Kefta tagine
- Lactose free
- Gluten free
Derived from ingredients – check the package label.
- Good for lunch
- Good for dinner
Beef meatballs braised in tomato sauce with eggs and cumin, without a side.
4 servingsFinal yield 2,020 g
Ingredients
- 850 gBeef, ground, 85% lean meat / 15% fat, raw (Includes foods for USDA's Food Distribution Program)
- 800 gTomato sauce, canned, no salt added
- 240 gEgg, whole, raw, fresh
- 180 gOnions, raw
- 25 gGarlic, raw
- 6 gSpices, cumin seed
- 25 gOil, olive, salad or cooking
- 5 gSalt, table
- 10 gParsley, fresh
- 10 gCoriander (cilantro) leaves, raw
- 4 gSpices, paprika
Method
- Mix beef with 3 g cumin, salt and 20 g chopped parsley and coriander and form 16 balls; chop onion and garlic.
- Fry meatballs in 25 g oil at 180 °C for 6 minutes; add onion, garlic and remaining 3 g cumin for 4 minutes.
- Add 800 g tomato sauce with 4 g ground paprika and braise 18 minutes at 90 °C to 74 °C inside the meatballs.
- Make four wells in sauce, add 240 g eggs, cover and cook 6 minutes.
Recipe tradition
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Nutrition
Calculated from the selected ingredients; not a laboratory measurement.
Whole recipe
- Energy
- 2,732.6 kcal
- Protein
- 203.5 g
- Fat
- 180 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 75.1 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 18.2 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 60.2 g
- Sodium
- 2,962.7 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 7.4 g
Per serving
- Energy
- 683.2 kcal
- Protein
- 50.9 g
- Fat
- 45 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 18.8 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 4.6 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 15 g
- Sodium
- 740.7 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 1.9 g
Per 100 g of finished food
- Energy
- 135.3 kcal
- Protein
- 10.1 g
- Fat
- 8.9 g
- Total carbohydrate (by difference)
- 3.7 g
- Total dietary fibre (USDA)
- 0.9 g
- Saturated fatty acids
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 146.7 mg
- Salt (sodium × 2.5)
- 0.37 g
Salt is calculated from sodium (g salt = mg sodium × 2.5 / 1000) and includes sodium from all ingredients.
A dash means the value is unknown, not zero.
Calculation limitations
- Nutrition is a calculated estimate, not a laboratory measurement.
- The final yield is an editorial estimate.
- The number of servings is an editorial estimate (midpoint of the source range or based on the dish type and energy).
- Fibre, saturated fat and sodium of cooked ingredients are estimated from the consumed ingredient amounts; for drained ingredients, sodium is included only where the retained amount is an explicit editorial estimate.
- Some process effects could not be resolved in this calculation.
Allergens
Contains: Egg
Derived from ingredients – check the package label.
Food data sources
- USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy (2018-04) · USDA Agricultural Research Service, FoodData Central SR Legacy. · CC0 1.0 Universal