Recipe: Kofta Balls

Quickie post. I got the main meatball recipe from the May issue of Good Housekeeping. I just whipped up sauce, trying to replicate Uncle Moe's version.

Kofta Balls

Ingredients

Meatballs:
1/4 kilo ground beef
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
Pinch of paprika
Half an onion, finely chopped
1 garlic clove, finely chopped
About 1/4 cup fine bread crumbs
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese
Egg (eyeball it), slightly beaten
1/2 a small block of quick-melt cheese, cut into 1/2-inch cubes

Sauce:
2 tsps onion, finely chopped
1 garlic clove, finely chopped
1 pack tomato sauce
Salt
Ground black pepper
Paprika
Chili powder
Coriander, crushed

1. Make meatballs: Combine all ingredients except cheese. Add more bread crumbs if mixture is too wet.
2. Wrap about a tablespoon of the meat around cheese to form a 1-inch ball.
3. Pan-fry until golden brown. (I removed it from heat when almost done and popped it in the oven for about 5-10 minutes.)
4. Make sauce: Saute onions and garlic. Add tomato sauce and all spices. Simmer.
5. Top meatballs with sauce. Serve with rice.
   

Makes about 10 meatballs. Enjoy!

Recipe: Beef Bulgogi

It's been a week since my last post. Been busy, mostly with work and disc (I've got freckles on my nose and a sprained ankle--again!--to show for it) and being a wife--been cooking a lot lately. Tonight it was garlicky tanigue with two side dishes: ensaladang talong (eggplant with tomatoes, onions, and salted egg) and adobong kangkong (I looove kangkong). The other day, I cooked a Korean dish to go with my husband's store-bought kimchi:

OK, it was a hastily taken photo.

So, anyway:

Beef Bulgogi

Ingredients (and again, no measurements! Sorry, that's not how I roll!)

Beef tenderloin, sliced thinly (I used 1/4 kilo for the two of us)
Soy sauce
Garlic, minced
Ginger, minced
Sesame oil
Sesame seeds

1. Mix all ingredients except beef.
2. Marinate beef for about an hour (or overnight, if you really want it to soak up the stuff).
3. You're supposed to grill this thang but I opted to pan-fry. So heat a bit of oil in a pan, then fry until done.
4. If your range runs out of gas towards the end like ours did, nuke the beef! (Still turned out yummy!)
5. Serve with steamed rice and kimchi.
   

Will post again soon, I swear.