Recipe - Cutlis (Meatballs)

225 g Beef
2 5 g salt
One half teaspoon Black pepper
25 ml Vinegar
450 g Potato
1 Onion
3 Sprigs mint leaves
1 Green chilli
1 Stalk celery
1 One fourth Litres oil
1 Egg
50 g Breadcrumbs

Mince the beef and season with salt, pepper and vinegar. Boil and mash the
potato and chop the onion, mint leaves, chilli and celery. Heat the oil in
a frying pan, add the beef and cook for 34 minutes until browned. Add the
onion, mint leaves, chilli and celery and cook until the onion has
softened slightly. Add the mashed potato and mix well together. Roll into
small balls or flat cakes. Beat the eggs and coat the cutlis with the egg
before dipping into the breadcrumbs. Heat the oil and deep fry the cutlis
until browned. Drain well From: "A taste of Sri Lanka" by Indra Jayasekera,
ISBN 962 224 010 0

From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini