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Ingredients
Mini Meatballs in Pita Bread
- Ingredients
- 2 Tbsps Caper (about 30 grams, in a jar)
- 1 onion
- 1 lb Ground sirloin
- 1 egg
- 5 Tbsps breadcrumbs (about 50 grams)
- 2 tsps Mustard (about 15 grams)
- salt
- peppers
- 1 Tbsp Canola oil
- 4 sprigs mint
- 1 lemon
- 9 ozs Buttermilk quark (or Greek yogurt)
- 5 Tbsps
- 2 carrots (about 200 grams)
- 1 Kohlrabi (about 250 grams)
- 1 large Flatbread (about 500 grams)
Drain the capers and coarsely chop. Peel the onion and finely chop.
Combine ground beef, egg, breadcrumbs, mustard, capers and onions in a large bowl. Mix with dough hook of a hand mixer until well combined. Season well with salt and pepper.
With moistened hands, form the meat mixture into 24 small, flat patties. Heat the oil in a large non-stick pan over medium heat. Add the meatballs and cook until browned all over, about 5 minutes. Let cool on a large plate.
Rinse mint, shake dry, pluck leaves and finely chop. Rinse lemon with hot water, wipe dry and finely grate 1-2 teaspoon of lemon zest. (Reserve remaining lemon for another use.)
Combine quark and milk in a bowl and stir until smooth. Stir in mint and lemon zest. Season with salt and pepper.
Rinse, peel and coarsely grate carrots and kohlrabi.
Cut the bread into 6 wedges (like a pie). Split each piece in half horizontally and spread all halves with mint sauce.
Top upper halves with grated carrots and bottom halves with kohlrabi.
Place 4 mini meatballs on each bottom half and then sandwich with top halves. (Tightly wrap each sandwich in plastic wrap if desired.)
(Percentage of daily recommendation)
Calorie | 447 cal. | (21 %) | ||
Protein | 41 g | (42 %) | ||
Fat | 7 g | (6 %) | ||
Carbohydrates | 52 g | (35 %) | ||
Sugar added | 0 g | (0 %) | ||
Roughage | 4.5 g | (15 %) |
Healthy, because
The low-fat mini-beefsteak meatballs add protein and iron to the plate, the raw vegetables provide vitamins and fibre, and the mint curd adds freshness and bone-strengthening calcium.
Even smarter
If you want as much fiber as possible, use flat bread made from wholemeal flour.