The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook
Sesame-Spiced Turkey Meatballs and Smashed Chickpea Salad
Page 167
| Course Type: Main Courses
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Zosia from Toronto, ON
A tasty falafel inspired dish. The meatballs were moist and flavourful (and actually tasted of turkey) with the sesame seeds adding a crunchy texture, and the brightness of the chickpea salad was a great counter to the heat (which was quite mild) of the meatballs. Flavours of the Middle East but toned down a little.
The meatballs took a few extra minutes to put together as time was spent toasting sesame seeds and making fresh breadcrumbs but they were still quite easy to make. I made mine a little smaller and broiled them instead of frying and baking.
The chickpeas (I used freshly cooked) were almost a disaster: the directions to mash them slightly resulted in an unappetizing mess of partially mashed chickpeas and loose skins. I spent 5 minutes removing the skins and was just glad that I hadn’t yet added the other ingredients.
I served them with pitas, a cucumber-tomato-mint salad and a dollop of Greek yogurt.
I would like to give this 3 ½ stars – 4 for flavour with a half-star deduction for the issue of the chickpeas.
(edited 2nd February 2013) (0) comment (0) useful
This was a great middle eastern-ish dish. I did make a tahini sauce to go with it.
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