Meat Balls

Method

• 1)

  If you are making your own sauce, put a good glug of olive oil in a saucepan, place tomatoes in saucepan, cook with lid on for 1 hour, then mash the tomatoes and allow to cook and reduce with lid off for a further 30 minutes.

• 2)

  Preheat oven to 260C with baking dish inside.

• 3)

  Finely chop red onion and sweat down onion on low heat with some olive oil for approximately 5 minutes..

• 4)

  Chop rosemary and thyme.

• 5)

  In a blender add the macadamias, a good pinch of salt and half of the chopped herbs. Turn the mix into breadcrumbs.

• 6)

  Add other half of herb mix with optional chilli to onion.

• 7)

  Let the herbs cook for approximately 1 minute then add red wine, turn up the heat and allow the wine to evaporate for approximately 5 minutes.

• 8)

  Add paprika

• 9)

  Once wine has reduced add 2L of tomato sauce to pot with onions. Leave the sauce to simmer on a low heat while your prep your meatballs.

• 10)

  Mix together your pork and beef mince with your macadamia crumb.

• 11)

  Add an egg and mix together

• 12)

  Roll balls and put in baking dish

• 13)

  Pour the tomato sauce over the top.

• 14)

  Put in the oven for 20 minutes

• 15)

  While they cook, make your salad by finely shopping cavelo nero and top with grated goats cheese or parmesan and juice of half a lemon.

• 16)

  Once balls are ready, serve them (we did 3 per person) and top with some cracked pepper, pinch of salt, grated cheese, chilli flakes (optional) and squeeze of lemon.