A spicy meatball with chipotle braised in a stock with beer
Prep Time 15 minutesmins
Cook Time 30 minutesmins
Total Time 45 minutesmins
Servings 4
Ingredients
For the meatball:
500grminced meat50/50 pork beef
3chipotle peppers inAdobo saucefinely sliced
1tbspsambal
15grparsley
1/2onionfinely sliced
1old slice of breador ready made breadcrumb
2tbspPankoJapanese breadcrumb
1tbspketchup
1egg
Pepper
Salt
Some butter for cooking the meatballs
Voor de cooking juice
1/2litervealstock
bottle or can of good beerbest choice is a beer with an alc % of 8-10, and try to get a bottle or can with 1/2 liter
Optional for the Dudey Daredevils among us:
1finely sliced bird pepperdeseeded
Instructions
Put the parsley and old bread in the stickblender or foodprocessor and blitz until you got a nice green crumb
Mix this crumb together with all the other ingredients for the meatball and divide evenly into four meatballs. The Daredevils throw in the finely sliced Bird pepper too
Melt the butter in a big fryingpan and sear the meatballs brown on all sides
Add the vealstock and a nice spalsh of beer to the pan and cook the meatballs for about 20 minutes under a closed lid. Pour the remaining beer in a glass an leave it on the kitchencounter
Turn the meatballs every five minutes and close the lid again. Every time you finish turning the meatballs take a swig of the beer
When meatballs are ready (the feel firm when you press them with the flat of a fork), take them out of the juice and let them rest briefly on tinfoil
Serve this meatball with some baked potatoes, cooked vegetables and a spoon of the cookingjuice.