What are your easiest, tastiest meals - quick to prepare when you can't think of anything!!

Now THIS one looks great for a cold winter's night (you could do it in a camp oven when out camping too!)

Potato & Meatballs in Bechamel Sauce with cheese topping! 

Before & after pics .... a good one for the kids to cook, I reckon!

INGREDIENTS

For the Bechamel Sauce

• 2.5 oz of Butter
• A quarter cup of plain flour
• 4 cups of milk
• 2 tsp of salt or according to your liking
• Half a teaspoon of Nutmeg

For Potatoes & Meatballs

• 3 Potatoes
• 1 medium-sized Onion - diced finely
• 500 g Beef Mince
• Chopped Parsley
• 1 tsp of Paprika Powder
• 4.5 oz of Mozzarella Cheese
• Salt and Pepper for seasoning

INSTRUCTIONS

How to make the Bechamel Sauce?

• You will start by making a well-blended bechamel sauce that will be used later.
• First, you need to take a saucepan and keep it over medium to low heat and melt the butter.
• Add the flour and stir it with the butter.
• Keep mixing the flour and butter until it gets smooth and changes its colour to light golden.
• You can take another pan for boiling the milk.
• As soon as your milk is boiled, start adding it gradually to the butter and mix it. You must stir constantly to make sure that the mixture is smooth.
• Now increase the flame and let the mixture absorb the milk. 
• You can cook for around 10 minutes and then reduce the heat.
• For seasoning your sauce, add nutmeg or salt to give the perfect balancing taste.

How to make potatoes and meatballs:

• First, preheat the oven at 400 degrees before you put the potatoes and meatballs to cook.
• Now, take a large bowl, add meat, onion, parsley, paprika, salt, and pepper. You can even try some other seasonings if you like them in your meatballs. (Mixed Herbs could be nice!)
• Mix the ingredients to make a perfect mixture.
• Peel 3 potatoes and boil them for 5 to 7 minutes until they are semi-soft. Now, take a knife and slice them in rounds.
• Take a square or round dish, spray with oil, and put the slices of boiled potatoes in it.
• You can add the potatoes on the side and the bottom.
• After that prepare your meatballs from the mixture. You can either take an ice cream scoop spoon for help or prepare them with your hands.
• Now, add those meatballs to the potatoes in the dish.
  To fill the gaps between the meatballs add potatoes on the sides of them.
• Now, add your delicious bechamel sauce on the meatballs and potatoes until the dish is half-full.
• Now, add a thin layer of cheese above the sauce.
• Finally, put the dish in the oven and let it cook for 15 minutes.
• Your wonderful and tasty dish is ready and you will definitely fall in love with it.

Hmmmm - I think I'd leave it in for a tad longer than 15 mins (even tho the potatoes are already half cooked & the bechamel sauce is still hot)  .... that doesn't really sound long enough for the meatballs, as they are quite large! 

Let me know how you go when you make it - and how long you left it in for?