FOOD
Trapped Meatballs
Listen to your mummy, these meatballs are delicious!
FOOD
Trapped Meatballs
Listen to your mummy, these meatballs are delicious!
Ingredients
- Meatballs:
- ½ pound ground beef
- 1 onion, diced
- 1 egg
- 2 cloves of garlic, thinly chopped
- 1 tablespoon paprika
- 1 tablespoon fresh parsley, chopped
- 2 teaspoons salt
- Black pepper, to taste
- ¼ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 box puff pastry sheets
- Olive oil, for cooking
- 8 slices of black olive
- Sauce:
- 3 cups tomato purée
- 1 red chili, diced
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons barbecue sauce
- 2 tablespoons ketchup
- 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 4 teaspoons cornstarch
Steps
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large mixing bowl, add the ground meat, onion, garlic, paprika, parsley, egg, salt, and pepper. Mix together, then add flour and combine well.
- By hand, roll the mixture into meatballs.
- In a frying pan, add olive oil and meatballs. Cook until they are golden on all sides. Allow to cool.
- Once cool, place 3 meatballs on a brochette stick.
- In a baking pan, grease with olive oil and place the meatball skewers. Drizzle with olive oil.
- Place in the oven for 30 minutes.
- In a saucepan, add the tomato purée, red chili, brown sugar, barbecue sauce, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce and combine together. Add cornstarch to thicken the sauce, and mix well.
- Bring to a boil, about 5 minutes.
- Next, cut the puff pastry sheets into long, thin strips and wrap around the meatballs like a mummy.
- Cut olives in half, place 2 halves to form eyes on the “mummy”.
- In a dish, place the “mummies” and top with the sauce.