This easy lamb meatball curry is a healthy filling recipe for any night of the week. Make it as mild or as hot as you like. It's full of flavour and perfect for your next curry night!

If you have read this blog for a while you'll know that I love curries! In fact, a good curry is hard to beat and probably one of my favourite meals. Homemade, takeaway or ready meal, I am always happy to eat a good curry.
In fact, I do not think I have ever turned down the opportunity to eat a curry. If you love curries as much as I do then do check out my collection of easy homemade curries from scratch!
What is this lamb meatball curry like?
The sauce is delicious. It's full of spice but not too hot and the coconut milk makes it deliciously creamy too. The lamb meatballs are packed with ginger, garlic and coriander which makes them super tasty.
As they cook in the sauce they soak up even more of the delicious spices. They are tender and full of flavour.
The great thing about this lamb meatball curry
The great thing about meatballs is they cook much more quickly than lamb. If you're making a lamb curry with pieces of meat it's usually best to cook it for a long time to make it tender and delicious, like this lamb vindaloo.
However, lamb meatballs cook much more quickly and meatballs are really easy to eat. As you make the meatballs you can easily get loads of flavour into them too. The fresh herbs, garlic and ginger make these ones really tasty. They're also really child friendly.
If you haven't made a curry with meatballs, why not? Lamb meatballs are fantastic in a curry.
Are the meatballs easy to make?
Yes, these meatballs are so easy to make. Just put all the ingredients into a bowl and mix together with your fingers. You can then just taken handfuls of the mixture and roll into balls between your hands.
These meatballs cook in the sauce too so you only need one pan. Less washing up is always a bonus!

How to adapt the heat in this lamb meatball curry
The main way I ofen adapt curries is to make them hotter or milder. This curry is fairly mild so if you want a hotter curry, add more chilli. You can do this by adding one or two sliced chilli peppers to the onions when you are frying them.
You can also add a few whole chilli peppers to the sauce but pricked with a knife so they gently add more chilli heat.
Another simple way to add more heat is to add an extra dried chilli pepper crumbled into the sauce.
Can you use a different meat?
Yes, this meatball curry also works really well made with chicken or turkey mince.
Can you make it vegetarian?
Yes, you could use a meat substitute mince. You could even just use this sauce but with pieces of paneer instead of the meatballs.
What can you eat with this lamb meatball curry?
I love serving this lamb kofta curry with plain basmati rice. However, it is also delicious with Indian flatbreads such as these nigella seed flatbreads.
Why not also make some onion bhajis to go with it or a vegetarian side dish such as this dried curried okra?
Did the children eat this curry?
I've made this a few time and had mixed results. Sometimes they gobble it up and sometimes they claim they don't like meatballs without even trying them!
I have to admit that they do sometimes complain about the green bits of spinach in the sauce. Overall, it's a pretty good recipe to keep them happy though!
How long does this curry keep for?
Like lots of curries, this curry is a great one to cook in bulk and then reheat another day. It'll keep well for at least three days in the fridge and will actually taste even better! Just reheat throughly in the oven, a saucepan or the microwave.
You can also freeze it for up to three months too. I usually freeze it in individual portions so it's easy to defrost if just one of us is eating it later.

My other lamb curries
If you like this lamb meatball curry then why not try one of these other lamb curries?
- Bombay lamb curry
- Lamb saag (lamb and spinach curry)
- Lamb rogan josh
- Lamb Jalfrezi
- Lamb keema stuffed peppers
Recipe

Lamb Meatball Curry with Coconut Gravy
Ingredients
For the Meatballs
- 500 g lamb minced
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon garam masala
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped ginger or easy ginger
- 3 cloves garlic crushed
- 2 tablespoon chopped fresh coriander
- ½ medium onion finely diced
For the Sauce
- 2 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 large onion finely diced
- 400 g tin of tomatoes or 4 roughly chopped tomatoes
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1 tablespoon chopped ginger
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon turmeric
- 1 teaspoon cumin
- 2 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1 teaspoon garam masala
- 1 dried red chilli crumbled up (use more or less to taste)
- 2 large handfuls spinach
- 400 g tin coconut milk
- Pinch Salt to taste
- 1 handful of coriander including stalks including stalkschopped
Instructions
- Put all the ingredients for the meatballs into a large bowl and mix together with your hands. Form into meataballs and put them in the fridge until you are ready to cook them.
- Heat the oil in a large frying pan. Fry the onions gently for about 5 minutes until soft.
- While the onions are frying, put the tomatoes, ginger and garlic into the food processor and blitz.
- Stir all the spices into the pan with the onions and cook for a minute. Stir in the blended tomato mixture.
- Continue to cook for about 10 minutes.
- Add the spinach. Put it on top of the curry. It will wilt. Then stir it in and add the coconut milk.
- Bring it up to the boil then add the meatballs carefully. Cover the pan and let it simmer gently for 20 minutes until the meatballs are cooked through.
- Season with a little salt and pepper at the end if necessary. Stir in some of the chopped coriander and then garnish with the remainder when serving.
Notes
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Places I'm sharing this lamb meatball curry
Cook Blog Share hosted by Eb at Easy Peasy Foodie
Lynn | The Road to Honey
My hubby is a big lamb fan so I know these meatballs would be right up his alley He's always telling me that one of the things he misses the most about Kenya is the good Indian food that was readily available.
Corina
I've heard you can get great Indian food in Kenya! I know I would miss some foods from here if I moved abroad, despite loving to try new things as well.
Elaine @ Dishes Delish
I've never made curry with lamb. Your recipe looks so delicious! I've got to try it soon. Your photos are also gorgeous!
Corina
Oh I love lamb curries. I think lamb goes so well with spices as it's got a strong flavour - do let me know if you try it! So pleased you like the photos too as I'm trying to work on my photography at the moment!
Gabby | The Tolerant Table
I adore a good curry too, Corina! Perfect weather for it over here at the moment, it's so cold ☹️ I can't say I've ever put meatballs in one either though so excellent excuse to try this out. Looks delicious
Corina
Thanks Gabby! I do hope you like it if you have time to make it. I don't think I'd put meatballs in a curry before but they go so well and as they were cooked in the sauce it was very easy too!
Nicole
Yummy! I would have never thought to do meatball curry - and yet I love both meatballs and curry! What a great idea!!!
Corina
The meatballs go so well in the curry and as they cook in the sauce you don't need to use any extra pans which is great too!
Derek
Love curry! I wish I could get my son to eat things like this but, yep - gotta love those picky eaters!
Corina
I was lucky my son loved the meatballs. Unfortunately I wasn't so lucky with my daughter but as long as one of them likes a recipe I'm happy!
Gloria @ Homemade & Yummy
I just bought some ground lamb!! This looks divine. Next rainy day when we are not grilling, I need to give this a try. Delicious.
Corina
I hope you enjoy it Gloria!
Azlin Bloor
Who doesn't like a good curry, and a good lamb meatball curry, at that?! Sounds like coconut chilli do a great range.
Corina
Yes, I only tried one of the curries in the Coconut Chilli range but it was really good and I enjoyed recreating it.
Jeni
This makes me wish we lived in the UK! My husband is from London and his fmaily would be over the moon if we moved there of course 🙂 I too have eaten less spice since I had my baby. And your tolerance certainly is affected! Once I'm no longer nursing any babies, though, I'm going right back to hot hot curry!
Corina
You can't beat a good curry, can you?
Sarah James @ Tales From The Kitchen Shed
What a delicious recipe Corina, I love a good curry. I like how you've used coconut milk with the spices and the addition of spinach. Will be trying this soon.
Corina
Thanks Sarah! I think adding spinach is a great way of getting just a little extra nutrition into a curry as well as going so well with the spices. I hope you enjoy it!
Marie-Pierre Breton
I have to agree with you on this! Curries are great! Hard to resist and I love this twist with lamb meat balls! It' s a great idea, plus as you've said it: easy to do. I'll definitely be doing this soon!
Corina
Thanks Marie-Pierre! I hope you enjoy it.
Ariella
This sounds amazing. I love you plated this dish.
Corina
Thank you Ariella!
Constance
This looks absolutely delicious. I LOVE the combination of coconut and curry together. I also love a good lamb recipe. I should give this one a try and see what the family thinks.
Corina
Oh I do hope they like it! Lamb is great in a curry, isn't it?
Jo @ Jo's Kitchen Larder
Oh I do love curry too! The one I usually make with mince is keema which kids love but your meatballs sounds absolutely divine and I'm sure will go down a storm in our house. Pinned! x
Corina
I hope you enjoy it! Do you have your mince keema curry on your blog? I'll have to take a look x
Jo @ Jo's Kitchen Larder
Not on the blog yet but hopefully very soon 🙂 x
Monika Dabrowski
This is comfort food at its best, full of flavour and goodness. #CookBlogShare
Corina
Thanks Monika! I wish I had some left for lunch today!
Eb Gargano | Easy Peasy Foodie
This sounds delicious! I am like you - I just love a good curry!! Though I am not great with really hot ones, I prefer mild to medium curries, but with lots of spice! I find if a curry is too hot, all I can taste is the chilli and none of the delicious spices and other ingredients. Also, these days I tend to make my curries fairly mild so my kids will eat them without complaining too much! 😀 Thanks for linking this up to #CookBlogShare! Eb x
Corina
It's funny how our tastes are forced to change because of our children, isn't it? I used to be able to eat quite hot curries but not any more! x
TurksWhoEat
Beautiful! And it sounds delicious!
Corina
Thanks! It is yummy!