Moroccan Style Meatballs

Ingredients

• half an onion, roughly chopped
• 2 garlic cloves
• handful mint leaves
• 250g beef or lamb mince
• a good pinch salt
• 2 tbsp semolina
• 1 tbsp Ras El Hanout

For the sauce

• half an onion, finely chopped
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 400g tin tomatoes
• 1/2 tsp paprika
• 1/2 tsp sugar
• salt and black pepper to taste
• handful flat-leaved parsley, chopped

Method

Put the mince into a bowl, add the onion mixture, salt, semolina and Ras El Hanout and mix together using your hands making sure everything is well combined.

Form the mince mixture into small ping-pong ball sized balls by rolling in the palms of your hands.

Put the meatballs on a plate in the fridge to set up.

Make the sauce by heating the oil in a frying pan and gently frying the onion until soft and slightly gold.

Tip in the tomatoes and their juice and break up the tomatoes with a wooden spoon. Add the paprika,

sugar, salt and pepper, stir in and simmer the sauce gently until reduced slightly.

Put the meatballs into the sauce and turn them occasionally but gently as the sauce simmers.

Cook the meatballs for about 20 minutes.

They should be piping hot and cooked all the way through. Lastly stir in the chopped parsley.

Serve with rice or couscous.