Spicy meatballs with paprika salsa and parmesan potatoes

AUTHOR
Brooke Calhoun
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 1
COOK TIME
75 mins
TOTAL TIME
75 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 1 kg Potatoes
  • 1 glass (370 ml) roasted red pepper
  • 2 Onions
  • 2 Garlic cloves
  • 4 TABLESPOONS + 2 tsp Ajvar (paprika preparation; glass)
  • 7-10 Tbsp salt, pepper, sugar
  • 2 Branches of rosemary
  • 50 g clarified butter
  • 7-10 Tbsp coarse sea salt
  • 1 Bread roll (from the previous day)
  • 750 g mixed mince
  • 1 Egg
  • 4–6 drop of Tabasco
  • 75 g Parmesan (piece)
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Olive oil
  • 2-3 stem(s) flat leaf parsley

Directions

  1. 1

    Cover potatoes with skin and cook in boiling water for about 20 minutes. For the salsa, drain the paprika. Peel and finely dice 1 onion and garlic. Finely dice the paprika. Mix with diced onion, garlic and 4 tbsp. ajvar.

  2. 2

    Season to taste with salt, pepper and sugar.

  3. 3

    Drain the potatoes, rinse with cold water, peel and let them cool down briefly. Preheat oven (electric cooker: 225 °C/circulating air: 200 °C/gas: see manufacturer). Wash rosemary, dab dry, pluck needles and chop finely.

  4. 4

    Melt the clarified butter. Cut the potatoes into thick slices and mix them with rosemary, lard and about 1 teaspoon sea salt. Distribute on a baking tray. Bake in a hot oven for 30-35 minutes.

  5. 5

    Soak the rolls for the meatballs. Peel and chop 1 onion. Knead with minced meat, squeezed out bread roll, 2 teaspoons of ajvar, egg, 1 level teaspoon of salt and Tabasco. Form approx. 8 meatballs from it.

  6. 6

    Finely grate the parmesan. 10-15 minutes before the end of the baking time, when the potatoes have got a crust on the underside, turn once. Then sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.

  7. 7

    Heat the oil in a large frying pan. Fry the meatballs for 6-8 minutes on each side. Wash parsley, shake dry and chop finely. Arrange the meatballs with salsa and parmesan potatoes.

  8. 8

    Sprinkle with parsley.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
820 kcal
CARBS
48 g
FATS
45 g
PROTEINS
50 g