Little Meatballs
- 500 g ground lamb or 500 g ground beef
- 2 zucchini
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 red chile, finely chopped (go on, make it 2)
- 2 tablespoons fresh mint leaves, finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup dried breadcrumbs
- salt and pepper
- grate the zucchini and squeeze out the moisture. add all the other ingredients and mix together with your hands. the consistency should be quite firm - add more breadcrumbs if needed.
- shape into mini burgers taking a small handful at a time or use a heaped teaspoon of the mixture and roll into balls.
- put on a baking tray lined with baking paper and bake in the oven at 180C for 20 minutes until browned. serve with mint sauce.
- makes 35 meatballs or 12 mini burgers.
- the mint sauce: mash together 1 clove of garlic and a small handful of mint leaves to a paste in a pestle. add the juice of one lemon and mash some more. mix in 3/4 of a cup of thick natural yoghurt and add salt and pepper to taste.
zucchini, onion, garlic, red chile, mint, ground cumin, egg, breadcrumbs, salt
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/little-meatballs-161996 (may not work)