Red Thai-Style Beef Meatball Bake
Imagine the rich, fragrant flavours of Thai cuisine but in a super-simple tray bake! You'll roast fragrant beef meatballs with sweet potato, shallots, carrot and green beans, before adding a rich, coconutty red curry sauce. Finish off with as much chilli as you can handle!
Ingredients for 2 people
Cooking for 3? 1 and a half for each ingredient Cooking for 4? Double each ingredient
You'll also need
Salt, Sugar, Vegetable oil, Pepper, Water (or dietary alternatives)
Cooking instructions
Instructions for 2 [for 3] [for 4] portion recipe.
Preheat the oven to 220°C/ 200°C (fan)/ gas 7
Peel and chop half your shallots into wedges, then slice the remaining shallot[s] finely
Chop your potatoes[s] (skins on) into bite-sized pieces
Peel then chop your sweet potato[s] into bite-sized pieces
Top, tail and slice your carrot[s] at an angle
Add the shallot wedges, sliced carrot and all the chopped potatoes to an oven-proof dish with a drizzle of vegetable oil and a generous grind of black pepper and give everything a good mix up
Put the tray in the oven for an initial 20 min or until the potatoes have started to brown
Boil a kettle
While the potatoes are in the oven, peel and finely chop (or grate) your garlic
Peel (scrape the skin off with a teaspoon) and finely chop (or grate) your ginger
Cut half your red chilli[es] into rounds
Cut the remaining chilli in half, deseed (scrape the seeds out with a teaspoon) and chop finely
Add your beef mince to a bowl with the chopped shallot, half the chopped garlic, half the chopped ginger (you'll use the rest later!) and a small pinch of salt and give everything a good mix up (clean hands is the best way!)
Divide the beef mince into 3 per person and shape them into meatballs
Dissolve your creamed coconut and red Thai curry paste with 1 tsp [1 1/2 tsp] [2 tsp] sugar in 150ml [200ml] [250ml] boiled water
Add your fish sauce, chopped chilli (can't handle the heat? Go easy!) and remaining chopped garlic and ginger and stir everything together – this is your red Thai curry stock
Trim, then chop your green beans in half
Crush your cardamom pods open by squashing them with the side of a knife
Remove the tray from the oven and spoon away any excess oil
Add the meatballs, halved green beans, cardamom pods and your tamarind paste to the tray and pour the red Thai curry stock over everything
Return the tray to the oven for 15 min further or until the meatballs are cooked through (no pink meat!) and the sauce is thick and rich – this is your red Thai-style beef meatball bake
Once done, give the red Thai-style beef meatball bake a good mix up in case the sauce has separated a little
Serve the red Thai-style beef meatball bake and garnish with the chilli rounds (not a fan of spice? Just add a little!)
Tip: Watch out for any cardamom pods!
Enjoy!
Nutritional information
Nutritional information only applies to ingredients supplied by Gousto.
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Allergens
Allergens highlighted by † (celery, fish, mustard, nut, peanut, sesame, soya).
In addition to the recipe specific allergen information provided, due to production and packing methods Gousto boxes may also contain low levels of the following allergens: Cereals containing gluten; Crustaceans; Eggs; Fish; Peanuts; Soya; Milk; Nuts: almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, cashews, pecan nuts, brazil nuts, pistachio nuts, macadamia nuts; Celery; Sesame; Sulphur dioxide and Sulphites; Lupin; Molluscs; Mustard.
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