Movie Recipes

This is the actual recipe inspired by The Curious Case of Benjamin Button for our series of 2009 Oscar party dishes.

• 1 lb ground mutton
• 1/2 cup orange juice
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 2 Tbsp chopped mint leaves
• 2 Tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tsp ground ginger
• 10 crackers
• 1 can mandarin oranges
• mint leaves
• toothpicks

Begin by mixing the orange juice, chopped mint leaves, ground ginger, soy sauce, and brown sugar in a large bowl.  Once they are appropriately mixed, add in the ground mutton and mix with your hands until all of the mixture is absorbed.  Next, crumble up 10 crackers and mix that into the mutton.  Roll into approximately one inch balls and bake in the oven for 40 minutes at 300 degrees.   Meanwhile, drain the can of mandarin oranges.  Once the meatballs are finished cooking, place a toothpick in the middle of the meatball vertically.  Lastly, garnish with a mandarin orange segment and mint leaf on top.

Makes about 24 meatballs