As promised last week, I wanted to share the recipes that I used for the Before Baby Party. These recipes are stashed away in my special recipe book of recipes I love and cherish. The other recipes in my life? They’re kept in a box with other stray recipes, perhaps one day they’ll graduate to the book… if they can prove themselves in yumminess.
So, I’ve made these meatballs too many times to count… but the truth is I hadn’t tasted them myself until the recent party. Why? Well, I usually make so many things and I used to have such a sweet tooth that I indulged in those. But everyone else raved about these and begged me to make them time and time again. I checked what everyone liked best from all the food I made {yes, I’m that annoying person!} and again it was the meatballs.
Ingredients
750g combined pork and veal mince
1 cup dried breadcrumbs
1/4 cup milk
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1/4 cup chopped parsley
1 1/2 tsp ground coriander
1 tsp cayenne pepper
Salt & pepper
Olive oil, for cooking
Method
♥ Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
♥ Combine all ingredients. Roll mix into small balls. You want to make them small enough that you could eat them in one mouthful.
♥ Cook meatballs in a frying pan, over medium heat, in a little oil for 3-4 minutes {turning over at the 2 minute mark} – until brown on the outside.
♥ If you’re trying to be organised, you can do up to this point the day/night before. Just store them in a container in the fridge until you’re ready to finish cooking them in the oven for the party.
♥ Transfer meatballs to the oven tray. Bake for 10 minutes.
Dipping sauce: Combine some whole egg mayonnaise, a clove of crushed garlic and a squeeze of lemon for the dipping sauce. Or if you know of a really good aioli, use that.
YUM. The garlic mayo dipping sauce had me at hello đŸ™‚
they look delish!
You have solved my dilemma of what to take to a class picnic tomorrow. These look yummy! I keep all of my favourite family recipes at plate4eight.com. My husband put it together for me because I was sick of hunting through stray pieces of paper trying to find a recipe before dinner time.
Oh maybe ease up on the cayenne. Don’t want to blow the kids lids off!
These look great – would love to try! I used to keep my recipes in folders but now I keep them on my blog which is so much more convenient, especially when I’m at the supermarket and can’t remember the ingredients!
How good is it? I do that often too.
I have a lot floating around in a plastic sleeve in one of my kitchen drawers. Others are in a refillable folder which keeps expanding. Love the look of theses will have to try them soon.
Yummm! On the list for my daughter’s birthday party for sure. Thanks Chantelle!
I use Evernote to clip my my recipes straight from websites…it’s great because even if you’re not super organized in filing your `notes’ away, you can still search text in any note, even scanned notes…which comes in handy when Mum rocks it old school and gives me a hand written recipe! Having said that, my `recipes to make’ evernote file has over 300 ready & waiting…I may have issues with clipping too many!
But I’m always posting my fave dessert recipes on my blog so that’s another way of keeping track…added bonus is I get a photo to go with the recipe that way too đŸ™‚