Mititei (Grilled minced meat rolls)

Ingredients

• •2 pounds ground beef
• •½ pound suet
• •¼ pound baking soda
• •2 to 3 garlic cloves
• •Ground pepper
• •Juniper berries and caraway
• •2 to 3 tablespoons meat broth
• •Salt

Directions

1. 1Grind the meat together with the suet. 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.
2. 2Keep the bowl with this mixture on ice for 5 to 6 hours. Just before grilling, take tablespoons of the mixture and with wet hands, shape the rolls (they are approximately 2 to 3 inches long and 1 inch thick).
3. 3Before placing on the grill, grease them with oil and during grilling baste them with a mixture of meat broth and oil.