Spicy meatballs with sunflower butter sauce

This was the first meal I cooked for Bear. He stuck around, so it can’t have been too bad…


Meatballs
500g beef mince (although pork or lamb mince would also work)
1 egg
1 onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 red chilli, finely chopped
1 tbsp grated ginger
¼ cup chopped fresh coriander
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground coriander
Salt & pepper

Sauce
¼ cup sunflower butter (you can get this at Huckleberry Farms, or Ceres Wholefoods)
1 cup coconut cream
½ cup water
1 red chilli, finely chopped


For the sauce
Put all ingredients into a saucepan and heat, stirring frequently, until boiling.


For the meatballs
Combine all ingredients in a bowl.

Shape into meatballs.

Brown meatballs in a frypan. Add sauce to meatballs. Stir, cover, and simmer 10 mins or until meatballs cooked through.

Serve over chopped red cabbage.

Notes:
Last time I did this, I used cauliflower rice which was great, but cauliflowers are now $6 each!! We had half a red cabbage that needed using up, so I figured I’d try using that. It was also really good!

I also used a casserole dish last time, but that’s currently packed in a box somewhere! It was probably slightly better than done in the frypan. Brown the meatballs in the dish on the stovetop, add the sauce, cover & bake at 150 degrees for 15-20 mins (I think!).