Baked meatballs with twice-cooked kawakawa kumara and peas Recipe | Beef + Lamb New Zealand

Ingredients

• 1kg Quality Mark beef mince
• 2 onions
• 1 heaped Tbsp fresh herbs i
• ½ cup tomato sauce
• 3 Tbsp vegetable oil
• 10 garlic cloves
• 2 thumb sized fresh ginger
• ¼ tsp chilli flakes
• 200g button mushrooms
• 1 large carrots
• 2 x 400g canned chopped tomatoes
• 1 400g can chickpeas
• 3 Tbsp soy sauce
• ¼ cup white flour
• 1 tsp kosher salt
• 150g tasty Cheddar cheese
• 6 small kūmara i
• 50g butter
• 2 kawakawa
• 2 Tbsp sesame seeds i
• 200g green peas
• 1 tsp extra virgin olive oil
• 15 leaves mint leaves
• ½ spring onion