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Meatballs with a twist recipe
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Meatballs with a twist recipe

11 ingredients 20 min + 20 min 4 people openrecipes

All kids love meatballs... so why not use that to your advantage, and disguise a little tuna in them next time? Fiona Faulkner's 'meatballs with a twist' are sure to work.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

1348
Calories
53g
Protein
55g
Fat
160g
Carbs

Counts 14 of 18 ingredients — the other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 14 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Pasta 1 cup cooked (140g) 220
Salmon 100g cooked 208
Pine Nut 1 oz (28g) 191
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Lime juice of 1 lime (44ml) 11
Clove 1 tsp ground (2g) 7
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Olive 1 large (4g) 4
Garlic 1 clove (3g) 4
Parsley 1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g) 1
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Rapeseed Oil not in our table 0
Meat not in our table 0
Water not in our table 0
Sauce not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 2 olive / rapeseed oil
  • tbsp onion, finely chopped
  • 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
  • 1 pine nuts – whizzed in a food processor – or chopped up a bit
  • 70 small cans of sustainably-sourced tuna meat in spring water (not oil)
  • g lime, juice only
  • 2 egg, beaten
  • 1 fresh breadcrumbs (make use of the crusts at either end of a loaf!)
  • 1 good handful of fresh parsley – finely chopped
  • 140 salt and pepper
  • g lots of spaghetti / pasta to serve – and some tomato-based pasta sauce

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By lovefood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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