Name: Chicken Meatballs in Hydrogarum
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: 20 g fresh bread crumbs; 1 tbsp caroenum; 1 tbsp fish sauce; 300 g organic corn-fed chicken breast meat; 1 small egg; 30 black peppercorns, coarsely ground; 1 tsp roasted and ground cumin seeds; 2 tsp chopped fresh parsley; generous freshly ground black pepper; 11 coffee cups of water; 1 coffee cup of fish sauce

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooking Apicius

By Sally Grainger

Published 2006

About

This recipe for meatballs has been ‘created’ to accompany the thick chicken sauce. Chicken flesh is flavoured with pepper, cumin, fish sauce and sweet wine in keeping with the style of forcemeat elsewhere in the Apicius text. The meatballs are cooked in the liquor called hydrogarum described in Apicius 2.2.4.