How to Make Meatballs (Albóndigas)

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The idea is to flavor the meatballs with fresh mint and then let them simmer in a sweet tomato sauce. This tomato-mint combo doesn't make many appearances in Mexican cuisine, but it's surprisingly refreshing so don't let its rarity scare you off. Authentic albondigas are a quick and popular tapas dish that can also work well as a mid-week meal for all the family served with rice or pasta.

Recipe of Meatballs (Albóndigas)

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have meatballs (albóndigas) using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Meatballs (Albóndigas):

1. Take 2 medium onions
2. Make ready 2 cloves garlic
3. Get 2 whole cloves
4. Make ready 1 small glass of white wine
5. Make ready 1 little flour
6. Take Salt and pepper
7. Take 1 Carrot
8. Make ready 1 bayleaf
9. Make ready Tomato puré or tomate frito
10. Prepare Half a stock cube
11. Take 400 g minced chicken or turkey
12. Prepare 100 g minced bacon
13. Get 1 desertspoon pinenuts (optional)
14. Take 1 tsp. chopped fresh parsley
15. Prepare 3 desertspoons soya sauce
16. Make ready 2 desertspoons bread crumbs
17. Take 1 tsp. oregano
18. Take Olive oil
19. Prepare 2 small, ripe tomatoes
20. Prepare 1 small cup of peas

Albóndigas, meatballs made in the Mexico City style, get rolled and then dropped into a pot of tomato sauce seasoned with chipotle. The large pot simmering behind the albóndigas has a green mole in it. Isabel makes it herself every day, crushing pumpkin seeds with herbs, fresh greens, and serrano chiles and slowly cooking pork in the thick. According to our trusty friends at Wikipedia, "Albóndigas are thought to have originated as a Berber or Arab dish imported to Spain during the period of Muslim rule.

Instructions

Steps to make Meatballs (Albóndigas):

1. Mix the minced chicken or turkey with the minced bacon. Grate one onion and chop or crush one clove of garlic. Add the grated onion, chopped garlic, soya sauce, oregano, pinenuts and breadcrumbs to the meat, and mix all ingredients together very very well.
2. Make small balls with the mixture - about the size of a large marble. Coat them lightly in the flour (get a bowl, put some flour in and roll each ball around) and put all the balls on a large plate until you are ready to fry them.
3. Now make the sauce. Cut up the other onion and chop the other garlic, and put both of them in a non-stick pan with a little olive oil, the fresh parsley and some salt and pepper. Fry gently until they are soft, and then chop the 2 tomatoes and add them. Finally grate the carrot and add that too. Add the white wine and the cloves, half a stock cube dissolved in half a cup of water, the peas, a bayleaf and a bit of tomato puré (or tomate frito if you live in Spain). Stir well and put on a low heat.
4. Put some olive oil in a non-stick frying pan, enough to cover the bottom of the pan, and fry the meatballs until they are brown all over. You don't have to use lots of oil - turn them over so that they cook on all sides, and make sure the heat isn't too strong, otherwise they might burn. You will probably need to fry them in two or three batches, depending on the size of your frying pan. As each batch is ready, put the meatballs straight into the pan with the sauce and when they are all done and in the pan, leave them to simmer in the sauce for about half an hour.
5. You can serve the meatballs on their own as a tapas dish, or as a main course accompanied by a green leafy salad and/or a red pepper salad.

Spanish albóndigas can be served as an appetizer or main course, often in a tomato sauce. Spanish meatballs, "albondigas", make an authentic addition to a tapas selection. Alternatively, serve as a main course. This is a OK meatball soup. But as I am mexican and being raised on mexican food, thats all I can really say about this soup.

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