Meatball Oven Stew

So, this is such a Mormon meal. This is a meal from John’s childhood, and I am posting it here because I updated it and used the pressure cooker and it’s awesomely easy. This meal is very basic, an easy weeknight meal, but not fancy enough for company. It’s one of those embarrassing meals I make, but I’m putting it out there. Twice a year, we eat this. And we like it well enough. And it’s probably a 6, but it’s familiar so we keep it in the rotation. It's good with green peas. No judging.

First, you combine the following to make meatballs:

ground turkey or beef, a lb. or so
2-3 tsp. dry mustard
2 –4 Tbs. chopped onion
2-4 Tbs. chopped green pepper
1 tsp. chili powder
1 slightly beaten egg
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp-1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
1/2 tsp. garlic powder
salt and pepper
dry parsley

Then, to the pressure cooker, you add:

1 onion, quartered and cut into pieces
6 potatoes, cut into chunks
6 carrots, cubed

Put salt and pepper on top of this.

Over this, you pour tomato juice. Or tomato soup with some water whisked in.

I put it on “Stew” function for 15 minutes. Magic. I mean, it tastes very mediocre and bland, but it was done and it was hot and no one complained.