Minced meat

In the Netherlands, a "bal gehakt" (ball of minced meat) is very common. Most known is minced meat out of a mix of pork and beef or beef only. Beef is more expensive and the meat tastes dryer.

Since minced meat is one of the cheapest meat kinds you can buy it may be clear it's eaten a lot and not only in pasta sauce or pesto. Just a bit in a "one-pot dish" can give your dish at least the taste as if meat was in it.

A ball of minced meat can be eaten with each dish out of potatoes and vegetables and it's easy to make more meat out of it by adding a raw egg and bread crumbs.

Needed:

• Minced meat

• Egg (raw)

• Bread- crumbs

• Oil

• Pan

• Spices

• Oil/butter

Step 1:

Minced meat (500 grams), 1 small raw egg, breadcrumbs, garlic, salt are stirred well.

Step 2:

You can make balls out of it (size of a tennis ball), burgers, or smaller balls (good for snacking). I go for the burgers because it goes faster.

Step 3:

Fry with some oil (I used sunflower oil) at one side. If you make balls you have to temper your fire and carefully roll over the balls till they are baked equally).

Turn the burgers.

I added onion to it because these burgers will end up on bread and some soy sauce.

This will be our dinner and last meal of the day. We are it without sauce because it tasted fine enough this way.

What about those balls?

I made them smaller, fried them into the same pan, and added the last tomato ketchup to it with some water. After the balls are equally fried they are still raw inside. You need to add water or a sauce to take care of that. The bigger the ball the longer it takes.

Snack bars, supermarkets, and butchers sell already prepared balls as well. Some are still raw, others you only need to warm up, although they can be eaten cold too. The smaller balls are available canned or vacuum-sealed.

A "berenklauw" (bear's paw) is a ball minced meat cut in slices. Between those slices is an onion. It's covered with a thick warm peanut butter sauce.

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