This dish is very practical It’s suitable for festive gatherings, because it doesn’t require a lot of time for preparing and everythings are baked at one time. All you need is only salads. We all agreed that we will prepare it again and again.

(6 cakes)

400-500 g minced meat

1 egg

1 onion

2 tsps. mayonnaise

1 tbsp. starch

salt

peppers

4-5 potatoes

pinch of caraway

2 cloves garlic

oil

6 slices cheese

Chop onion. Mix minced meat with onion, egg, starch. Season with salt and peppers. Devide meat to 6 parts and form thin cakes. Put them on a baking tray. Coat with mayonnaise (actually I forgot to do this).
Peel potatoes and cut in small cubes. Put in the bowl, sprinkle with a few tablespoons of oil, season with caraway seeds, garlic, salt and peppers. Mix everything. Put potatoes on meat and press a little bit. Bake in preheated to 220°C oven about 20 minutes. Then put cheese slices on top and put to the oven till cheese melts.

Source: Laikas į virtuvę

I think this is the last recipe with pasta for some time. Now I’ll take a break from pasta because now we eat a lot of salads, barbequed meat and everything we find in the freezer. Of course when autumn will be near, we gonna need warming and satisfying food, so pasta will be back. Some words about the recipe. It’s satisfying and good, and simple. Unfortunately I had only one third of cheese, but it didn’t ruined the taste.

(6 servings)

300 g pasta

400 g minced meat

1 onion

2 cloves of garlic

1 can (400 g) of chopped tomatoes

100 ml water

100 g feta cheese

150 g grated cheese

2 tsps. red bell pepper powder

salt

peppers

Boil the pasta. Fry minced meat with a chopped garlic and onion. Add water, chopped tomatoes and feta cheese. Season with paprika, salt and peppers. Put meat and pasta to a baking dish, mix well. Sprinkle with cheese and bake at 180°C preheated oven for about 20 minutes.

Source: Sveikos šeimos virtuvė. Žurnalo “Sveika” serija. 2008

Meat balls just melts in your mouth. Very very tasty! Just if you gonna use soy sauce, be careful with salt.

Meat balls:

50 g bread crumbs

200 ml sour cream

1 onion

1 tbsp. butter

500 g minced meat

1 egg

1-2 tsps. salt

1/2 tsp. white peppers

butter for frying

Brown sauce:

1 tbsp. butter

1 1/2 tbsp. wheat flour

300 ml baking liquid

white or black peppers

salt

50-100 ml cream

soy sauce (optional)

In a bowl with sour cream mix bread crumbs and let sit for 5-10 minutes. Chop onion and fry in a pan with butter. Leave to cool. To the bread crumbs add onions, minced meat, season with salt, peppers and mix till solid texture. With a teaspoon take some meat and form balls with wet hands. Fry in a pan with butter while get nice brown color. Pour some hot water and simmer a littl bit – this liquid will be for sauce. Prepared meat balls put in warm place and prepare sauce. In a pan melt butter, pour flour and brown a little bit. Strain meat balls and pour liquid to the pan with browned flour. Mix well. Season sauce with salt, peppers, pour cream. If you like, you can use soy sauce to make brown sauce better color and the taste was more spicy. Put meat balls in to the sauce and serve.

Source: Lengvi receptai II