Meatball Stew

This is a recipe I have had since the late 1960. Great one dish meal with your meat and vegetables cooked together.

• Ready In: 1 hr 20 mins
• Serves: 4-5

Ingredients

• 1  lb ground beef
• 1⁄4 cup  fine breadcrumbs
• 1  chopped onion (divided)
• 1  egg
• 2 1⁄2 teaspoons salt (divided)
• 1⁄4 teaspoon pepper
• 1  tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
• 2 (8 ounce) cans tomato sauce (divided)
• 2  tablespoons  oil
• 4  carrots (chopped)
• 2 -3  potatoes (chunked)
• 1 (16 ounce) package frozen green beans
• 1  cup water
• 1  tablespoon flour

Directions

1. Combine beef, bread crumbs, 1/4 Cup of the chopped onion, egg, 1 1/2 tsp salt, the pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and 1/2 cup of the tomato sauce.
2. Roll the meat mixture into about 16 balls and brown them in the oil in a skillet.
3. Add the rest of the chopped onion, carrots, potatoes, 1 tsp of the salt, the rest of the tomato sauce, beans and the water.
4. Simmer covered for one hour stirring occasionally.
5. Gradually mix with the flour with 1/2 cup of the liquid from the stew, then pour that over the stew and continue to heat until the stew thickens.