Meatballs: Another attempt

Meatballs

Just like all of you, I do meatballs every now and again. I have no one way of doing them so they are sometimes more or less successful. This is how I did it this time.

Ingredients

Premium beef mince (ground beef)

½ onion finely chopped

2 cloves of garlic

(You could microwave the onion and garlic a bit first to soften it.  I didn't bother)

Heaped teaspoon of mustard powder

Squeeze of tomato paste

¼ cup of breadcrumbs (I used store bought but homemade with stale bread would be better)

A small amount (say a couple of spoonfuls) of one of milk/cream/ sour cream or crème fraiche (I had crème fraiche in the fridge so I used that)

1 egg

Small handful of shredded parmesan

½ red chilli, finely chopped

Small piece of ginger – grated with my microplane 

A pinch of nutmeg or mace

Salt and white pepper

A teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce

I mixed this well enough to be mixed but not changing the texture too much.  I moulded it into meatballs with wet hands.  Then popped them into the fridge for about half an hour to set up a bit.

I cooked them by frying them and then putting them into a warm, but not hot, oven while I made a small salad of shredded lettuce, capsicum (bell pepper) and avocado and cooked a little pasta in salted water with a little store bought fresh alfredo sauce.

Pasta with Alfredo sauce

Lettuce, capsicum and avocado salad

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