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Pip's great ball's of fire
Well I made herb and chilli meat balls with mash potato and asparagus which is so easy to make. I also made some NAAN style bread (not the same way it's traditionally made) with home made garlic butter on top......Oh it was so good.
Naan bread recipe:
1lb white flour
1oz dried yeast
1 tsp nigella seed (also known in Indian stores as charnushka or kanolfi seed)
6 tbsp plain yogurt
2 tbsp ghee or melted butter
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
3/4 cup warm water
oil or ghee to coat
1. Dissolve sugar in warm water.
2. Add yeast. Yeast should froth, if it doesn't, start over with fresh yeast.
3. In a seperate bowl, sift salt with flour and add nigella seeds.
4. Make a well in the centre and add yoghurt, ghee and yeast mixture.
5. Knead well until it forms a dough. Shape into a ball. If dough is sticky, add more flour until elastic.
6. Coat a seperate bowl with oil or ghee and roll dough into it until fully coated.
7. Shake off excess oil and cover with damp tea-towel or cloth.
8. After 2 or 3 hours, dough should have doubled in size. This happens best in a warm area (my granny used to put hers on the mantlepiece above her fire!)
9. Knead the dough and divide into around 6 equal portions. Flatten and mould into typical 'pear' shape naan.
10. Preheat oven to 450F/230C and bake for 10 mins. Brush with ghee or butter and serve.
I halved the recipe and made 2 large NAAN breads, one with the home made garlic butter and one was plain. They turned out so good....Not as soft as I was hoping but still great.
Now......The main attraction!!
Meat balls are usually just a bit of this and a dash of that...
Meat balls:
750gr of lean mince beef
2 eggs
1/2 cup of sour cream
1 cup of breadcrumbs
1/2 tbls of fresh garlic
1 tsp of smoked paprika
1 tsp of ground corriander seeds
1 tsp of cracked pepper corns
1/8 cup of sweet marjoram
1/8 cup of diced oregano
1 Bhut
Sauce:
1 large tin of crushed tomatoes
1 tin of tomato soup concentrate
2 cups of water
1/2 cup of sweet basil
1 red onion sliced
3 large mushrooms sliced
some dash of tomato based chilli sauce
Put the meat balls in the sauce and simmer on low heat for 45 minutes.
potato was cut into 1/4's and simmered on low boil with salt for 30 minutes. water was drained then butter, cream and milk is added and it's mashed......
and that is that...... I loved it and the heat was nice and high without killing the flavour..
