Wild Mushroom Meatballs

Albóndigas de Setas

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    24

    meatballs
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Food of Northern Spain

By Jenny Chandler

Published 2005

  • About

Meatballs are standard fare at tapas bars, on restaurant set menus and in the home kitchen. Most Spanish cooks wouldn’t even require a recipe to prepare them; it’s just second nature. Meatballs vary but most are made with a combination of pork, and beef or lamb. I ate an exquisite wild boar meatball stuffed with a chestnut in the Pyrenean foothills. Another rather bizarre, but tasty, combination was a dish of meatballs served with squid that I ate in the chic Catalan resort of Cadaqu