Sweet & Sour Meatball Surprise

Ingredients
- 1lb ground elk
- 1 Egg
- Bread Crumbs
- Chinese Steam Fried Noodles (farkay brand)(uncooked)
- Red Onion- coarsely chopped
- Mushrooms - approx 10 cut in half
- Sugar Snap Peas
- Celery - sliced on a diagonal
- 1 Red Pepper- cut into large pieces

Sauce Ingredients

1 cup- Brown Sugar
3 TBSP - Sugar
1 1/2 cups -Water
1/4 cup- Vinegar
3 TBSP- Soy Sauce

Step One:

Combine ground elk, egg and bread crumbs, form meatballs then placed on a greased baking sheet and bake at 400 degrees until cooked. (approx 15 min.

Step 2: (while meatballs are cooking)

Heat a non-stick pan and sautee all of the vegetables until they are tender crisp, while meatballs and veggies are cooking the sauce can be prepared.

Sauce:

Combine all of the ingredients in a sauce pan and heat until it is boiling. (can easily be doubled if you like lots of sauce).

Assembly:

Choose your casserole dish, at least 2 1/2 quarts. Fill casserole dish halfway with the uncooked chinese noodles, put meatballs on top of the noodles,(i like to kind of push them into the noodles to "hide" them. Pour half of the prepared sauce over top of the meatballs and noodles. make sure to pour evenly as this is what will cook your noodles. Now put your vegetables overtop of the meatballs/noodles, the meatballs can peek through although it is better to completely cover them so they will not dry out. Pour the remainder of the sauce over the vegetables. Bake at 375 degrees for 30min or until it is bubbly.

* Note: a bag of your favourite stir fry veggies can be used in place of fresh ones and rice works just as well with this casserole as the noodles.