Recipe: Tasty Meatballs with orzo in tomato sauce🇬🇷. (Giuvetsi me keftedakia)

Meatballs with orzo in tomato sauce🇬🇷. (Giuvetsi me keftedakia). To prepare the tomato sauce, heat a deep pan over medium heat. Pour in the olive oil and the chopped onion and garlic and sauté. This is one of the very first dishes I made when I first got married and it is one of our top favorite dishes.

Simply dressed in butter and salt, and maybe a dusting of nutmeg or grated Parmesan, or indeed both, it often serves at my table as a substitute for rice or potatoes, and I regularly use it to cook what in Italian is pasta risottata, a kind of pasta risotto. It makes for wonderful, cosy one-pot dishes, of which this is a pre-eminent example. Add remaining oregano, cinnamon, and nutmeg, along with the tomatoes and broth. You can cook Meatballs with orzo in tomato sauce🇬🇷. (Giuvetsi me keftedakia) using 22 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Meatballs with orzo in tomato sauce🇬🇷. (Giuvetsi me keftedakia)

1. Prepare of for meatballs.
2. It's 2 lbs of ground beef.
3. It's 1/2 of onion chopped.
4. You need 1 clove of garlic chopped.
5. You need 2 of eggs.
6. Prepare 1/2 cup of bread crumbs.
7. Prepare 7-8 of mint leafs chopped.
8. You need 2 tbs of chicken stock.
9. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Salt.
10. You need 1/2 tsp of ground pepper.
11. Prepare of Oil for frying.
12. Prepare of for tomato sauce.
13. Prepare 1 of small onion chopped.
14. Prepare 2 cloves of garlic chopped.
15. It's 1 of bay leaf.
16. You need 2 of all spice balls.
17. You need 3-4 of basil leafs chopped.
18. Prepare 1/2 cup of crushed tomatoes.
19. You need 1/2 tsp of tomato paste.
20. You need 1/4 cup of olive oil.
21. It's 1 of /cup water.
22. Prepare 1 cup of orzo.

The raw meatball mixture is quite 'loose' and needs a gentle touch, but it will hold together (trust me). In Greece, these are considered top-notch picnic fare. Leftovers make a good second meal (so make more meatballs!) the next day added to a tomato sauce and used to top rice, or mashed potatoes, or pasta, or. Fill the empty tomato sauce can with water and add this to the Dutch oven as well.

Meatballs with orzo in tomato sauce🇬🇷. (Giuvetsi me keftedakia) step by step

1. For the meatballs combine all ingredients and mix them.
2. Make them in to small balls and than in a frying skillet add enough oil to cover about 1/4 of the meatballs and fry at medium heat turning occasionally.
3. Now in a big frying pan add the oil onion bay leaf all spice pepper and basil and fry at medium heat till glazed.
4. Add the rest of the ingredients except the orzo and cook for about 20 min at medium heat.
5. Now add the cooked meatballs and keep cooking for another 10 min.
6. Now add the orzo and cook to your liking remember orzo will expend quite a bit.
7. You can top with some shredded parmigiana or mizithra cheese enjoy Kali orexi.

Finely chop the onion, garlic and put them in the wok. Add sugar, salt, pepper, oregano, cumin, cinnamon, tomato paste and sauté. Then, put in the grated tomatoes, the water and mix. Heat the oil in a large pot over medium heat. Lower the heat to medium-low and cook to deepen the color for more flavor.