The other day, I had a craving for meatballs. Not your average Italian meatballs, but something with a Mexican zing to it. I couldn’t really fall in love with the recipes I found online so I made my own. I found a few recipes that were close but didn’t quite make my liking jump so the four recipes here, here, here and here are what these are based off of.
My girls don’t eat soup. Sometimes, I wish they did. They are not soup eaters. So I made these Mexican Meatballs with some sauce to put over rice and black beans. They were a hit. I wish I had made more!!
It’s not pretty, but in the processor, I mixed one pound of ground hamburger and 2 boneless pork chops. (It’s what I had in the freezer)
After cleaning out the meat, I shredded one medium-large zucchini and 24 baby carrots.
I didn’t have any eggs so I added some vanilla yogurt to help bind it all together although the meat was pretty moist from the processor I really don’t think it needed a binder.
I cleaned out the processor again and added a 4 vine tomatoes, 3 cloves of garlic (mashed and diced), about half a white onion and a small can of green chilies. Blended it all together so it made a nice liquidy salsa, added about a cup of chicken bouillon and simmered it for awhile, 10 minutes or so.
I then added the meatballs to it and boiled it for about 10 minutes, gave it a good stir and then covered, reduced the heat to medium and let it simmer for about 30 minutes. All the recipes I found said to cook them until they were about 165ish and it was amazing!!
It needed some heat though, some fresh jalapenos would have been amazing but our local grocery store doesn’t carry them and I didn’t want to travel all the way to town to hit Wegmans.
Let me tell you, Jimmy was starving and raved about the smell for the whole hour I was prepping it and then cooking it. The girls loved them too! Will certainly make these again with more spice and more sauce because the rice was just plain rice. It certainly needed sauce!!
If you try these, let me know how they turn out and if you can make them better, I’d love to hear how!
