Saturday 24 January 2015

Meatballs (Trial post)

Meatballs are delicacies that are made with minced beef, breadcrumbs and some other easy to get ingredients. They are really delicious and can be eaten as a snack alone or food topping on rice, noodles, spaghetti, soups, stew etc. Its preparation incorporates the use of readily available ingredients which are tossed together and deep fried. There are different types of meatballs based on the spices used and the type of meat.
The minced meat can be bought ready-made from good supermarkets or fresh beef can be bought from the market and simply minced using a meat grinder.
The bread crumbs can be bought ready made or prepared at home (will post on that soon).
The meatballs i made here are beef meatballs and this recipe yielded 60 meatballs. I

Ingredients
1kg minced beef
4 cups bread crumbs
4 large fresh eggs
Green peas
2 large green pepper (diced)
1 large onion (grated)
Grounded dried pepper (to your taste)
1/8 teaspoon thyme
1/8 teaspoon curry
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
1/8 teaspoon garlic (dried or freshly minced)
1/8 teaspoon ginger (dried or freshly minced)
Seasoning of choice
Salt
Vegetable oil for frying

Bread crumbs

Green pepper & peas

Grated onion

Complete mixture of meatballs before moulding into balls.






Preparation

1) Put the minced beef into a clean bowl and add the bread crumbs, raw eggs and mix very well with your hands.

2) Add the remaining and mix well till everything is well incorporated.

3) Scoop beef mixture with your hands and mould into balls, set on a flat tray. Continue till all the meat mixture is finished.

4) Deep fry meatballs, a few balls at a time till it turns brown. Allow the oil to be hot again for like 2minutes before adding the next set of meatballs.



ENJOY!!!

This is my first post as a food blogger, please i will appreciate comments on this recipe and general advise on blogging. I still have alot of work to do on the blog though regards personalization and graphics.
If you try this recipe, let me know how it went and send pictures to cynhamsfoodie@gmail.com.
Thanks.