Gehaktballen: Dutch meatballs
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- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 1 cup lean ground beef
- 1 egg
- 2 slices white bread, crusts removed
- 1 small onion, minced
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon curry powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon mace, ground
- 1⁄2 teaspoon pepper, ground
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1⁄2 cup water or 1/2 cup beef stock
- to taste ketjap manis or maggi seasoning
directions
- Mix the meat with the egg, bread, onion, salt and spices and form 4-5 meatballs.
- Chill for about 30 minutes.
- Make into 4-6 meatballs.
- Heat the butter and brown the meatballs for about 15 minutes, turning them a couple of times.
- Reduce the heat to simmer and cook the meatballs for another 15 minutes, turning a few times.
- Remove the meatballs, add the water or beef stock and bring to a high heat. Add a little ketjap manis or Maggi seasoning to the mixture and you will have a lovely gravy to serve with the meatballs.
- NOTES : Some people coat the meatballs with breadcrumbs before frying.
- We soak the bread in a bit of milk, and then press out the milk from the bread before adding to the ground beef.
- We almost always use just the ground beef, and it is very good.
- This is good served with homefries and lots of mayonnaise.
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Reviews
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This recipe is for 1.5 lbs of ground beef not 1 cup! I usually use a triple mix (equal parts of beef, pork and chicken), add 1 tablespoon of course dutch mustard, and instead of mace use nutmeg-quite a bit, 1/2 of a nutmeg seed. I always brown them in butter first then braise in the beef or onion stock, or if you like braise with veggie stock. Very delicious
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Heel smakkelijk! I lived in Holland for three years and absolutely remember this being served as an appetizer at parties. I made this recipe today for the World Cup Final. My only comment is that it was too salty for my taste. I made this with half the salt (3/4 tsp.) and still found it too salty. Would recommend cutting salt to 1/2 tsp. Other than that, superb!!!
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