Täve (one tray rice dish from Albania)

Täve is a super easy, one tray rice dish from Albania! <3

Cost per person $4

 

Ingredients:

Your choice of vegetable: I used:

1 onion diced (I set aside ¼ for the meatballs)

1 potato, diced into small cubes

1 leek, roughly chopped

(you can also use: capsicum, eggplant, etc)

 

For the meatballs:

500g mince (use a mince with around 18% fat)

¼ onion

1 tsp paprika or cumin, optional

Salt and pepper

1/3 cup soda water or regular water

 

1 tsp paprika, optional

1 tsp oregano, optional

2 tbsp tomato paste

2 tbsp butter or oil

1 cup rice

1 ¾ water

 

Method

Prepare the veggies, place in a bowl and season with salt and pepper. Set aside for now.

To make the meatballs – combine the mince, onion, paprika, and pepper and soda water, and mix well to combine. Roll into large meatballs and set aside.

In a pan that can go in the oven, toast the rice in butter or oil. If you don’t have a pan that can go in the oven, just fry this off in a pan for now and transfer to a tray after toasting.

Add the paprika, oregano, and tomato paste, stir and fry off for 1 minute.

Turn the heat off. Add the water, a pinch of salt and stir.

Sprinkle on top the vegetables and place the meatballs.

Bake at 220 degrees Celsius for round 20-30 minutes, until the meat and the vegetables are cooked! It might need closer to 30 minutes if you using vegetable like potato.

I served it with a yogurt sauce – just yogurt, lemon juice, salt and pepper. You can also add a grated cucumber or garlic to the sauce!