General Hasan’s Meatball (Hasan Pasa Koftesi)

Ingredients

For meatball

1 ½ lb ground beef
2 medium size onion (finely chopped or graded)
1 egg
1 cup of bread crumbs
salt, black pepper, cumin to taste

For filling

4-5 medium size potatoes
2 tbsp butter
1 egg
½ cup milk
salt

For sauce

1 tbsp tomato paste
1 cup of water

Directions

For sauce

In a bowl whisk tomato paste and water.

For filling

1-Boil the potatoes and mash them.

2-Melt the butter in a pan, add the mashed potatoes and stir it couple of minutes.

3-In a small bowl beat the egg. Put the egg onto potatoes and stir it.

3-Add milk while stirring.

4-Finally add the salt.

For meatball

1-In a large bowl, combine all the meatball ingredients and knead them until mixture holds together and becomes like dough.

2-Break off some of the meatball dough size of an egg, first shape it like a ball then make a big indentation to give bowl shape.

3-Grease inside of these small bowls with oil and place them into greased oven tray.

4-Bake them for 15-20 minutes on 350 F. (Be careful if you bake too long, they will become very hard)

5-Take out them from the oven and fill them with mashed potatoes which you prepared

6- Pour some sauce onto meatballs and bake them until they become golden brown.

Serve warm with rice.

Afiyet Olsun.

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