Meat Balls with Potatoes

Name: Meat Balls with Potatoes (Albóndigas Con Papas)
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Puerto Rican
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon salt; ½ cup tomato sauce; 1 teaspoon capers; 6 olives, stuffed with pimientos; 6 olives, stuffed with pimientos; 3 fresh culantro leaves, washed and finely chopped; 1 onion, peeled, washed and finely chopped; 3 sweet chili peppers, seeded, washed and finely chopped; 1 green pepper, seeded, washed and finely chopped; 2 ounces lean cured ham, optional; 1 ounce salt pork, optional; 1 egg; 2 teaspoons vinegar, crush and mix in a mortar; 1 teaspoon olive oil, crush and mix in a mortar; 1½ teaspoons salt, crush and mix in a mortar; Pinch ground nutmeg, crush and mix in a mortar; 1 clove garlic, peeled, crush and mix in a mortar; ¾ teaspoon whole dried orégano, crush and mix in a mortar; 2 sandwich bread slices, with crusts trimmed (about ⅔ cup sandwich bread slices, thoroughly crumbled); ¼ cup milk; 1 pound lean ground beef; 2 sandwich bread slices, with crusts trimmed (about ⅔ cup sandwich bread slices, thoroughly crumbled); 3 cups water; 1 pound potatoes, peeled and quartered

Albóndigas Con Papas

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Puerto Rican Cookery

By Carmen Aboy Valldejuli

Published 1983

About

Ingredients

A

1 pound lean ground beef
2 sandwich bread slices, with crusts trimmed (about ⅔ cup

Americas
Main course
Puerto Rico
Caribbean

Method

Place meat in a bowl.
Apart, crumble bread finely over milk, soak and crush to mix thoroughly. Add to bowl.
Add ingredients included in B and mix. Add egg and blend with meat.
Take mixture by spoonfuls and turn into balls. Set in a large shallow baking pan and bake for 10