Lamb and Beef Meatballs

Inspired by this recipe, these are a tasty mix of lamb and beef.

Ingredients

• 500g lamb mince
• 500g beef mince
• 2 slices of bread, processed into breadcrumbs with a blender
• 1 egg
• 12 black olives, roughly chopped
• 1 sweet red pepper, seeds removed and roughly chopped
• 2 tsp sesame seeds
• 10g fresh parsley, finely chopped
• 400g tomato sauce, such as pasata or a homemade pressure cooker sauce
• 1 ball of mozzarella

Method

1. Pre-heat the oven to 160 degrees Celsius.
2. Use your hands to mix the beef, lam, bread, egg, olives, pepper, sesame and parsely in a bowl until evenly blended.
3. In an oven proof saucepan or casserole dish, heat the tomato sauce until it's simmering.
4. Divide the meat mixture into 12 even sized balls and place in the simmering tomato sauce.
5. Put a lid on and simmer for 10 minutes.
6. Once the 10 minutes is up, carefully turn each meatball over in the sauce.
7. Tear up the ball of mozzarella and cover the top of the sauce and meatballs with it.
8. Place in the over for 20 minutes.
9. Serve on freshly cooked pasta.

Serves 4.