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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Middle Eastern >> Rest Middle Eastern

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Sauce: | 2. Heat the oil in an oven proof pan over a medium heat, add the onion and garlic and cook until just beginning to turn golden at the edges. | 3. Add the passata cinnamon sugar and bay leaves and season bring to the boil. | 4. Reduce heat and simmer gently for 10 minutes. | 5. Meatballs: | 6. Preheat oven to 200c/400f/gas mark 6. | 7. Soak the bread in milk and gently squeeze out until dry. | 8. Whiz the onion and garlic in a food processor with the cumin and ground coriander, add the lamb fresh coriander lemon zest bread and beaten egg and season with salt and plenty of pepper. Mix again until well combined. | 9. Using wet hands roll the lamb mixture into 24 walnut sized balls. | 10. Heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a large frying pan and add half the meatballs, fry over a medium high heat until brown all over | 11. Remove from the pan with a slotted spoon and fry the remaining meatballs adding more oil if needed. | 12. Add all of the meatballs into the tomato sauce and place on the middle shelf of the oven for 20 to 25 minutes while you prepare the couscous. | 13. Cous cous: | 14. Bring 400ml salted water to the boil in a medium sauce pan. Add the couscous and stir well then cover with a lid remove from the heat and leave for 5 minutes. | 15. Fluff the couscous with a fork and then add lemon juice oil raisins and pine nuts. Season, scatter with the parsley and serve immediately with the meatballs in tomato sauce. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
white bread	4			-	-	-	-
milk				-	-	-	-
onion	1		chopped	64.0	14.944	1.76	0.16
garlic clove	2		chopped	-	-	-	-
cumin	1	table	ground	-	-	-	-
coriander	1	teaspoon	ground	5.364	0.9898	0.2227	0.3199
lamb	500	g	ground	1335.0	0.0	84.4	107.95
coriander	2	tablespoons	chopped	0.46	0.0734	0.0426	0.0104
lemon zest	1/2		grated unwaxed	-	-	-	-
egg	1		beaten	62.92	0.3168	5.5264	4.1844
olive oil	1	tablespoon		119.34	0.0	0.0	13.5
pepper			ground	-	-	-	-
pepper			ground	-	-	-	-
olive oil	1	tablespoon		119.34	0.0	0.0	13.5
onion	1		chopped	64.0	14.944	1.76	0.16
garlic clove	1		chopped	-	-	-	-
passata		jar		-	-	-	-
cinnamon	1			-	-	-	-
caster sugar	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
bay leaf	2			-	-	-	-
couscous	250			162620.0	33488.475	5518.7	276.8
lemon	1/2			0.6404	0.2058	0.0243	0.0066
olive oil	2	tablespoons		119.34	0.0	0.0	13.5
raisin	50			24915.0	6560.4	279.675	37.95
pine nut	50		toasted	45427.5	882.9	924.075	4614.975
flat leaf parsley	1	tablespoon	chopped	-	-	-	-

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