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Sopa en la Fonda (Soup at the Fonda)?

We have explored the breakfast offerings; now lets see what’s for lunch. We know from previous posts that most fonda’s will have a sopa offering every day. Sopa is the Spanish word for soup. Wow we learned another Spanish food word. Sancocho or sopa de mariscos are a couple of sopa’s popular in Panama. Sopa de mariscocs is seafood soup. We searched the internet for a great recipe for this, and…

As someone said experience is the best teacher, my trial and error experiments gave me confidence for trying new new recipes out of my comfort zone. Minced meat is so versatile ingredient, and I used to make many variety and styles of dishes with this. Meat is hubby’s favorite item too. But he likes our Indianish preferably Kerala dishes always. I used to get bored with same kind of taste and he agreed to have something different from our usual niche once in a week for main meal.

This meat ball with creamy sauce is soo comforting and goes very well with rice , any bread of your choice or mashed potatoes too. Not loaded with sooo much of spices, cute little pan seared balls paired very well with this simple creamy sauce. Very simple recipe, easily available ingredients with three small steps – make meat balls, pan fry it, whip up the sauce and mix the fried meat balls and you are ready to go. We served it with boiled basmathi rice and once had with Multi Layered Indian Flat Bread too. 

Hope you will like as much we did, don’t forget to give the feedback.

Recipe adapted from Damndelicious.

Serves – 2 to 4

Ingredients :-

Onion – 1 small

Ground meat – 200 g (I used beef)

Oats ground – 3 to 4 table spoon

Garam masala powder  (All spice) – 1/2 tsp

Minced Garlic – 1 clove

Egg – 1

Finely chopped parsley – 1 table spoon + more for garnishing

Salt & pepper – to taste

For the sauce

Butter – 2 table spoon

Olive oil – 2 table spoon

All purpose flour – 2 table spoon

Beef stock cube – 1 (See note)

Water – 1 1/2 cup (see note)

Mustard paste – 1 tea spoon

sour cream – 1/2 cup

Salt& pepper – to taste.

Direction :

  Heat 1 table spoon olive oil in a pan, saute chopped onion untill light golden color.

Take cooked onion, and rest of the other ingredients in a bowl and mix and incorporate well with your hands. Make evenly sized balls and keep aside. (I got 36 small balls)

In the same pan used for sauteing onion, heat another 1 table spoon of oil and cook the prepared meat balls untill golden color on all sides in low to medium flame and take it out.

In the same skillet add the butter. when it melted, add in flour and mix thoroughly.

Now add the water and beef stock cube and incorporate well.

Then add sour cream and mustard paste and mix well.

Season with salt and pepper and keep it in simmer untill sauce starts thickening.

Now add back meat balls and simmer again for 5 to 6 minutes.

Sprinkle chopped parsley and Serve hot with your rice/mashed potatoes/bread.

Tips & Tricks :-

You can use beef broth instead of water and stock cube.

I also used to add green chilli paste sometimes while making sauce and meatballs, to get the hot kick.

Bread crumbs can also be used instead of powdered oats.