Spicy flaming hot little meatballs!
Meatballs of any kind are some of the most popular hors d'oeuvres for a New Years Eve party that there is. People like meatballs, especially at a cocktail party. Football fans that throw a bowl game party or playoff game party almost always offer meatballs to their guests. Usually party hors d'oeuvre meatballs are Swedish Meatballs or Italian Meatballs and there are actually people who think that those two styles of meatballs are the only kinds of meatballs that there is in the world! I have posted recipes for traditional Swedish, Italian, Arabic, Moroccan and Chinese meatballs in this food blog so far and there are many more traditional meatball recipes yet to go. Today I decided to create a very spicy meatball recipe that surely will give the spiciest hot chicken wing recipe a run for the money. First of all, the red saucy coating on these meatballs is the mildest part of the recipe. Only mild paprika and organic red food coloring was used to give the meatball coating sauce its red color. Paprika is as mild as chile peppers get. I do realize that it the mild red meatball coating is diabolically deceptive, but that is part of the fun of the hot chile pepper game. When somebody picks up one of these meatballs by the toothpick and cautiously tastes the red coating before biting into the meatball, their first thought will be that the meatballs are not spicy at all. Then when the meatball is popped in the mouth with confidence that it will not be spicy hot and the chomping starts, that is when the fire alarms start going off! It is not the sauce that makes these meatballs spicy hot. It is the spicy hot ground chile peppers that are mixed in with the ground beef that makes these meatballs taste like incendiary devices. The ground beef is what is spicy hot and that is how a spicy meatball should be!
Balls Of Fire: Some of the dried chile peppers in this recipe are a little bit hard to find in the form of a ground powder (chile molido). These peppers are easy to find as dried whole chile peppers. Mexican markets are the best place to find any kind of dried hot chile pepper. A spice grinder, food processor or a Turkish coffee grinder can be used to grind whole dried chile peppers into powder. Place 8 ounces of ground beef in a mixing bowl. Add white pepper. Add sea salt and black pepper. Add 1/4 teaspoon of ginger powder. Add 1/4 teaspoon of garlic powder. Add 1/2 teaspoon of Spanish paprika. Add 2 dried habanero peppers that are ground. Add 3 chile arbol that are ground. Add 1/2 teaspoon of ground chile pequin. Add 1/2 teaspoon of New Mexico chile powder. Add 1/2 teaspoon of Chinese chile powder. (Ground dried red serrano or chile japones) Thoroughly mix the ingredients together. Refrigerate the spicy ground beef mixture for 1 hour, so the ground dried chile peppers color the ground beef red and so the chile pepper powder releases its flavor. Divide the spicy ground beef mixture into portions that weigh 3/4 ounce apiece. (3/4 ounce is about 21 grams.) Roll the ground meat portions into smooth round meatball shapes. Place the spice meatball in a roasting pan. Bake the meatballs in a 350 degree oven, till they become fully cooked and very lightly browned. Be sure to shake the pan occasionally, so the meatballs do nor stick to the pan! The coating sauce can be made while the meatballs bake! Place 1 tablespoon of Spanish paprika in a a small mixing bowl. Add 1/3 cup of water. Add 1/2 teaspoon of rice vinegar. Add 1/2 teaspoon of vegetable oil. Add sea salt. Add 2 drops of concentrated red beet juice food coloring or 2 drops of regular red food coloring. Stir the ingredients together. The paprika will reconstitute and thicken the sauce. When the meatballs become fully cooked, place them in the mixing bowl with the coating sauce. Gently toss the meatballs with the sauce, till they become coated. Decoratively drizzle streaks and drops of your favorite green, orange and red colored hot sauces on a plate. Spear the balls of fire with toothpicks and place them on the plate.
Balls Of Fire is an appropriate name for this hors d'oeuvre meatball recipe! The first meatball that is consumed will give most people a nice little endorphin rush from the spicy heat. These are some flaming hot balls of fire! Yum! ... Shawna
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