Begendili Meatballs Recipe

Meatballs prepared with roasted eggplant, flour roasted in butter and cold milk, served with accompaniment, garlic yoghurt, tomato sauce and hot oil.

Meatballs are a flavor in themselves that do not need any garnish.

How to Make Begendili Meatballs Recipe?

• After soaking the stale bread crumbs from which you have removed the crust, soak them with water and keep them aside to soften.
• Grate the onion with the fine side of the grater. Place the medium-fat ground meat mixed with beef and lamb in a deep mixing bowl.
• Mix the minced meat with the addition of grated onion, oil, salt, black pepper and cumin.
• After squeezing out all the water from the stale bread you have kept in water, add it to the meatball mixture. Add all the ingredients and knead the meatball mixture for 15-20 minutes.
• Let the meatball mixture, which has reached a paste consistency, rest in the refrigerator for at least 40 minutes.
• For liked; Carefully peel the skins of the eggplants you cooked on the grill. Cut into small pieces.
• Melt the butter in a small saucepan. Add the flour and fry in melted butter. Add the roasted eggplants that you minced or sieved with a sharp knife and cold milk (a little by little).
• When the mixture starts to boil over low heat, add grated cheddar cheese, salt and freshly ground black pepper. When the cooking process is completed, remove it from the stove.
• Cut the meatball mixture that you have rested in the refrigerator into walnut-sized pieces.
• After dipping your hand in water, shape the meatballs into flat shapes. Cook over high heat on a pre-oiled and heated grill or preferably in a cast iron skillet, turning both sides upside down.
• Share what you like on serving plates. Place the fried meatballs on it. Garnish with whipped yoghurt and tomato sauce with the addition of grated garlic.
• Share the heat with your loved ones, accompanied by hot red pepper powder and mint burnt in hot olive oil.