Pickled Meat Balls

Description
In Romanian: Chiftele marinate

Ingredients

 * 1 lb / 500 g ground meat (beef)
 * 3 onions
 * 1 egg
 * 2 slices white bread
 * 1 tablespoon lard
 * chopped parsley and dill
 * salt
 * pepper
 * 4 - 5 tomatoes or 1 tablespoon tomato sauce
 * 1 small onion
 * 2 - 3 juniper berries
 * 1 bay leaf
 * ½ teaspoon sugar
 * 1 - 2 tablespoons vinegar
 * salt
 * chopped parsley and dill
 * lard for frying
 * flour (1 - 2 tablespoons)

Directions

 * 1) Grind the meat with a raw onion, soaked and squeezed bread and two finely chopped and lightly fried (in a tablespoon of lard) onions.
 * 2) Place the mixture in a bowl, add an egg, salt, pepper and chopped parsley and dill.
 * 3) Mix everything well.
 * 4) Take tablespoons of the mixture and with wet hands shape into balls.
 * 5) Dredge with flour and fry lightly in a pan with hot lard.
 * 6) Fry quickly at hot temperature, on all sides.
 * 7) Arrange the fried meat balls in a pan and cover with the following sauce.
 * 8) Put a finely chopped onion in the pan where the meat balls were fried and fry it with ½ teaspoon flour and then add the boiled and strained tomatoes.
 * 9) Add salt, sugar, juniper berries, bay leaf, vinegar and chopped parsley and dill.
 * 10) Simmer, shaking the pan from time to time.