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The Fair Trade Cook Book


Argentinian Meat Balls

The juicy, herby flavours in the recipe take us back to when the kids were little.
This recipe is based on one published decades ago by Oxfam who even then were supporting the indigenous indians living in northern Argentina and southern Paraguay. This is a main course dish which serves 4, but can be stretched by addition of further vegetable dishes or side dishes.
Credit is due to the Cambridge University Fairtrade Cookbook Fanclub for improvements to this recipe.

Ingredients

Meat Balls
500 gm minced beef
2 hens eggs
2 medium onions
2 slices of bread
50 ml milk
15 ml Fair Trade mixed herbs
5 ml FAIRTRADE ground nutmeg
5 ml FAIRTRADE fresh ground black pepper
30 ml grated cheese
15 ml flour
Sauce
sunflower oil
2 organic carrots
1 medium onion
400 ml(1 can) chopped tomatoes
salt and FAIRTRADE fresh ground black pepper
100 ml stock
a sprinkling thyme
FAIRTRADE Sources
Rice
Fresh Fruit and veg
Local Produce
Herbs and Spices

Method

Preparation
Peel the carrots and chop fine or grate.
De-skin the onion and chop fine.
Pre-heat the oven to Gas Mark 5 (190 deg C).

Make the Meat Balls.
Soak the bread in the milk
Fry the onions until translucent.
Place the meat in a mixing bowl and add the soaked bread, the mixed herbs, pepper and nutmeg, cheese and cooked onions. Add the eggs. Mix.
The meat mixture will bind together.
Using your (clean) hands make the mix into golf ball sized lumps and coat with the flour.

Make the sauce.
Fry the chopped onions, carrots, add the tomatoes, thyme, stock, salt and pepper.
Heat through to mingle the flavours.

Cook
Pour the sauce into a baking dish and add the meatballs.
Cook in the oven at Gas Mark 5 (190 deg C) for 40 minutes.

To serve
Serve with FAIRTRADE plain rice or boiled FAIRTRADE potatoes.

Variations