Ingredients
For
meatballs:
Minced turkey……..…300g
Egg……………...…..……1
Breadcrumbs …………½ cup
Onion…………………....½ (large, finely chopped)
Garlic…………….…..….1 clove (large, finely chopped)
Green chilli……..…....1 (finely chopped)
Coriander powder..…½ tea spoon
Rosemary……………...½ tea spoon
Ground pepper…..…..¼ tea spoon
Salt to taste
Oil to fry
For
the sauce:
Tomato……………......2 (chopped)
Onion………………...…½ (large, chopped)
Garlic………….…….....1 clove (large, chopped)
Water………………..….¼ cup
Chilli powder……...…½ tea spoon
Coriander powder….½ tea spoon
Rosemary……………..½ tea spoon
Salt to taste
Oil to cook
For
the spaghetti:
Spaghetti fist
full
Water to boil the spaghetti
Salt to taste
Method
For
meatballs:
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Beat the egg in a bowl and then add all
the other ingredients to it.
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Mix well with hand and make meatballs with
the mixture about the size of golf balls.
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Heat the oil to fry the meatballs.
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Once the oil has heated, fry the
meatballs until they turn light golden-brown in colour. Drain and collect them
on a plate. Do not overcook them because
we will be cooking them again in the sauce.
For
the sauce:
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Add tomato, onions, garlic and water in a
mixer and make a smooth paste out of it.
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Heat cooking oil in a pan and add the tomato-onion
paste just prepared.
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Now add the chilli and coriander powder, rosemary
and salt to the pan. Mix well.
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Once the sauce starts to bubble add the
fried meatballs. Mix to coat the meatball with the sauce.
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Cook until the sauce starts to thicken. Make sure the sauce is not watery.
For
the Spaghetti:
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Boil water and add salt to it.
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Add the spaghetti to the boiling water and
cook for the required amount of time.
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Once cooked, drain the spaghetti using
the pasta drainer.
Arrange spaghetti on a plate and top it up
with the meatballs and sauce. Serve
hot.
Serves: 2
Ingredients
Mince turkey………………..300g
Tomato puree……...…......1 cup
Garlic…………………………..2 cloves (chopped)
Kidney beans….…………….¾ cup
Onion……………………….....1 (finely chopped)
Cumin powder………………½ tea spoon
Oregano……………………….½ tea spoon
Chilli powder………………..1½ tea spoon (heaped)
Salt to taste
Oil to cook
Method
For
the kidney beans:
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Wash the kidney beans and Soak them in a
bowl, in2 cups of water for 8 hours.
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Boil/cook them in the same water in which
they were soaked until soft.
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Mash them within its juices in a bowl.
For
the turkey:
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Heat cooking oil in pan and add onions. Cook until transparent.
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Add garlic and cook for 1 min.
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Now add tomato puree, cumin powder,
chilli powder, oregano and mashed kidney beans and cook for 3 min.
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Now add the turkey and salt to taste. Mix
well.
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Cook until the turkey is cook and the
mixture becomes dry.
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Sprinkle with freshly milled pepper (if
required) and serve with pitta bread or naan.
Serves: 2
Note:
Increase or decrease the
chilli component depending on how hot the chilli powder used is and your
personal enjoyable level of chilli.
Ingredients
For the turkey:
Minced Turkey................300g
Onions ............................1 (finely chopped)
Tomato...........................2 (finely chopped)
Red Bell Pepper...............1 (chopped)
Dried Thyme...................1 tea spoon
Garlic..............................2 cloves (finely chopped)
Tomato sauce..................2 table spoon
Water..............................¼ cup
Oil to cook
Salt to taste
For the spaghetti:
Spaghetti.......................ffist full
Water to boil the spaghetti
Salt to taste
Method
For the turkey:
- Add oil to a pan and heat it at high temperature. Add onions and reduce the temperature to medium. Cook on till transparent.
- Add tomato and garlic, cook for 2 min.
- Add bell peppers to the pan and cook for 2 min.
- Now add the tomato sauce, water, thyme, minced turkey and salt to the pan. Mix well and cover pan with lid to cook.
- Stir the mixture at regular intervals until the turkey is cooked.
For the Spaghetti:
- Boil water and add salt to it.
- Add the spaghetti to the boiling water and cook for the required amount of time.
- Once cooked, drain the spaghetti using the pasta drainer.
Arrange spaghetti on a plate and top it with the turkey. Garnish with parsley if required.
Serves: 2
Ingredients
