Pork meatballs with tomato & orange sauce

Pork meatballs with tomato & orange sauce

A zesty Spanish tapa that's perfect for a sharing menu when you're entertaining friends

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 6

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 1 hr 15 mins

Method

  1. Put all the meatball ingredients into a bowl and mix until well combined.
  2. Shape the mixture into small meatballs (you should be able to make about 40 of them) then fry in a little olive oil until golden all over and cooked through.
  3. Heat 3 tbsp olive oil in a separate pan and cook the onion, garlic and carrots for 8 minutes or until soft but not brown. Add the thyme and paprika and fry for 20 seconds. Then add the wine and bubble up for a few minutes.
  4. Add the tomatoes, orange zest and juice along with the stock, then cook until the sauce has reduced and thickened. This should take approx 45 minutes.
  5. Mix together the sauce and the meatballs and cook until heated through. Finish with a sprinkling of fresh oregano.

PER SERVING

354 kcalories, protein 29.4g, carbohydrate 7.5g, fat 21.3 g, saturated fat 6.1g, fibre 1.8g, salt 0.5 g

Recipe from olive magazine, January 2012.

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  • 13 January 2012

    Lynwen commented on this recipe

    brilliant best meatball recipe ever! Flavourful and easy to do. This has gone into my binder!! Can't wait to try the other tapas recipes.

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  • 22 January 2012

    Nikki Downs rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Lovely!

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    Cat83 rated this recipe

    5 stars

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  • 13 April 2012

    Duderino rated and commented on this recipe

    2 stars

    Nice sauce but dish is somehow let down by the meatball recipee. Recipee definitely needs some salt. I would also go easier on the cumin. At the suggested quantity it is too overpowering

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 6

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 1 hr 15 mins

Ingredients

MEATBALLS

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PER SERVING

354 kcalories, protein 29.4g, carbohydrate 7.5g, fat 21.3 g, saturated fat 6.1g, fibre 1.8g, salt 0.5 g

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