{"id":2926,"date":"2026-03-31T22:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recipes.ukbiddingdirectory.com\/?p=2926"},"modified":"2026-03-31T22:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:59:13","slug":"french-style-potato-meatball-and-cheese-bake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes.ukbiddingdirectory.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/31\/french-style-potato-meatball-and-cheese-bake\/","title":{"rendered":"French-Style Potato, Meatball, and Cheese Bake"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>French-Style Potato, Meatball, and Cheese Bake<\/h2>\n<h3>Ingredients:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>3 large potatoes<\/li>\n<li>1 chopped white onion<\/li>\n<li>1 lb (450 g) ground beef or your choice of meat for meatballs<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup breadcrumbs<\/li>\n<li>1 egg<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 tsp salt<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 tsp black pepper<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp garlic powder (optional)<\/li>\n<li>1 cup shredded cheese (Gruy\u00e8re, cheddar, or mozzarella)<\/li>\n<li>2 tbsp olive oil or butter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Instructions:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Preheat Oven:<\/strong> Preheat your oven to 375\u00b0F (190\u00b0C).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Boil Potatoes:<\/strong> Peel and boil potatoes until tender, about 15\u201320 minutes. Slice them into thin rounds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Prepare Meatballs:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>In a bowl, combine ground meat, breadcrumbs, egg, salt, pepper, and garlic powder.<\/li>\n<li>Form small meatballs, about 1 inch in diameter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cook Meatballs:<\/strong> In a skillet, heat olive oil or butter over medium heat and brown meatballs on all sides (they don\u2019t need to be fully cooked; they will finish baking in the oven).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Layer the Bake:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>In a baking dish, layer half of the potato slices.<\/li>\n<li>Add a layer of meatballs and half of the chopped onion.<\/li>\n<li>Sprinkle with half of the cheese.<\/li>\n<li>Repeat layers with the remaining potatoes, meatballs, onion, and top with the remaining cheese.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bake:<\/strong> Cover with foil and bake for 20\u201325 minutes. Remove the foil and bake another 10 minutes until cheese is golden and bubbly.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Serve:<\/strong> Let it cool slightly, then serve warm.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French-Style Potato, Meatball, and Cheese Bake Ingredients: 3 large potatoes 1 chopped white onion 1 lb (450 g) ground beef&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.ukbiddingdirectory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.ukbiddingdirectory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.ukbiddingdirectory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.ukbiddingdirectory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.ukbiddingdirectory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.ukbiddingdirectory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2927,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.ukbiddingdirectory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions\/2927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.ukbiddingdirectory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.ukbiddingdirectory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.ukbiddingdirectory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.ukbiddingdirectory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}