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betty's spanish meatballs with spicy sausage

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Recipe by
Betty Bramanis
@RecipesandSmallTalk
Sydney

Meatballs in a thick Spanish style tomato sauce, spicy chorizo sausages and chickpeas (garbanzo beans). A rich, fragrant meal perfect for chilly nights if served with mashed potatoes OR perfect on warm nights with a large green salad. Best made ahead of time by a day or two.

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yield 6 -8
prep time 20 Min
cook time 1 Hr 15 Min
method Stove Top

Ingredients For betty's spanish meatballs with spicy sausage

  • 1 onion, finely chopped
  • 3 teaspoons minced garlic
  • 1 egg
  • 1 1/2 pounds/700g minced (ground) pork or beef (or a mix of both)
  • 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
  • 1 teaspoon ground roasted fennel seeds
  • 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • TOMATO SAUCE
  • 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 3 chorizo sausages, casings removed and chopped into "coins"
  • 1 onion, finely chopped
  • 2 teaspoons minced garlic
  • 1 large carrot, diced as fine as you can
  • 2 x tins tomatoes plus a little water to get every thing out of the can
  • 1 1/3 cup red wine
  • 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
  • 3 bay leaves
  • 1 bottle passata (tomato sauce)
  • 1 tin chickpeas/garbanzo beans - rinsed

How To Make betty's spanish meatballs with spicy sausage

  • 1
    Make the meatballs first - combine everything in a large bowl and mix well. Form into meatballs about the size of a walnut.
  • 2
    Heat the oil in a large sauce pan. Fry the sausages and remove when golden brown and fragrant. Remove from the pan, leave all the fat and oil.
  • 3
    Fry the onion and carrot over a medium heat in the same pan. Add the garlic. Add in all the other sauce ingredients EXCEPT the beans.
  • 4
    Carefully add in the meatballs and simmer over a low heat for an hour. Stir carefully now and then.
  • 5
    Add the rinsed beans and continue to cook for a further 5 minutes. Serve.
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