Meatballs and mushrooms

Ingredients
- meatballs: minced beef 200gr, 1 egg, breadcrumbs 75gr, fish sauce 2 tbsp, pepper, salt, paprika powder 1 tsp, chili flakes 3 tsp, sunflower oil 2 tbsp
- dish: mushrooms 200gr, 1 medium sized onion, fresh ginger 2cm, 1 red chili pepper, fish sauce 2 tbsp, garlic 2 cloves, coconut milk 25cl, turmeric 2tsp, 1 lime, sunflower oil 2 tbsp, beef or vegetable stock 15cl
- Vegetarian: vegetarian meatballs

Meatballs; mix all ingredients well. Make small meatballs. Heath a frying pan add oil. Fry the meatballs until they are almost ready.
Take a large frying pan. Heath add oil and finely chopped onion, chili and ginger. Fry for a few minutes and add the sliced mushrooms. De-glaze the frying pan with the stock. After about 5 minutes add the coconut milk and bring to the boil. Cook for a few minutes and add your chopped garlic, fish sauce and turmeric. Add the meatballs. Turn down the heat and let it simmer on a low fire until it thickens. Add some lime juice to your taste.
Serve with rice or naan bread.
For a vegetarian meal, use vegetarian meatballs and -stock.

recipes: Spicy meatballs

Ingredients: minced meat (beef) 400 gr, 1 egg, breadcrumbs 70 gr, sambal oelek 2 tbsp, dark soy sauce 2 tbsp, fish sauce 2 tbsp, 2 shallots, pepper & salt, parsley. butter

 

Chop the shallots very fine and fry them in a little butter until soft. Leave them to cool down.

Chop the parsley fine, you will need about 4 tbsp. Add all the ingredients (except the butter) in a bowl and mix well. Easy on the salt because the fish sauce is already salty.  Roll small meatballs and fry in butter. Serve as a snack with dip sauce (sweet chili sauce, peanut sauce, ...) or use in a dish.