Baked Lamb Albóndigas with Tomato Capsicum Sauce

Baked Lamb Albóndigas with Tomato Capsicum Sauce

Ready in 50 minutes • Serves 4
This dish most recently appeared in Fresh Start (5 Nights For 4) on Sunday, June 10, 2018.
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Ingredients

ALBÓNDIGAS

  • 500g lean ground lamb
  • ½ brown onion, finely diced
  • ½ carrot, grated
  • 1 Tbsp lamb spice mix
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 Tbsp chopped parsley
  • 1 tsp oil or spray oil

SAUCE

  • 1 tsp oil or spray oil
  • ½ brown onion, finely diced
  • ½ carrot, grated
  • 1 Tbsp Spanish herb mix
  • Pinch of chilli flakes/powder or cayenne powder (optional)
  • 100g roasted red capsicum, roughly chopped
  • ½ cauliflower, diced 1-2cm
  • 1 can adzuki beans, drained and rinsed
  • 1½ Tbsp tomato paste
  • 1 can chopped tomatoes
  • 1 cup chicken or beef stock
  • 1 tsp salt
  • ½ tsp honey
  • 1 Tbsp balsamic vinegar

TO SERVE

  • 50g feta cheese, crumbled
  • 2 Tbsp chopped parsley

Steps

  1. Preheat oven and preheat a large casserole/ lasagne-style dish to 220ºC.
  2. To serve, spoon albóndigas with sauce into bowls. Top with feta and parsley.
  3. Prep albóndigas. Combine all albóndigas ingredients (except oil) in a large bowl and mix well. Dampen hands and shape into golf ballsized balls. Set aside on a plate or tray.
  4. Prep sauce veggies.
  5. Cook sauce. Heat oil in a large fry-pan (with a lid) on medium-high heat. Cook onion for 2-3 minutes, until softened. Add carrot and Spanish herb mix and cook, stirring, for a further 1 minute.
  6. Add all remaining sauce ingredients (except vinegar), stir, cover and bring to a simmer. Reduce heat to medium to cook for 5 minutes.
  7. Cook meatballs. Carefully remove preheated dish from oven and add oil. Add meatballs to dish and bake for 10 minutes.
  8. Finish sauce. Remove lid and cook for a further 4-5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until thickened slightly. Stir through vinegar and season.
  9. Finish meatballs. After 10 minutes, remove meatballs from oven and spoon sauce over meatballs to cover. Bake a further 8-10 minutes, until meatballs are cooked through.
  10. Prep garnishes.

Nutritional Information

Energy 1524 kj
364 kcal
Protein 35.7g
Carbohydrate 26.9g
Fat 11.9g