tex-mex porcupine meatballs

Ingredients

• 1 pound ground beef
• 1 pound ground lamb or ground pork (i used lamb)
• 1 small onion, finely minced (i used white onion)
• 2 cloves garlic, peeled and minced
• 2/3 cup cooked texmati rice (you can sub: with brown texmati, indian basmati or long grain white rice)
• 1 teaspoon cumin seeds, crushed to release oils (or 1 teaspoon ground cumin in original recipe)
• 1 teaspoon dried mexican oregano or 1 tablespoon fresh oregano, finely minced
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4-1/3 cup 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 teaspoons kosher salt
• 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper