Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, mexican albondigas. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Mexican Albondigas is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Mexican Albondigas is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook mexican albondigas using 16 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Mexican Albondigas:
- Take 2 1/4 pounds ground beef
- Take 1/3 cup brown onion
- Make ready 1/3 cup rice
- Get 2 eggs
- Prepare 1/3 cup chopped tomatoes
- Get 1 tbs yerba buena ( mint leaves.)
- Take 1 tbs dried oregano
- Get 1 tbs black pepper
- Get 1/2 tbs salt
- Make ready 4 fresh chopped potatoes
- Make ready 3 fresh chopped carrots
- Get 3 chopped celery sticks
- Take 3 fresh corn husks
- Prepare 2 tomatoes
- Take 1/2 brown onion
- Make ready 1 tbs chicken flavor bouillon
Steps to make Mexican Albondigas:
- Place ground beef into a bowl and add 1/3 cup onion.
- 1/3cup rice.
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup chopped tomatoes.
- 1 tbs chopped fresh yerba buena, (also know as mint.)
- 1 tbs dried oregano.
- 1 tbs balck pepper and 1/2 tsp salt
- Mix all ingredients together with your hands.
- Once its all mixed, start to forming palm sized meatballs.
- It should look something like this :)
- In the blender add 1 cup water 2 tomatoes and 1/2 onion, chicken flavored bouillon to tas and blend.
- Add to pot that is already filled half way with water.
- Let it come to a boil then start to add your meatballs boil them for 15 minutes before adding your vegetables.
- Add your vegetables and finish cooking until your vegetables are nice and tender :)
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