So there are two recipes today: my own home minced meatballs and some chocolate filling that I used in my disastrous first attempt at chocolate making.
Meatballs rock, bacon meatballs rock more.
Having a mincer is awesome!
Ingredients for meatballs:
- 500g pork
- 200g bacon
- 100g flour
- 2 eggs
- BBQ mix: 1tsp worcestire sauce, 1tsp soy sauce, 1tsp smoked paprika, chopped spring onions, 2tsp garlic paste, 1tsp salt, 1tbsp pepper
Ingredients for sauce:
- 1.5tbsp garlic
- 1tbsp basil
- 1tsp mustard
- 1tsp smoked paprika
- 400g tomato passata
- 300g broad beans
- 200g spinach
- salt and pepper to taste
Utensils:
- mincer
- chopping board and knife
- pan
Recipe:
- Put the meats through the mincer. Mix in the other meatball ingredients and rest.
- Roll your meatballs as you heat some butter in a pan.
- Pan fry the meatballs on all sides to seal them. Put aside as they seal.
- Add the basil, garlic, mustard and paprika to the butter and stir into a paste.
- Reintroduce the meatballs. Pour passata on top. Allow to simmer.
- When the meatballs are cooked through, add the beans and spinach, turn off the heat and cover. Leave to finish in its own heat.
- Serve over pasta, gnocchi or noodles.
Filling for chocolates, or for angrily licking off the spoon when your chocolates fall apart.
A friend has taken a course in chocolate making and is great at it. I’ve been watching a bit from the sidelines and bought myself a chocolate mould the other day, to give it a go. So my first attempt at chocolates looked like this.
The second attempt went a bit better.
But the filling is DELICIOUS.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup rhubarb
- 1 cup mango
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup icing sugar
Utensils:
- chopping board and knife
- pot and wooden spoon
- blender
Recipe:
- Clean, peel and chop the rhubarb and mango. Put in the pot on a low heat
- Once softened through, add the white sugar, keep heating and stirring, as though you were making jam.
- Add the icing sugar slowly and stir in. Take off the heat and leave to rest.
- Blend everything together. There should not be many lumps left anyway.
I put this in some white chocolates with walnut and some dark chocolates with a bit of brazil in the centre. 😀
TTFN and Happy Hunting!