Name: Baked meatballs with dill and cherry tomatoes
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 500 g Ground meat (of your choice); 1 kg Potatoes; 300 g Cherry tomatoes; 2 Eggs; 1 Onion; 1 Carrot; 3 Garlic cloves; 3 tbsp Fine wheat semolina (farina); 5 tbsp Mayonnaise; 1 tsp Turmeric; 2 tsp Mustard; to taste Salt and pepper; to taste Dill; as needed Vegetable oil

Instructions

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Peel the potatoes and grate them coarsely. Finely chop the garlic and onion and sauté briefly. Coarsely grate the carrot and rinse the cherry tomatoes.
In a bowl, combine the eggs, mayonnaise, mustard, semolina, and carrot, and season with turmeric, salt, and pepper. Add this mixture and the remaining prepared ingredients, except the meat, to the grated potatoes and mix thoroughly.
With damp hands, shape the ground meat into small balls. Grease a baking dish with oil, spread the potato mixture over the bottom, and smooth the surface.
Arrange the meatballs on top and fill the gaps between them with cherry tomatoes.
Bake in an oven preheated to 180 °C (350 °F), adjusting the baking time to suit your oven. Garnish the finished dish with dill.

Tip: Squeeze the grated potatoes before mixing so the bottom layer won't be gummy. The dish is done when the potatoes are tender even in the center of the baking dish; test them with a fork.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per serving, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 379 kcal
Protein: 16 g
Carbohydrates: 30 g
of which sugars: 3.2 g
Fat: 22 g
of which saturates: 6.4 g
Fiber: 3.8 g
Salt: 0.6 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Mäsové guličky s kôprom a cherry paradajkami v pekáči