Grilled Minced Meat Rolls

Description
In Romanian: Mititei

Ingredients

 * 2 lbs / 1 kg ground beef
 * ½ lb / 250 g suet (raw beef or mutton fat, especially the hard fat found around the loins and kidneys).
 * ¼ teaspoon baking soda
 * 2 – 3 garlic cloves
 * some ground pepper
 * juniper berries and caraway
 * 2 – 3 tablespoons meat broth
 * salt

Directions

 * 1) Grind the meat together with the suet.
 * 2) Add salt, spices, chopped garlic, meat broth and baking soda and mix everything with your hands for 15 minutes, adding two tablespoons of water a little at a time.
 * 3) Keep the bowl with this mixture on ice for 5 – 6 hours.
 * 4) Just before grilling, take tablespoons of the mixture and with wet hands, shape the rolls (they are approx. 2 – 3 inches long and 1 inch thick).
 * 5) Before placing on the grill, grease them with oil and during grilling baste them with a mixture of meat broth and oil.