Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, meatballs with orzo in tomato sauce🇬🇷. (giuvetsi me keftedakia). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
This is one of the very first dishes I made when I first got married and it is one of our top favorite dishes. It is a comfort food for me. Place the meatballs on some kitchen paper to dry. To prepare the tomato sauce, heat a deep pan over medium heat.
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The ingredients needed to make Meatballs with orzo in tomato sauce🇬🇷. (Giuvetsi me keftedakia):
- Prepare for meatballs
- Prepare 2 lbs ground beef
- Get 1/2 onion chopped
- Prepare 1 clove garlic chopped
- Get 2 eggs
- Take 1/2 cup bread crumbs
- Prepare 7-8 mint leafs chopped
- Take 2 tbs chicken stock
- Get 1/2 tsp Salt
- Take 1/2 tsp ground pepper
- Make ready Oil for frying
- Make ready for tomato sauce
- Get 1 small onion chopped
- Make ready 2 cloves garlic chopped
- Make ready 1 bay leaf
- Make ready 2 all spice balls
- Take 3-4 basil leafs chopped
- Take 1/2 cup crushed tomatoes
- Take 1/2 tsp tomato paste
- Prepare 1/4 cup olive oil
- Get 1 /cup water
- Take 1 cup orzo
Orzo pasta is a non-negotiable staple in my kitchen. 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. The raw meatball mixture is quite 'loose' and needs a gentle touch, but it will hold together (trust me).
Steps to make Meatballs with orzo in tomato sauce🇬🇷. (Giuvetsi me keftedakia):
- For the meatballs combine all ingredients and mix them
- 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
- Now in a big frying pan add the oil onion bay leaf all spice pepper and basil and fry at medium heat till glazed
- Add the rest of the ingredients except the orzo and cook for about 20 min at medium heat
- Now add the cooked meatballs and keep cooking for another 10 min
- Now add the orzo and cook to your liking remember orzo will expend quite a bit
- You can top with some shredded parmigiana or mizithra cheese enjoy Kali orexi
It makes for wonderful, cosy one-pot dishes, of which this is a pre-eminent example. 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. You absolutely can cook the sauce and the meatballs together!
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