Spicy Speculaar Dutch Meatballs - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 slices thin bacon
3 speculaas (cookies)
400 g ground beef (14 ounces)
1 1/2 teaspoons spices (speculaas)
3 tablespoons ketjap manis (not sure if you have a name for this in English but it's an Indonesian sweet soya sauce)
1 tablespoon sambal bajak, hot Indonesian sauce made from chile
1 tablespoon butter

Preparation

Cut the bacon into very thin strips.
Ground the cookies into fine crumbs and mix them with the speculaar spice powder, ketjap, sambal and bacon, then mix all of it throughly with the ground beef.
Roll the mixture into balls (about 24 of them).
Heat the butter in a large pan and cook for about 10 minutes on a low heat until golden brown and cooked though.
Serve while warm with a little extra sambal.