Monday 25 November 2013

Chilli Meatballs

From Jamie Oliver's 15 minute meals

Ingredients:
Bulgur wheat:
  • 300g bulgur wheat
  • 1 preserved lemon
  • 1 cinnamon stick


Meatballs:
  • 400g lean beef mince
  • 1 heaped tsp garam masala
  • olive oil 
  • 3 jarred red peppers
  • 4 spring onions
  • 1 tsp smoked paprika
  • 700g passata
  • bunch of fresh coriander
  • 1 x 400g tin of red kidney beans
  • pinch of cumin seeds
  • 4 tsp fat free natural yoghurt
  • 1 lime
Grilled chillies
  • 4 fresh chillies

Method

  1. Put 1 cup of bulgur wheat, 2 cups of boiling water, preserved lemon and the cinnamon stick into the medium pan and cover, stirring occasionally;
  2. Next scrunch the mince with salt, pepper and garam masala;
  3. Shape the balls and place balls into a frying pan with oil. Toss regularly;
  4. If you don't have a food processor, just finely slice the spring onions. 
  5. Get another frying pan and mix together the passata, paprika powder, spring onions and half of the coriander. Add some more pepper and salt for the taste of the sauce 
  6. Next grill the fresh chillies. When it has those stripes, you can remove chillies from grill. 
  7. Rinse and dry the kidney beans. Add the beans to your meatballs. Next add the cumin seeds to the meat balls. 
  8. Slowly add the meatballs with the beans to your  pan with sauce (Jamie advices to transfer the balls to the sauce with tongs, so you can add the beans later) 
  9. Remove the cinnamon stick from your 'bulgur' pan. Mash the lemon into the bulgur wheat and serve with the meatball sauce, dollops of yoghurt, charred chilies and wedges of lime, scattered with the remaining spring onions and coriander leaves.