Meat balls, pickled

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[edit] Description

In Romanian: Chiftele marinate

[edit] Ingredients

• Same ground meat mixture as for Moldavian croquettes,
• 4-5 tomatoes or 1 tablespoon tomato sauce,
• 1 small Onion,
• 2-3 juniper berries,
• 1 bay leaf,
• 1/2 teaspoon Sugar,
• 1-2 tablespoons vinegar,
• salt,
• chopped parsley and dill,
• lard for frying,
• flour (1-2 tablespoons)

[edit] Directions

1. Make meat balls out of the ground meat mixture, dredge with flour and fry lightly in a pan with hot lard.
2. Fry quickly at hot temperature, on all sides.
3. Arrange the fried meat balls in a pan and cover with the following sauce.
4. Put a finely chopped Onion in the pan where the meat balls were fried and fry it with 1/2 teaspoon flour and then add the boiled and strained tomatoes.
5. Add salt, Sugar, juniper berries, bay leaf, vinegar and chopped parsley and dill.
6. Simmer, shaking the pan from time to time.