meatballs diablo
This recipe was scaled down from a bulk recipe. We didn't use all the sauce just to add taste.
prep time
cook time
method
Stove Top
yield
24 MEAT BALLS
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons bacon drippings
- 1 small sweet onion
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1/2 pound ground pork
- 3 - egg
- 3 dashes tabasco or to taste
- 1/2 cup bread crumbs
- 1/2 tablespoon cumin
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 tablespoon italian parsley, chopped fresh
- - cooking oil
- 1/2 - red bell pepper
- 1/2 - yellow bell pepper
- 1/2 - green bell pepper
- 3 tablespoons red wine
- RED CHILE SAUCE:
- 1 - habanero pepper, fresh
- 1 - jalapeno peppers
- 1 - pasilla pepper
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons ap flour
- 1 1/2 cups beef broth
- 1/4 cup red wine
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 tablespoon ground new mexico red chile
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 4 teaspoons soy sauce
- 1 1/2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1/2 - lime, squeezed
How To Make meatballs diablo
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Step 1Heat the bacon drippings or oil in a frying pan, and cook the onion until soft.
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Step 2Mix together the ground beef and ground pork in a mixing bowl and stir in the onions.
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Step 3Lightly beat the eggs and add to the meat mixture. Stir in the Tabasco, bread crumbs, cumin, garlic, nutmeg, and parsley and form into balls approximately the size of walnuts.
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Step 4Pan Fry the meatballs in the cooking oil over medium heat until well browned and done through. Add the peppers and cook till tender glazed with the red wine
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Step 5Red Chile Sauce: Roast the habanero, pasilla and jalapeno peppers over an open flame until they are charred on the outside. Remove from the heat and cool slightly place in plastic bag. Remove the stems and the seeds. Remove the stems and seeds from the pasilla pepper as well. Set aside.
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Step 6Melt the butter, stir in the flour and stir constantly, letting the flour brown slightly. Slowly stir in the beef stock and wine. Stir until the sauce starts to thicken, then turn down the heat to simmer. Stir in the garlic, chile, salt and pepper. Let cook over low heat, until just heated through.
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Step 7Puree in a food processor or blender until it is smooth. You can adjust the levels of peppers and chili powders to make the sauce hotter or milder to your liking. We love it hot! Use 1 to 2 ladles of sauce over the meatballs more or less it is up to you. -
Step 8Place meatballs, peppers and Red Chile Sauce and serve with rice.
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