Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, savory soutzoukakia. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Savory soutzoukakia is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Savory soutzoukakia is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

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. Smyrna meatballs, known as soutzoukakia Smyrneika (Greek: σουτζουκάκια σμυρνέικα) or İzmir köfte (Turkish) is a Greek and Turkish dish of spicy oblong meatballs with cumin and garlic served in tomato.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have savory soutzoukakia using 21 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Savory soutzoukakia:

1. Get For the meatballs
2. Prepare 500 g beef mince
3. Make ready 150 g lamb mince
4. Prepare 1 grated onion
5. Take 3 garlic cloves (crushed)
6. Get 1 egg
7. Prepare 2 slices stale white bread soaked in (red or white) wine until completely soft
8. Prepare 2 tbsp chopped parsley
9. Get salt, pepper
10. Make ready 1/2 tsp ground cumin
11. Take 1/2 cup olive oil
12. Make ready For the sauce
13. Prepare 500 g tinned tomatoes or passata
14. Take 1 grated onion
15. Take 2 minced  garlic cloves
16. Prepare 2 tbsp chopped parsley
17. Take 1 tbsp chopped basil
18. Make ready pimento, cloves and cinnamon stick
19. Take salt, pepper
20. Take 2 glass water
21. Prepare 1/2 cup olive oil

All this nostalgia had to go somewhere, so I made some soutzoukakia - Greek meatballs in rich tomato sauce. If you have ever tasted soutzoukakia in Greece you are almost guaranteed to have. Soutzoukakia, auch Zouzoukaklia, sind griechische Hackfleischwürstchen vorwiegend vom Schwein, aber auch von Kalb, Rind, Lamm oder Geflügel, gelegentlich auch gemischt. Ursprünglich ein Gericht der Griechen Kleinasiens. #soutzoukakia

Instructions to make Savory soutzoukakia:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Remove them from the pan and set them aside.
5. 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.
6. When the sauce is ready, add the meatballs and let them boil in the sauce for 10 minutes.
7. Serve with  rice, pasta or mashed potatoes.

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