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Prep Time: 10 Minutes Cook Time: 20 Minutes |
Ready In: 30 Minutes Servings: 4 |
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little spicy meatballs with a yoghurt, mint and garlic sauce. perfect with drinks Ingredients:
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 |
Directions:
1. 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.
2. shape into mini burgers taking a small handful at a time or use a heaped teaspoon of the mixture and roll into balls.
3. 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.
4. makes 35 meatballs or 12 mini burgers.
5. 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.
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