These meatballs are very easy and lovely served with the Spinach Rice recipe I gave you last week.
There are so many options for these meatballs:
- top the meatballs with some crumbled feta cheese.
- use the meatball recipe as a burger patty and grill on BBQ/frying pan.
- make small meatballs for finger food.
- bake meatballs in the oven with or without the sauce on the side.
- while meatballs are cooking in the Varoma you can steam bite size vegetables of choice in the simmering basket at the same time.
- If you are only cooking for a couple of people you can place the meatballs on a tray lined with baking paper and place them in the freezer. When they are frozen store in a sealed container to have on hand for another meal.
Thermomix Lamb Meatballs in Spicy Tomato Sauce - ThermoFun - Week 37
Ingredients
Meatballs
- 1 slice bread, torn into quarters
- small handful fresh mint leaves
- small handful fresh parsley
- 1 small onion, peeled and halved
- 2 garlic cloves, peeled
- 500g lamb mince
- 1 egg
- 10g TM vegetable stock concentrate
- 1 teaspoon oregano dried
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon, ground
- ¼ teaspoon pepper, to taste
Spicy Tomato Sauce
- 2 garlic cloves, peeled
- 1 onion, peeled and halved
- 20g olive oil
- 2 x 400g cans diced tomatoes
- 60g white wine
- 20g TM vegetable stock concentrate
- 20g ThermoFun Tomato Paste
- ½ lemon, zest only - using microplane or grater
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon oregano, dried
- ¼ teaspoon chilli powder, or to taste
- ¼ teaspoon pepper, or to taste
- parsley chopped, for garnish
Instructions
Meatballs
- Place bread, mint and parsley, onion and garlic into TM bowl and chop 5 sec / speed 5. Scrape down.
- Add remaining meatball ingredients and mix 10 sec / speed 5 / Reverse. Scrape down and repeat.
- Form the mixture into golf ball sized meatballs and place on both levels of Varoma (deep dish and tray) and set aside.
No need to wash TM bowl. - Tip: when rolling them, have wet hands - just a bowl of water on the bench and dip your hands in after every couple of balls.
Spicy Tomato Sauce
- Place garlic, onion and oil into TM bowl and chop 3 sec / speed 5.
- Scrape down and sauté 5 mins / Varoma / speed 2 / MC off.
- Add remaining sauce ingredients except parsley.
- Place assembled Varoma containing meatballs on top of TM lid and cook 23 mins / Varoma / speed 1 or until cooked. NB: Cooking time will vary with size of meatballs.
- To serve: place meatballs onto plate, pour sauce over the top and garnish with parsley.
Notes
There are so many options for these meatballs:
• top the meatballs with some crumbled feta cheese.
• use the meatball recipe as a burger patty and grill on BBQ/frying pan.
• make small meatballs for finger food.
• bake meatballs in the oven with or without the sauce on the side.
• while meatballs are cooking in the Varoma you can steam bite size
vegetables of choice in the simmering basket at the same time.
• If you are only cooking for a couple of people you can place the meatballs
on a tray lined with baking paper and place them in the freezer. When they
are frozen store in a sealed container to have on hand for another meal.
If you have enjoyed this recipe then please consider leaving a comment. It’s always refreshing to see comments from people that have tried a recipe and found it a success or tweaked it to suit.
Marion says
These were delicious. . Sauce a bit runny so used some cornflour to thicken a bit - maybe because I used home grown tomatoes instead of tinned. served over fettucine and zucchini noodles. The sauce would be great as a base for prawn sagenaki with fetta also.
thermofun says
Thank you Marion. Pleased you enjoyed it. :)
Fjane says
YUM. These are delicious and so easy!! They are on a regular rotation at my place. I use a tbs of gf flour in place of the bread. Any leftovers make for lovely lunch the next day too. Thank you for creating such great recipe :)
thermofun says
Thank you :)
Sarah says
Tasty meal. The meatballs held their shape in the varoma
thermofun says
Glad to hear Sarah :)