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Greek meatballs - Soutzoukakia by Greek chef Akis Petretzikis. A authentic traditional Greek recipe to make extremely aromatic meatballs in a rich tomato sauce! These baked meatballs are infused with the aromas of cumin and soaked in a tasty and rich.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook savory soutzoukakia using 21 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Savory soutzoukakia:
- Take For the meatballs
- Make ready 500 g beef mince
- Get 150 g lamb mince
- Prepare 1 grated onion
- Make ready 3 garlic cloves (crushed)
- Take 1 egg
- Prepare 2 slices stale white bread soaked in (red or white) wine until completely soft
- Make ready 2 tbsp chopped parsley
- Prepare salt, pepper
- Take 1/2 tsp ground cumin
- Get 1/2 cup olive oil
- Get For the sauce
- Take 500 g tinned tomatoes or passata
- Get 1 grated onion
- Make ready 2 minced garlic cloves
- Get 2 tbsp chopped parsley
- Take 1 tbsp chopped basil
- Take pimento, cloves and cinnamon stick
- Prepare salt, pepper
- Get 2 glass water
- Prepare 1/2 cup olive oil
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Steps to make Savory soutzoukakia:
- For the meatballsStart by soaking the bread. Let the bread absorb the liquid for a few minutes. Squeeze out the liquid from the bread, crumble it and add to the large bowl with all the other ingredientsmince, onion, garlic, egg, parsley, salt, pepper, cumin, olive oil. Knead until everything has become pliable and well incorporated.
- Place in the fridge for at least an hour. The texture should be so, that you must be able to form the balls easily. The classic shape for soutzoukakia is not round, but oblong and it is medium in size.
- In a large skillet heat 2-3 tbsp of olive oil and add the meatballs. In a medium temperature brown them from all sides slowly. Don’t burn them! The whole process takes about 20 minutes.
- Remove them from the pan and set them aside.
- Prepare the sauceAdd 1/2 cup of olive oil in a pan and sauté the onion and the garlic. Then add the tomatoes, parsley, basil, pimento, cloves, cinnamon stick, salt, pepper and the 2 glass of water. Let everything simmer until the tomatoes have cooked, about 20 minutes.
- When the sauce is ready, add the meatballs and let them boil in the sauce for 10 minutes.
- Serve with rice, pasta or mashed potatoes.
Those 'meatballs' are not typical round but oval shaped and served with delicious tomato. Soutzoukakia: delicious beef meatballs in rich tomato sauce spiced with cumin and cinnamon. Perfect for sharing as meze or as a main meal. Σουτζουκάκια με κόκκινη σάλτσα και ρύζι από την Αργυρώ Μπαρμπαρίγου Από τις πιο λαχταριστές συνταγές με κιμά. Ακολουθήστε την και εισπράξτε συγχαρητήρια! Soutzoukakia is a delightful and tempting delicacy.
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