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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  African >> Northern Africa >> Moroccan

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. To Make The Meatballs:. | 2. Tear the bread into tiny pieces - to make breadcrumbs. | 3. In a large bowl, mix all of the meatball ingredients. Use your hands to squich the mixture together until it is mixed really well (I usually wear gloves to do this!). | 4. Allow the mixture to stand for 5 minutes then taking a tablespoon at a time, roll into meatballs. | 5. Gently fry them in a little olive oil or sunflower oil, until they are golden on all sides. Drain on kitchen paper & set aside. | 6. To Make The Sauce:. | 7. Fry the onion in a little oil. When it is a pale golden colour, add the spices & cook for a further minute. | 8. Remove the flesh from the preserved lemon. Wash well to remove some of the saltiness then cut very finely. Add the lemon & the rest of the ingredients (except the cilantro & the lemon juice) to the pan. | 9. Cover & simmer for 1 hour. | 10. After an hour, remove the lid. Reduce the sauce until you have just enough to serve the meatballs in - you don't want too much but you don't want to serve dry meatballs either! When the sauce is the right consistency, add the cilantro & lemon juice & cook for a minute. | 11. Sprinkle more finely chopped cilantro over the top & serve. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
chicken	3	cups	ground	-	-	-	-
brown onion	1		grated chopped	-	-	-	-
wholemeal bread	4	slices		-	-	-	-
parsley	3	tablespoons	chopped	4.104	0.7216	0.3386	0.0901
cilantro	3	tablespoons	chopped	0.69	0.1101	0.0639	0.0156
ra el hanout spice mix	2	teaspoons		-	-	-	-
egg	1	beaten		-	-	-	-
salt	1/4	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
black pepper	1	pinch		0.3608	0.0919	0.0149	0.0047
olive oil				-	-	-	-
onion	1		chopped	44.0	10.274000000000001	1.21	0.11
chick pea	400		canned rinsed drained	-	-	-	-
lemon	1/2 - 1		preserved	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
water	2			0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
chicken stock cube	1			-	-	-	-
cilantro	6	tablespoons		0.69	0.1101	0.0639	0.0156
parsley	3	tablespoons		4.104	0.7216	0.3386	0.0901
ra el hanout spice mix	4	teaspoons		-	-	-	-
lemon juice	3	tablespoons		10.065	3.1568	0.1601	0.1098
cayenne	1/8	teaspoon		0.7155	0.1274	0.027000000000000003	0.0389
salt				-	-	-	-
olive oil				-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.