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Meatball Surprise in tomato sauce

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Ingredients for 4 servings:

  • 2 onions
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 1 tbsp parsley, frozen
  • 500 g minced meat, mixed
  • 1 tsp mustard, hot
  • 1 egg yolk
  • n. B. Herb salt and pepper, from the mill
  • 2 tbsp paprika powder, sweet
  • 150 g cherry peppers, filled with cream cheese
  • 2 tbsp rapeseed oil
  • 1 tbsp tomato paste
  • 1 tsp brown sugar
  • 500 g tomatoes, pureed
  • 150 ml vegetable stock

Instructions

Working time approx. 30 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 30 minutes; Total time approx. 1 hour

with cherry peppers, filled with cream cheese

Peel and finely dice the onions. Peel and finely chop the garlic. Knead the ground meat, half of the onions, mustard, salt, pepper, egg yolk, parsley (except for 1 teaspoon for garnish), and paprika thoroughly. Form the ground meat into meatballs, adding a cherry pepper to the center of each. Heat 1 tablespoon of rapeseed oil in a pan and brown the meatballs all over. Sauté the remaining onions and garlic in 1 tablespoon of rapeseed oil. Add the tomato paste. Season with salt, pepper, sugar, and paprika. Add the tomatoes and stock, bring to a boil, and simmer for 20 minutes. Add the remaining cherry peppers to the sauce. Place the meatballs, including the meat bits, in the sauce, sprinkled with parsley and serve. I serve with rice and salad.

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Written by John Myers

Professional Chef with 29 years of industry experience at the highest levels. Restaurant owner. Beverage Director with experience creating world-class nationally recognized cocktail programs. Food writer with a distinctive Chef-driven voice and point of view.

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