In a baking bowl, stir together egg, crème fraîche, mustard and paprika. Add minced meat, ham and dill. Cut the chives with scissors. Season everything with salt and pepper and mix to a meat dough. Form small balls with lightly floured hands.
Heat clarified butter in a pan and fry the meatballs in it all around. Remove.
Add butter to the drippings. Sauté the mushrooms, draw juice, evaporate on large fire. Add onion and bell bell pepper and sauté. Add Noilly Prat, white wine and soup and cook until well reduced. Stir crème fraîche with a little hot sauce and add. Season with salt and pepper. Add the gherkin.
Add the meatballs and cook open for five to six minutes, the sauce should boil a little bit repeatedly, so that it binds slightly. Turn the meatballs once to the other side.
Finally, sprinkle the dish with chopped dill.
For the small household, starting from the recipe for four people:
Two people: for minced meat mixture, instead of one egg, use only one egg yolk, halve remaining ingredients.
One person: For minced meat mixture, omit egg altogether (crème fraîche is actually sufficient for binding). Cook sauce with a quarter dl Noilly Prat, a quarter dl white wine, half a dl soup and half a dl crème fraîche.
Our tip: Fresh chives are much more aromatic than dried ones!