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🍽️ Juicy Meatballs with a Melted Cheese Center

566 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 500 g minced meat
• 1 bread roll (from the day before)
• 1 egg
• 1 tbsp mustard
• salt
• pepper
• 1 onion
• 2 tbsp butter
• 2 tbsp oil
• 2 garlic cloves
• 125 g mozzarella
• 1 onion
• 1 can kidney beans (340 g)
• 1 can corn (approx. 250 g drained weight)
• 1 beefsteak tomato
• lemons
• 0.5 bunch parsley
• sambal oelek

Instructions

1. 1. Soak the bread roll in a quarter liter of lukewarm water.
2. 2. Squeeze the soaked bread roll well with your hands.
3. 3. Mix the squeezed bread with the minced meat, the egg, the mustard, the pepper, and the salt.
4. 4. Peel the onions and the garlic.
5. 5. Finely chop the onions and the garlic.
6. 6. Heat one tablespoon of butter in a pan.
7. 7. Sauté the onion and garlic mixture in it.
8. 8. Fold the fried onion mixture into the meat dough.
9. 9. Wet your hands with a little water.
10. 10. Divide the meat dough into eight equal portions.
11. 11. Press one portion of meat dough into a ball.
12. 12. Flatten the ball into a flat disc.
13. 13. Place a piece of mozzarella in the center of the meat disc.
14. 14. Close the meat dough around the cheese.
15. 15. Shape the meatball back into a round form.
16. 16. Repeat this with all meat portions.
17. 17. Heat the remaining butter and oil in a large pan.
18. 18. Fry the meatballs in batches.
19. 19. Fry each side of the meatballs for five minutes.
20. 20. Remove the finished meatballs from the pan.
21. 21. Peel the onion for the salsa.
22. 22. Dice the onion finely.
23. 23. Drain the kidney beans into a sieve.
24. 24. Rinse the kidney beans cold.
25. 25. Let the kidney beans drain.
26. 26. Let the corn drain as well.
27. 27. Blanch the plum tomato briefly in boiling water.
28. 28. Shock the tomato cold.
29. 29. Peel the skin off the tomato.
30. 30. Cut out the stem base from the tomato.
31. 31. Cut the fruit flesh of the tomato into pieces.
32. 32. Wash the parsley.
33. 33. Shake the parsley dry.
34. 34. Finely chop the parsley.
35. 35. Mix all salsa ingredients in a bowl.
36. 36. Season the salsa with sambal oelek.
37. 37. Let the salsa infuse for at least thirty minutes.
38. 38. Serve the meatballs with the salsa.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 566
• Protein: 36 g · Fett/Fat: 39 g · Carbs: 20 g