anyone got a recipe for salsa filled meatballs?

[nappyaddict]

i bought some today from lidl and i would love to be able to make my own but i don't know how. i know how to make meatballs but how would i get the salsa inside?

I think it would be hard because normally the meat shrinks as you cook it and would squeeze the salsa out.

The only way I can see you could do it would be to freeze the salsa and then shape the meat around the icecube of salsa, then the meat would hopefully be cooked before the salsa melted.

I have done something like this with beef burgers and it works - but you'd probably need to make the meatballs quite chunky.

i think either the meat would have to be very gluey or the salsa would have to go in after they are cooked. eitehr way sounds a pain and possibly not very nice. i expect lidl have a machine.

why not make nice koftas, i use a bit of dried chilli, fresh parsley and very finely chopped fried onion. mix with mince, roll into little balls and cook in oven. can then be frozen and microwaved to scoff with drinks and olives.

might try the ice cube method then .... any other ideas?

I'm sure the icecube version would work, with a little trial and error, you would probably need to put quite a lot of egg in the mixture to ensure the meatballs didn't leak.

But I think tbh it would be a lot easier to make normal meatballs and cook them in the salsa as a sauce!

Fishie, your koftas sound yum. What kind of meat do you use?

beef or lamb, either very nice. cumin works well too.

napppyaddict i do think the salsa must have been injected after cooking meatballs, like a jam doughnut. not sure how a space was left but it can't be that difficult. how big are they?

I reckon it would be really hard to leave a space in home cooking and then inject the salsa - when they make commercial chicken kievs they kind of mould the chicken paste into two shells and then stick it together with a sort of edible industrial glue. There is no way you could ever reproduce that technique at home (well, maybe Heston Blumethal!).

they are the same sort of size as breaded mushrooms or those mini scotch eggs.