Recipe for anemic babies, toddelers and kids: Sardine meatballs with vegetables

Sardines meatballs Tajine

My child is anemic: a recipe?

If you have anemia or if someone around you is anemic, sardines are for you; because what could be better than freshly caught sardines to improve your iron stock?
But if your child for example refuses to eat sardines (like my 3 old years daughter), here is a clever recipe to get around this: Sardines meatballs !

Recipe for anemic people: Sardine meatballs with vegetables Tajine

Sardines, lemon, garlic, coriander, parsley, extra virgin olive oil

Ingredients for 4 persons:

• 1kg of sardines cleaned (flaked, emptied and headless, which will ultimately give about 700 g of sardine meat).
• 4 garlic cloves.
• 4 tablespoons chopped cilantro and parsley.
• 1 squeezed lemon.
• 5 tablespoons olive oil.
• 1/2 tsp salt.
• 1/2 tsp pepper.
• 1 tsp paprika.
• 1 tsp cumin.
• 1 tsp turmeric.
• 2 potatoes cut into rings.
• 2 carrots cut in length.
• 1 tomato cut into rings.

Tomato + potatoes + carrots

Preparation:

1. Chop the sardines until you have minced meat.

Sardines

Chopped sardines 

2. Chop the coriander / parsley and garlic in a chopper and mix with the oil, lemon and condiments.

Mix of condiments + garlic + lemon juice + olive oil

3. Divide the mixture between two equal parts.
4. Mix one with the ground meat; and spread the other over the vegetables.
5. Make sardines meatballs.

Sardines meatballs

6. Place the vegetables in a medium pot and then liquefy with boiling water. Warning! Make sure to add only a little water, otherwise the sardines will crumble and you will end up with a broth of sardines!

Vegetables

7. Place the sardine balls on top of the vegetables.

Sardines meatballs

8. Simmer 25 to 30 min.

9. Serve hot, ideally in a beautiful porcelain tagine.

Sardines meatballs Tajine (Morocco)

Enjoy your meal!

PS: Traditionally, the tagine (the dish) is simmered in the tagine (this porcelain dish) and not in a pot. The latter is therefore not only used for serving.

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