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Spanish Meatballs, or Albondigas, are traditionally served at tapas bars in Spain. Whether you serve them for an appetizer, tapas party, or dinner main dish, these small meatballs in a flavorful tomato sauce are perfect for enjoying with a glass of red wine from the Navarra region of Spain. The idea is to flavor the meatballs with fresh mint and then let them simmer in a sweet tomato sauce.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have meatballs (albóndigas) using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Meatballs (Albóndigas):
- Get 2 medium onions
- Get 2 cloves garlic
- Prepare 2 whole cloves
- Get 1 small glass of white wine
- Take 1 little flour
- Get Salt and pepper
- Get 1 Carrot
- Get 1 bayleaf
- Take Tomato puré or tomate frito
- Get Half a stock cube
- Make ready 400 g minced chicken or turkey
- Take 100 g minced bacon
- Take 1 desertspoon pinenuts (optional)
- Take 1 tsp. chopped fresh parsley
- Take 3 desertspoons soya sauce
- Get 2 desertspoons bread crumbs
- Take 1 tsp. oregano
- Make ready Olive oil
- Get 2 small, ripe tomatoes
- Take 1 small cup of peas
Best served with lots of crusty bread to mop up the rich sauce and ice cold drinks on the side. Turn these lamb meatballs into a main meal by serving with rice, potatoes or pasta. Spanish Meatballs Recipe: Pork & Chorizo Albondigas. This albóndiga recipe is for the traditional pork and chorizo meatballs you'll get anywhere in Spain, served in a lightly spiced tomato sauce.
Instructions to make Meatballs (Albóndigas):
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
You can serve them as an appetizer or as a main, or even as part of a tapas board! To make it truly Spanish, go for semi-cured (i.e. uncooked. My recipe for Mexican meatballs, or albondigas Mexicanas, are made with a combination of beef and pork. The meat is then mixed with a variety of seasonings and white rice and then cooked in a tomato-chipotle salsa. The meatballs are cooked in the salsa along with potatoes, carrots, and/or squash.
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