
Storage
Three days in the fridge and better on the second. Reheat on low — boiling splits the cream.
Notes
Grating the onion rather than chopping it matters here: pieces of raw onion make the balls break apart.
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