Yes mate welcome to our new blog, today I cooked up this dish and it was perfect for watching news about volcanoes to.
Now before you get to the market/supermarket, check this list, POW!
(On a side note, a lot of butchers don't sell lamb mince as its 'too expensive'. This is bent as me in my hippy chillwave mindset couldn't support local butchers and had to spend my cash at Sainsburys, WTF!)
For the meatballs
500g minced lamb!
1x w=White onion!
Some garlic!
4x Birds eye chillies!
1x Egg!
Turmeric!
Chilli powder! (maybe)
Fresh dill!
Ground paprika!
For the sauce
1x Tin of peeled tomatoes!
Tomato purée!
More garlic!
4 More birds eye chillies!
Ground black pepper!
Dill again!
Lamb stock cube!
Bay leaf!
General other stuff
Pasta!
Spotify/Youtube/Myspace!
Some one to eat with!
Right lets get on with 'tings'. Start going a good two hours before your other half/band member/mother will be starving and moaning, don't want people bitching while you're doing the kitchen.
First things first is to chop up your onion and a couple cloves of garlic, wack some oil in your frying pan and heat that bitch up. Once the pan is 'rate' hot throw in the onion and garlic and keep in until lovely and golden. At this stage places onion and garlic in a bowl and leave to cool down a bit.Cut up those chilli's and listen to lcd's new tune 'drunk girls' (Summer anthem #1)
Grab yourself a big plastic bowl and wash those dirty hipster hands! In this bowl we want to throw all meatballs ingredients in and mix that up like a mismatched bpm fidget tune. Its all essential, if you don't like egg, keep it in. That's the stuff that syncs the beat up fool! If not, your fit as fuck meatballs could fall apart when cooking, not cool my friend, not cool.
Dust those spicy lamb balls with some flour and shove in the fridge for an hour, again another procedure that helps prevent your meatballs from falling apart like a deranged NYC electro solo artist.
At this point may be good to spotify los campos and dance like a dick in your living room to 'romance is boring', catch up on hollyoaks or take in that massive cardigan you spotted in rspca. banging.
(p.s If you haven't gone to see los campesinos live yet, you need to check out their tour dates and get on it, a spectacular display of brilliance with none of the 'I'm getting bored of standing in the same place now, I want to go somewhere else and shark a bit' and they use xylophones)
Check yourself! Its sauce time, Super easy.
Fry some more garlic and chilli's, pour in your tomatoes and puree, stir a bit, gradually stir in the other ingredients leaving the bay leaf and dill for last. leave to simmer and stir every now and again. Piece of piss (no thats not an ingredient)
If at this stage its not quite been an hour since those balls were put in the fridge and you are cooking for a loved one, I suggest you listen to this summer anthem #2 radar detector by darwin deez. Don't make it 'your song' though as it will only pain you when you split up, school boy error yo!
Final part of this fit dish now, get the biggest pan you can find, splash some oil in and heat it up so its about as hot as primark sale in july.
Frying your meatballs can be an arse as they can over cook on the outside and still be raw in the inside, some people suggest boiling them (crazy people who still listen to Cliff Richard)
You will just have to be careful and check them but it really isn't anything to worry about, they will generally cook in the same amount of time as an average dirty projectors song.
If you can't fit all the meatballs in the pan, heat up your oven to hot hold them and do it in batch's. Simple innit.
Have your pasta boiling at the same time and it should all come together like when a well planned birthday night out with your bros/gals.
Only one thing left to do now and that's to dish up and eat that motherbear, fuck yes!
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Couple last suggestions, good film to watch while eating is 'me, you and everyone we know' and kit kat chunkys would be an ideal dessert.
Safe. much love alt 'n' pepper xxx
