Lamb Meatballs with Yogurt Sauce

  

I woke up this morning with the desire to make some new foods for dinner. I knew we would be watching the Duke Carolina game tonight so I wanted something I could just heat and serve. This picture does not do the lamb meatballs in yogurt sauce any justice. I also make a corn pudding cup with blue cheese and grilled asparagus with romesco sauce. Good flavors from everything.
Here is the recipe for the meatballs
2 lbs ground lamb

1 1/2 cups fresh bread crumbs from good sour dough bread

1/4 cup milk

1/3 c. Toasted pine nuts

1 t. Cinnamon

2 t. Ground coriander

20 fresh mint leaves minced

2 t. Allspice

4 cloves of garlic minced

2 t. Salt

1 t. Black pepper
Put the bread crumbs in a big bowl and mix them with the milk. Add everything except the meat and mix well. Add the meat and gently mix everything together. Roll golf ball sized meatballs.

Heat a nonstick frypan on medium heat and out as many meatballs in the pan as you can without them touching each other. Brown on all sides and take out and set aside. Finish the rest of the meatballs.
Yogurt sauce
1 large sweet onion chopped finely

4 cloves of garlic minced

1 small green chile – seeded and minced

1 bunch of Swiss chard- destemmed and chopped

2 t. Allspice

1 cup chicken stock

Juice of one large lemon

2 cups Greek Yogurt

1 T. Cornstarch

1 beaten egg
In a large stock pot, spray with Pam and add the onions and the garlic and cook on medium heat stirring often for ten minutes. Add chile and Swiss chard and cook for 3 minutes. Add the allspice, chicken stock and lemon juice and bring to a boil and turn the heat off.
In a mixing bowl put the cornstarch with 2 t. Water and stir into a paste. Add the egg and mix together. Add the yogurt and mix well. Add a spoonful of the hot Swiss chard mixture to the yogurt and mix well, add about half the Swiss chard and mix again and add the last of the chard and mix. Return everything to the stock pot. Salt and pepper the mixture. Add the meatballs and gently stir to coat with yogurt sauce.
Heat on medium heat and cover the pan and cook for 30 minutes to cook the meatballs through. Stir gently every ten minutes.  
Serve with some cilantro if you like it.



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