Middle Eastern Meatballs
These middle eastern meatballs are made with ground beef, onion, mint, parsley, garlic, and broiled to finish. Serve with mint yogurt dip.
Equipment
Ingredients
For meatballs
- 1 lb ground beef
- 3/4 large onion diced
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1/2 cup mint loosely packed
- 1/2 cup parsley loosely packed
- 1/2 cup plain breadcrumbs
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- 1 tsp coriander powder
- 1/4 tsp allspice
- 2 tsp lemon juice
For mint yogurt dip
- 1 cup plain yogurt
- 1/2 cup mint finely minced
- 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 tsp salt
Instructions
For the mint yogurt dip
- Mix yogurt, garlic, lemon juice, and finely chopped mint together. Chill the mint yogurt dip until ready to use. The flavor will deepens as it chills.
For the meatballs
- Put onion and garlic in a mini food processor and process until they become tiny pieces. Add the parsley and mint and process again until they are very finely chopped.
- In a large mixing bowl, add the ground meat, onion-herb mixture, breadcrumbs, cumin, allspice, lemon juice, salt & pepper. Mix the meatball mixture with your hand until everything is well incorporated.
- Put the oven rack about 4-5 inch below the heat source and turn your oven to broil setting.
- Roll the mixture into 1 1/2-inch meatballs (You will get about 18-20 meatballs), and place them in a greased baking pan.
- Broil these meatballs for 3-4 minutes. Turn the meatballs to the other side, and broil another 3-4 minutes or until they are fully cooked. Watch carefully to not to burn the meatballs. Serve these meatballs warm with mint yogurt dip.
Notes
These middle eastern meatballs are great with the mint yogurt dip. However you can serve them with plain rice, naan or Arabic bread, tortilla, fruit chutney, or tabbouleh salad.