Hi there, Scott Merrick here and welcome to today's video. Today I want to show you how to make a really fantastic dish for dinner time, which really, really quick, really, really tasty but also really, really versatile as well. And it's called you may not have heard it before. It's called pseudo caca and you say that three times fast to the CAC Yeah, now to the caca as you said, aka aka i think is a Middle Eastern spiced meatballs cooked in a tomato sauce, and we're going to serve it today with some steamed rice which is really lovely. But you can also use the same mixture to make meatballs and cook it the same way. And instead of using instead of serving it with steamed rice, you can serve it with spaghetti as well so you can have like in spaghetti with meatballs in a tomato sauce.

And you can also use the same mixture for the meatballs for the meat to make burgers as well. Super, super tasty. really versatile recipe. So very very simple very very quick. What we're going to use is I've got 500 grams here of this is beef mince if it behaves itself and this is the two star means not the the five star superly mints you don't want that. And the reason is you may be thinking hang on Scott, you know, we we need the five star mints the one we don't find it's healthier.

Well, yes, it is. But we want the two star mints because the two star means has got a lot more fat in it. And unfortunately fat means flavor. So you're gonna have a lot more flavor in your your meatballs as well. Also, a lot of the fat will actually like come out of the the meatballs as well and that will actually mix with our tomato sauce and make it super super tasty and very rich indeed and really delicious. And so we've got the two star mins here.

We also used to restomod but you know, if you want to use the five statements, that's perfectly okay, it's still gonna it's still gonna taste great. And we've got to go into our basement. We're going to add half a cup of breadcrumbs. These are what's called panco crumbs. They're the closest thing you can get to like dry fresh breadcrumbs. You want it in the supermarket Asian grocery stores have them as well called panco pa nk O, super useful and I prefer them to the regular dried breadcrumbs again in a packet that can be a bit dry and style.

So I'm half a cup of these was a cup about regular tea cup. We've got two tins of crushed tomatoes which is going to form the sauce. We're going to cook the pseudo khaki M and I've got here an egg one egg, which will crack in here in a moment. I've got half a tablespoon of instant stock powder which is commanded the team will love that Pepper all our seasoning comes from what stock powder and also one tablespoon of Moroccan spice mix. This has got some beautiful beautiful flavors in it. Ku means coriander seed, paprika, salt, garlic, onion powder, all sorts of things.

But again easily find this in the spice section of the supermarket. So what we're going to do is come closer and I'll show you how we mix everything together. One quick thing which I forgotten to do sorry, is while we're mixing everything together, what we're going to do is we're going to heat up very very simply. Our two cans These are 400 grams age of crushed tomatoes. In a in a saucepan like this or pots or usually like a frying pan. Some of its large enough to see roughly the size you're going to need These retelling crushed tomatoes really delicious and produce us any kind of crisp tomatoes for the Italian ones.

I just a little bit sweeter and tomatoes in here. Turn it on. I'm just going to bring this up to like a gentle simmer while we're making our Maple Suzuka tomatoes sauce is just very very gently coming up to a simmer. And here is our basement. So what we do have a cup of breadcrumbs they go in one egg goes in like that. half a tablespoon of stock, Peridot and a tablespoon of the Moroccan spice mix.

If you don't have Moroccan spice mix, use something like Cajun spice mix. Portuguese spice mix something something Mediterranean spices, that all goes in like that site and then with unclean hands. just squish it all together to mix everything together thoroughly once you've mixed all your spices, breadcrumb egg and beef mints together, what we need to do now is to break them into 12 even sized PCs roughly they're roughly about the size of a golf ball roughly like them and roll them into a ball. And then with a nice ball like that, and then we want to do is just flatten them out. into like a, like a sausage shape like that, just like that. And that's the size of the cake if you want to make 12 of these, and I'm just going to pop them on to a plate, like that.

I'll make 12 of these now. And then when they're done, what we'll do is pop them into the tomato sauce. I've added nothing to this tomato sauce at all just straight out of two tins. And the reason I've done that is because because of all of the of the spices and seasoning and flavor that's actually in these two to calculate, when we put them in the tomato sauce, we're going to assume that it's very, very gently for about 20 to 30 minutes. And all of the flavor of this as a khaki, it's actually going to come out and go into the tomato sauce and flight and make it really really delicious. It's a really, really super, super simple dish.

Particularly for like a midweek meal. When you're coming home from a busy day at work, you come home make you mix up, heat up you tomorrow to two cans of tomatoes, pop some rice on or maybe bowl some spaghetti and in about 3020 to 30 minutes from start to finish, you can have a beautiful, beautiful dinner ready to go into the table for the family. So I'm going to get on with these making these at Sousa cat camp so I'll get back to you when they're finished. So that's our tutor, caca all rolled out so come closer you can see exactly what the weather look like and what the tomato sauce is doing as well. These are pieces of cake here you can see roughly about the size of my little finger and I allow three per person so this quantity will serve for people because they're very, very rich and when you actually cook the the Sousa khaki themselves, they actually swell up as well.

And get a little bit bigger. If you see here the tomato sauce just gently simmering bubbling away. Just well. What we do now is just put in our suits of khaki I just nestled them into the tomato sauce just like this. push them down. So you say roughly the size of saucepan you're going to need.

Just pushing down with your spoon. And what we'll do is we'll let these there's a cat here. Let's turn the heat up a little bit. Just gently cook in the tomato sauce for between usually between 20 to 30 minutes and lastly cooked over sounding a bit ambitious there The longer you can cook them if you can cook them for like like 4045 minutes really really slowly you get a better flavor but I found that 20 to 30 minutes is okay. You don't need to put a lid on this or you might have to do from time to time maybe like 510 minutes in like that is gently turn your meatballs around a little bit just turn them over so they're starting to cook on all sides and they'll cook very very gently or braid very gently asked you in the in the tomato sauce. The flavors of the Sousa Cable come into the tomato sauce and make the to run a sauce really delicious.

And then also the tomatoes will make the to the khaki really like beautiful, moist and tender as well. So I'll show you what these look I'm gonna cook these for 20 minutes and then I show you exactly what they look like. As soon as a cake you've been cooking now very gently for about 20 mins So come over and I'll show exactly what they look like. You can see the, the, the the fat that's come out of the the meatballs and or do we just give them a gentle stir. Stir these around a little bit, very gently. And we'll just take one out.

He's been cooking for 20 minutes. Now, why don't we have a different one? Ah, here we go. And the very the firm nice and firm. So this is what they look like after about 20 minutes. Now you can serve them like this straightaway.

What I'm going to do is cook them for another 10 minutes and then I'm going to add some chop Passey that I've got here, a little bit of fresh chopped parsley, and then We'll taste the source for seasoning, add some salt and pepper if we need to, and then we can serve it. So that's as soon as the khaki after 20 minutes. I'm giving you the 10 minutes and then we'll just check the seasoning for the source. And if we need to add some salt and pepper we can do that. And if not, then what then do is we can add some chopped parsley, I've got here the fresh chopped parsley. If you haven't got fresh parsley, that's okay, don't have to add it.

And then we're going to serve it with some nice steamed rice. So 30 minutes has gone past now they've been simmering away very, very gently and very nicely for half an hour. Come closer. And actually before we do that, though, actually they'll come closer and I'll show you what they look like these roses a cake here and they are delicious looking absolutely delicious. They're nice and firm. So they're cooked all the way through.

I'll just show you who's got a fork. The cooked all the way through. You see there, we're not too short too short just you know open one up nice and firm and cooks all the way through. I want to do now is I've got some some chat pastor here, that's about I know a tablespoon or so put that in. I had some of this in the fridge was about in give it a stir very gently because tomato sauce goes everywhere and some nice little bit of extra flavor. A little bit of extra color as well.

It's delicious. Let's use a CAD CAM What I want to do now is check the seasoning so clean spoon want to taste the sauce because I know this is a khaki gonna taste great. It tastes us or so. Wow, that's super delicious we added nothing to those cans of tomatoes at all, but the but the the seasoning and the flavor of the beef has made them absolutely beautiful. The sources that are a little bit bitter, I want to give you a bit of a tip. If you're making a tomato sauce, it could be for any reason at all.

And the sources are a little bit bitter to get rid of that bitterness, sugar. So what I'm going to do here is take a little bit of the about type two bar with that generous teaspoon of sugar. That's about half a teaspoon. Put that in there. Little bit of sugar in there. Give that a stir.

And that little bit of sugar will take away a lot of the bitterness that's in that tomato sauce. Different. The reason I use the Italian tomatoes in this dish, as opposed to local tomatoes or cans nowadays Meadows is because apparently Italian tomatoes got a nice around the flavor and they are. They're little, they're sweeter as well. They're not as quite acidic as the ones we we get locally. So there's a tip bit of sugar, teaspoon, half a teaspoon of sugar in your source, take away the witness.

I don't actually need to add any salt or pepper to this at all. Because that takes up. Fantastic. So all that's left to do now is to to serve it so I'll just get this stuff cleaned up and then we'll show you how we played it up. I'm just going to serve this to the CAC here With some plain steamed rice which I've got here, so I'm going to take some of this out put it onto my rice like this. We're going to put two on and then some sauce on top like that on top of my rice sauce.

There we have our beautiful Titicaca with stained basmati rice. This is a beautiful dish tastes fantastic it's really simple to me. Once you've made it once or twice you get really quick at it and it's a real great dish for like a midweek dinner for the family. And any left over to the cake here that you put into the fridge the next day. The flavors have really gone through the roof. Tomato sauce and and the meatballs and stick IKEA and it's even tastier the next day after it's been in the fridge overnight than it is when you first serve it.

So all I got to do now is actually try it because this is actually my lunch and going to be dinner for me and the family tonight. She's so good, really, really delicious. Excuse me. So that's Sousa caca beliefs in spice meatballs with steamed basmati rice. Hope you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you next time.

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