tex-mex porcupine meatballs

Ingredients For tex-mex porcupine meatballs

• 1 lb

  ground beef
• 1 lb

  ground lamb or ground pork (i used lamb)
• 1 sm

  onion, finely minced (i used white onion)
• 2 clove

  garlic, peeled and minced
• 2/3 c

  cooked texmati rice (you can sub: with brown texmati, indian basmati or long grain white rice)
• 1 tsp

  cumin seeds, crushed to release oils (or 1 teaspoon ground cumin in original recipe)
• 1 tsp

  dried mexican oregano or 1 tablespoon fresh oregano, finely minced
• 1/4 tsp

  ground cinnamon
• 1/4-1/3 c

  fresh mint, finely minced
• 1-2

  chilies in adobo (if you don't have chilies in adobo use 1-2 tablespoons tabasco chipotle sauce)
• 2 tsp

  kosher salt
• 1/4 tsp

  ground black pepper