Pork meatballs, sweet and sour sauce, mashed potatoes with thyme

Preparation time: 45 min

Preheat your Oven at 400 °F

• Prep

  Finely slice the ham.

  Peel the potatoes, dice them and place then in a pan of salted cold water.

  Remove the leaves of the thyme and the parsley.

  Finely chop the parsley for ths meatballs, keep some for the end.

• Meatballs

  In a bowl, gather all the ingredients, mix well, season wih salt and pepper (to make sure of the seasoning, cook a little bit of the mix and taste it)

  Now you can make meatballs, we're looking for a small golf ball size.

  Cooking

  In a hot pan with canola oil, color the meatballs on each side. Then place them on a baking tray with parchment paper. Depending on a how big the meatballs are, cook for 6 to 12 minutes.

• Sweet and sour sauce

  Gather all the ingredients in a pan, on a low heat, stir to combine and keep warm.

• Mashed potatoes

  Bring the pan with the potatoes to a boil. They're cooked when you can pierce them easily with a knife.

  Drain the potatoes and pass them through a potatoe ricer.

  In the same pan, pour in the milk with the thyme and bring to a boil. Add the potatoes and stir well with a wooden spoon to combine .

  Once homogenous, you just have to serve.

• Plating and last touch

  Plate size

  In a shallow plate, place a generous table spoon of mashed potatoes. Lay 5 to 6 meatballs here and there, drizzle some sweet and sour sauce. Finish with some parsley leaves.

   

  Tapas

  In a smaller plate, repeat the same process with less mashed potatoes and only 2 meatballs.