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Dinner · 35 min · Amounts not specified

Kefta tagine

Meatballs in tomato-cumin, eggs broken in at the end. Cilantro. Bread, not couscous, unless you mean it. Don't make spaghetti and meatballs.

The sheet · 4 plates · 35 min

easy

Why tonight. Meatballs in tomato-cumin, eggs broken in at the end. Cilantro. Bread, not couscous, unless you mean it. Don't make spaghetti and meatballs.

What it needs

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  • beef
  • tomato
  • cumin
  • eggs
  • onion

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: cilantro.

Method

  1. Mix the beef with grated onion, cumin and a lot of salt, and stop mixing as soon as it comes together. Fry a pinch and taste it before you roll the rest.
  2. Brown the balls quickly in a wide pan and lift them out. They will finish in the sauce.
  3. Tomato and the remaining onion cooked down hard in that same fat until jammy, then the meatballs back in, half-submerged.
  4. Crack the eggs into gaps in the sauce, lid on, five minutes until the whites set and the yolks do not. Bread, and nothing else on the table.

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Published minimum internal temperaturesWhole cuts of beef, pork, lamb and veal: 63°C, 145°F, plus a 3 minute rest.Whole cuts of beef, pork, lamb and veal63°C / 145°F + 3 min rest40°C50°C60°C70°C80°C

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What the ingredients are actually doing

beef
Fat and connective tissue decide the method.
tomato
Sweet, sour and savory at once, which is why it holds up so many dishes with no meat in them.
cumin
Earthy and slightly bitter, and it needs heat to open.
eggs
The cheapest way to turn a side dish into dinner.
onion
The base under most of this library.

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