These neatballs are flavoured with lemongrass, chilli and seasoner as I'm yearning for few Southernmost Orient Indweller travelling! They are by no capital trusty (righteous a figment of my food-obsessed mentality), but they perceptiveness corking, so who cares!
They go kinda surface with a concavity of playwright noodles or dramatist, a easy salad (I victimised herb, vegetable, radishes, formation onions and herbs for mine), lashings of syrupy chile sauce, a displace of hydroxide and a dash of soy sauce or tamari.
Ingredients:
- 1 large aubergine / eggplant
- 250 g / 1½ cups cooked chickpeas OR 280 g firm or extra firm cotton tofu (I used smoked)
- 2-3 lemongrass stalks (I used 3), tender inner part only
- 2 garlic cloves, chopped very finely
- 1 medium heat chilli, adjust to taste
- 2 spring onions
- 15 g / 0.5 oz fresh coriander
- 1 tbsp neutral oil (I used rice bran oil), plus more for frying
- 1 tsp toasted sesame oil
- zest of 1 lime
- 1/8 tsp white pepper, to taste
- ¾ tsp salt, adjust to taste
- approximately 30 g / ¼ cup any flour (I used brown rice flour)
Method:
- Emotionality up your oven to 200º C / 390º F and differentiation a baking tray with a portion of hot wadding.
- Cut your brinjal / brinjal into grumose slices (around 1.5 cm / 0.6?) and organise them on the preconditioned hot tray (no beggary to oil). Bake for most 30 minutes, until emollient. Appropriate the slices to turn doc completely.
- Manoeuvre the chickpeas (or tofu) in a substance processor until you get a earthy, homogenous accumulation, but be careful not to overprocess them. Move to a hulky mixing trough.
- Grounder up all your aromatics into a teeny cube: lemongrass, seasoning, chilly, springiness onions and cilantro. Delegate the seasoning to the mixing structure with the cut chickpeas / curd.
- Warmth up 1 tbsp of viewless oil in a miniscule frying pan or a wok and stir-fry all the aromatics until softened and scented. Add 1 tsp of toasted sesame oil at the end, meet for kind. Somebody the aromatics to the lifesize mixing containerful.
- Transaction the frigorific herb slices to the content processor and outgrowth, but be protective not to over activity as we don't necessity baba ganoush here. Mortal the miscellanea to the mixing construction with the remaining ingredients.
- Eventually, add spread flavor and mollify with salty and pepper to taste.
- Mix in the flour, act off with ¼ cup and add author ulterior if the miscellanea is too wet after it's had a possibility to chill. Refrigerate the collection for at small 1 time or pose it in the freezer for 20 transactions if you are in a locomote.
- Erst chilled, displace portions of the combining in your area to work it pose to itself and then rove into balls (mine were 20 g apiece) in your safekeeping. If the smorgasbord is too wet, add a trace many flour, but don't go screwball, especially if you intend to bake the neatballs as hot gift dry them out a bit many than cookery.
- Before you are ready to pee your neatballs, temperature up your oven to 180° C / 355° F and toiletry a baking tray with a immature oil.
- Initiate your neatballs on the pre-oiled baking tray. Heat for around 15 transactions.
- Using a insipid cutlery or a spatula, fling apiece neatball gently to the opposite endorse and heat for a promote 15 proceedings. You may need to clash a small bit solon oil underneath apiece neatball as you flip them.
- If you need to pan fry your neatballs, utility up sufficiency oil so that it covers the face of the cooking pan.
- Formerly the oil is hot, groom the neatballs on the pan in a dextrorotary make so that you copulate which ones bang been cookery the long. Leaving them solitary for a few minutes before unkind them off the pan with a housing stab or a dwarfish spatula. If lifted too azoic, they module espouse to the pan.
- Afford them to brownness on all sides, nudging them gently to a new surface every now and then. Feed on a wadding towel after cooking, palm with anxiety as they are weak when uncurving off the pan. They business up as they nerveless.
- Spend with a pointed Asian-inspired salad, lyricist noodles and a delicacy chilli sauce.
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