Chipotle Meatballs

Name: Chipotle Meatballs
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 slices bacon, minced; 2 garlic cloves, minced; 2 larges eggs; 118 milliliters bread crumbs; 2 teaspoons salt; 680 grams ground pork; 2 teaspoons dried oregano or finely chopped fresh mint; 1 teaspoon chipotle powder (or a couple teaspoons of adobo sauce); 2 Tbsps extra virgin olive oil; 1 medium onion, chopped, about 1 cup; 3 garlic cloves, minced; 1 chipotles chiles in adobo (canned), minced fine and sauce reserved; 794 grams crushed tomatoes (preferably fire-roasted); 1 teaspoon dried oregano; 118 milliliters beef or chicken broth

Chipotle Meatballs requires around 45 minutes from start to finish. This recipe covers 23% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Watching your figure? This dairy free recipe has 494 calories, 27g of protein, and 34g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 6. It works well as a rather cheap main course. Head to the store and pick up onion, garlic cloves, eggs, and a few other things to make it today. Chipotle Meatballs, Chipotle Turkey Meatballs, and Honey-Chipotle Meatballs are very similar to this recipe.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400°F.

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Mix all the meatball ingredients together in a large bowl and mix well with your clean hands for a minute or two. You want the mixture to be well integrated, but you don't want to overwork it or the meatballs will be tough.

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Meatballs

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Bowl

Form into meatballs and bake: With wet hands or an ice cream scoop, form meat into about 16 plum-size balls and space them out in a 13-by-9-inch baking dish, or, if you have one, a mini-muffin tin.

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Ice Cream

Meatballs

Meat

Plum

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Ice Cream Scoop

Baking Pan

Muffin Tray

Oven

Bake at 400°F until lightly browned, about 15 minutes.

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Oven

the sauce: While meatballs bake, heat the olive oil in a sauté pan over medium-high heat and sauté the onions until they just start to brown.

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Meatballs

Olive Oil

Onion

Sauce

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Frying Pan

Add the garlic and cook for 1 minute.

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Garlic

Add the minced chipotles, the can of tomatoes, oregano or mint, and beef broth.

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Beef Broth

Chipotle Chiles

Tomato

Oregano

Mint

Mix well and add salt to taste. If you want more chipotle flavor, add the reserved chipotle sauce spoonful by spoonful, mixing and tasting between spoonfuls. Simmer the sauce uncovered as the meatballs cook.

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Meatballs

Chipotle Chiles

Sauce

Salt

Toss meatballs with sauce to serve: When meatballs are ready, put them into the sauce and toss to coat. If the sauce is too thin for your taste, continue to boil it down for a few minutes. Otherwise, serve with rice, tortillas or polenta.

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Meatballs

Tortilla