Cucumber Tomato Salad with Meatballs
A fresh cucumber tomato salad featuring homemade meatballs, perfect for a light starter. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!
Ingredients
- 0.25 onion
- 0.5 garlic clove
- 1 stalk Parsley
- 200 g mixed ground meat
- Salt
- ground pepper
- 1 tsp medium‑spicy mustard
- 1 tsp grated Parmesan
- 1 tbsp Olive Oil
- 0.25 Cucumber
- 2 Tomatoes
- 0.25 yellow bell pepper
- 1 tsp chopped basil
- 1 tbsp extra‑virgin olive oil
- 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
- Salt
- ground pepper
Instructions
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1.
Peel and finely dice the onion. Peel and mince the garlic. Wash, dry, and chop the parsley. Mix the ground meat with mustard, parsley, onion, garlic, and Parmesan; season with salt and pepper.
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2.
Form small balls from the meat mixture and brown them in a hot pan with oil until golden all around. Peel, halve, deseed, and dice the cucumber. Wash, halve, deseed, and dice the tomatoes and bell pepper.
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3.
Combine cucumber, bell pepper, tomatoes, basil, extra‑virgin olive oil, apple cider vinegar, salt, and pepper. Let sit for 5 minutes, then spoon into small glasses and top each with a meatball to serve as a bite‑size starter.