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Mushroom sauce meatballs with mashed sweet potatoes

This meatballs with a mushroom and sweet potatoes recipe is the winner of the All Foods Natural autumn 2007 recipe competition. Participants had to be creative with mushrooms, and this is the result.

Ingredients

1 c mushroom (sliced)
1 t thyme (dried)
1⁄4 c sherry (cream sherry)
1 lb sweet potato (peeled and cut into chunks)
8 meat (meatballs, turkey, pork or beef to taste)
1 1⁄2 c broth (bets if it is the same as meatballs)

Instructions

  1. Boil water in a large pot and cook sweet potatoes until tender. Drain water. Using a potato masher, mash sweet potatoes. Add vegetable broth until potatoes reach desired consistency.
  2. Heat the vegetable meatballs in a skillet and cook until warmed through. Add mushrooms and saute 3 minutes until tender and releasing juice. Add thyme and stir to coat. Add remaining vegetable broth and simmer 3 minutes, until warm.
  3. Dissolve cornstarch in sherry and add to skillet. Simmer 1 minute, until sauce thickens. Spoon sweet potatoes on a plate and top with meatballs. Spoon mushroom sauce over top and serve.
Total time
1 hour, 5 minutes
Cooking time
45
Preparation time
20
Yield
4 servings

Notes

Use vegetarian meatballs for a vegetarian diet, otherwise use turkey, pork, or beef meatballs, as preferred.

Vegetarian option

Use vegetarian meatballs or falafels and vegetable broth.

Source

Adrianna, from Missouri, in her own words.

I learned to cook from my mother. After I moved away from home, it was pretty much a trial and error process.

My family is Cuban and I love Cuban cuisine like frijoles negros and picadillo. Pasteles de guayaba are my favorites.

I do the cooking at home and I cook for my husband and myself.

I've actually been trying out several cake recipes and have had a bit of success. Of course, my definition of success with a recipe means that my husband wants more than one serving.

I really enjoy making corn pudding if we are having chicken at home. When we are eating out, I enjoy ordering something new that I haven't tried before.

When we entertain friends... my husband enjoys grilling so we will usually do that when we have company. My husband likes to grill skirt steak and I make a broccoli and pine nut casserole or scalloped summer squash. For dessert, I'll make a cobbler or flan.


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