Moroccan Spiral Meatball Zucchini Bake

Recipe video above. I love recipes like this - everyday ingredients used in a different way to make something new and interesting! Moroccan-spiced lamb meatballs are baked in a striking spiral arrangement with zucchini and capsicum in a bubbly garlicky tomato sauce. You will be impressed at how soft the meatballs are, and how the deceptively simple tomato sauce gets so much flavour as it bakes!Serve straight from the pan with flatbreads, couscous or basmati rice.Inspired by Özlem Warren's Baked Aubergine Kebab with Meatballs from Özlem's Turkish Table.

👥 4 Servings⏱️ Prep & Cook: 1h⏳ Prep: 25 min🔥 Cook: 35 min👤 Nagi📖 recipetineats

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🥘 Ingredients

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🍳 Cookware

●oven
●bowl
●pan
●baking dish

📝 Preparation Steps

ABBREVIATED RECIPE:

Toss Vegetables, mix Sauce. Make meatball mixture, roll and squish 16 meatballs, wedge between zucchini rounds, tuck capsicum in. Pour over sauce, bake ⏱️ 35 minutes at 200°C/375°F (180°C fan).

FULL RECIPE:

Preheat oven to 200°C/375°F (180°C fan-forced).

Toss capsicum and zucchini with the oil, salt and pepper in a bowl, and set aside.

Sauce - Mix the sauce ingredients in a small jug or bowl.

Meatball mixture - Put the breadcrumbs in a bowl and grate the onion over. Toss with fingertips to wet the breadcrumbs with the onion juices. Then add remaining meatball ingredients and the Moroccan spice mix. Mix well with your hands.

onion (, grated with a standard box grater)1/2

Roll & squish - Roll the mixture into 16 balls then squish slightly to 1.5cm / 0.6" thickness (~2.5 tbsp/45g each), about the size of (or slightly larger than) the zucchini rounds.

Stand upright with a zucchini round wedged and arrange in a 26cm/10.5" round cast-iron pan (or baking dish of similar size). I do them in a ring then use the rest to fill in the middle. Arrange loosely because next we wedge the capsicum in between wherever you can. Fill the whole pan so everything holds each other up, and use as much capsicum & zucchini as you can (you might have leftover). There are NO RULES with arrangement here, make this your own delicious artwork! :)

Pour sauce over everything, aiming to pour some over everything as best you can. Drizzle all over with about 1 tbsp olive oil.

Bake for ⏱️ 35 minutes until the surface of the meatballs are nicely browned.

Serve with flatbreads or garlic rice, being sure to spoon plenty of the delicious sauce over everything!

Flatbreads (, rice(basmati recommended), couscous, mash)

Nutrition Facts

calories

495 kcal

fat Content

40 g

serving Size

1 serving

fiber Content

1 g

sugar Content

2 g

sodium Content

736 mg

protein Content

24 g

trans Fat Content

0.01 g

cholesterol Content

132 mg

carbohydrate Content

10 g

saturated Fat Content

14 g

unsaturated Fat Content

23 g

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