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Lina Guatam's lamb meatball in tomato sauce: Today

Lina Guatam's lamb meatball in tomato sauce: Today
Lina Guatam's lamb meatball in tomato sauce: Today

Ingredients

Serves: 4

  • 600 gm mince lamb
  • 6-8 button mushroom finely chopped
  • 1 medium onion finely chopped
  • ½ red pepper finely chopped
  • 4-5 cloves of garlic crushed or grated
  • 1 cm ginger crushed or grated
  • 1tbsp curry powder
  • 1 tsp salt or to your taste
  • 1-2 fresh chillies finely chopped (opt)
  • 1 tbsp butter
  • 1 tbsp corn starch

For tomato sauce

  • 2 tbsp oil
  • 1 small onion,
  • ½ cup of grated carrot
  • 400gm tin tomato
  • 5-6 fresh tomato finely chopped
  • 4-5 garlic cloves crushed
  • 1 tbsp curry powder
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 tbsp light soya sauce
  • Hand full of fresh coriander chopped

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees
  2. Mix all the above meatball ingredients in one bowl.
  3. Make into golf size ball and place in an oven tray
  4. Cook meatball for about 25 min
  5. When its cooking, start with the sauce
  6. Heat oil in a pot
  7. Add onion, salt and cook until soft
  8. Add both tin and fresh tomatoes, carrot and garlic
  9. Cover and cook for 5-6 min until tomatoes become thick sauce
  10. Once tomato is cooked and becomes a thick sauce add curry powder and soya sauce.
  11. At this stage you can blend to make a smooth sauce
  12. Once sauce is cooked add cooked meatball and cook them together.
  13. Add fresh coriander and serve hot with spaghetti.