Wanted to try something 'every day'-food but with a twist. Decided to go for beetroot meatballs and these turned out very nicely!
Beetroot meatballs - oven baked
- Served with mashed cauliflower/Yam Mash
- Boil 3 small beetroots (peeled), and be careful as they are pretty messy and you don't want the colour to stick everywhere! Stay in one place while peeling! :)
- Chop 1 onion and 3-4 garlic cloves straight into a food processor
- Add approx 300-400grams of raw minced meat
- Add 3 eggs
- Cut the boiled beetroots into three/four pieces and add in.
- Season with salt, black and white pepper and if you have fresh parsley add it in too
- Mix everything with the food processor. The mixture should not be too mushy so keep an eye on the food processor, it mixes it really fast!
- With washed hands take a small portion and shape into a small ball and place it onto a try covered with Non-Stick Baking Paper.
- Bake at 375 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes
For the Cauliflower and Yam mash (my first time to cook yam)
- Boil separately as yam will take much longer to boil
- Ensure you are not boiling yam in too big pieces as it will take longer
- Once Yam is boiled too, mix together and mash
This was a new taste for us, my hubby liked it. I recon it was better on the next day (luckily cooked enough tonight to have leftovers for next days lunch)
Important! As breadcrumbs cannot be used, ensure you don't pack the tray too full as the meatballs might let a bit of liquid out while in the oven (as the beetroot is bit watery). But don't panic if that happens, at least for me it happened but the liquid stayed around the meatball and dried out there, hence easy to move after the meatballs are ready :)
I place another tray underneath the tray just in case though to catch any (all stayed on top luckily as dried fast)
Not sure how these would have turned out if fried?! I felt lazy after work so oven was the easy option :)
Ready to go to the oven!
Beetroot meatballs - oven baked
- Served with mashed cauliflower/Yam Mash
- Boil 3 small beetroots (peeled), and be careful as they are pretty messy and you don't want the colour to stick everywhere! Stay in one place while peeling! :)
- Chop 1 onion and 3-4 garlic cloves straight into a food processor
- Add approx 300-400grams of raw minced meat
- Add 3 eggs
- Cut the boiled beetroots into three/four pieces and add in.
- Season with salt, black and white pepper and if you have fresh parsley add it in too
- Mix everything with the food processor. The mixture should not be too mushy so keep an eye on the food processor, it mixes it really fast!
- With washed hands take a small portion and shape into a small ball and place it onto a try covered with Non-Stick Baking Paper.
- Bake at 375 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes
For the Cauliflower and Yam mash (my first time to cook yam)
- Boil separately as yam will take much longer to boil
- Ensure you are not boiling yam in too big pieces as it will take longer
- Once Yam is boiled too, mix together and mash
This was a new taste for us, my hubby liked it. I recon it was better on the next day (luckily cooked enough tonight to have leftovers for next days lunch)
Important! As breadcrumbs cannot be used, ensure you don't pack the tray too full as the meatballs might let a bit of liquid out while in the oven (as the beetroot is bit watery). But don't panic if that happens, at least for me it happened but the liquid stayed around the meatball and dried out there, hence easy to move after the meatballs are ready :)
I place another tray underneath the tray just in case though to catch any (all stayed on top luckily as dried fast)
Not sure how these would have turned out if fried?! I felt lazy after work so oven was the easy option :)
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