Rice Meatballs with Lemony Thickening
This comes out very delicious. Kids love it.
Servings 4 servings
Calories 250kcal
Ingredients
Meat Balls
- 500 grams ground meat beef, flank
- 30 grams rice
- ½ bunch parsley - about 15 grams chopped
- 1 onion chopped
- 2 garlic cloves chopped
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- ½ teaspoon cumin
- 1 tablespoons flour
To boil
- 1 litre water
- ½ teaspoon salt
Lemon and Egg thickening
- 1 eggs
- 1 teaspoon lemon's juice
- 1 pinch salt
Garnish
- 1 pinch dry mint flakes
- 4 lemon wedges
- 1 pinch fresh ground black pepper
Instructions
Meatballs
- First prepare the meatballs.
- Chop the onion, garlic and the parsley. You can use a food processor.
- The meat should be beef, from the flank part of the beef if possible, with 12% fat.
- Rinse and drain the rice.
- In a mixing bowl add the meat, onion, garlic, parsley, salt, pepper, cumin and rice. Knead until well combined about 5 minutes.
- Meanwhile boil about a litre of water with ½ teaspoon of salt.
- Make small meatballs from the meat and place them on a flat dish or tray. Sprinkle a tablespoons of flour. Make sure all the meatballs are covered with flour.
- When all the meatballs are ready, drop them into the boiling water. Cook until the rice in the meatballs are cooked. You can understand by the looks or by tasting one. Remove from the heat, when the rice is ready.
- While cooking if unpleasent looking bubbles come up, skim and discard them.
Lemon and Egg Thickening
- Separate an egg yolk. Whisk shortly after adding a pinch of salt.
- Then add lemon juice and mix again.
- Then add, while mixing, several spoons of hot water from the meatball pot. After the egg mixture is also warm, slowly add the egg mixture to the main pot, while mixing. Make sure you mix all the time, or else the eggs might get cooked too fast and will create an unpleasent look as if there are white flakes of eggs around the stock. Mix until the egg mixture is well combined. It will take only a minute.
- Serve warm with lemon wedges.
- Garnish with dry mint flakes, additional chopped parsley, fresh ground black pepper.
Notes
If possible cook this dish just before serving.
Follow all the steps of thickening to be successful.