Greek Meatballs with Tomato Sauce (Soutzoukakia )

• portionen: 8 servings
• aktive zeit: 15 minutes
• gesamtzeit: 1 hour

Zutaten

1 cup stale bread, broken up

1/2 cup red wine

2 pounds ground beef

1 large onion, chopped

2 cloves garlic, minced

2 tbsp sweet cumin

1 cup extra virgin olive oil

salt and pepper, to taste

15 ounces can tomato sauce, pumaro if possible

salt and pepper, to taste

1 tsp sugar

Anweisungen

In a small bowl soak the bread in the red wine.

In a mixing bowl add the ground beef, onion, garlic, cumin, bread, oil, salt, pepper, and combine well. Let this mixture sit 1 hour in the fridge.

Form the meatballs and fry them in a little olive oil, then put them in a pyrex baking dish one next to the other.

Bring the tomato sauce to a boil and add to the meatballs, along with the oil you fried the meatballs in.

Cover with aluminum foil and bake at 350 for 35 minutes.

Nährwertangaben

• Kalorien: 648 kcal
• Gesamtfett: 51 g
• Gesättigtes Fett: 13 g
• Ungesättigtes Fett: 34 g
• Transfett: 1 g
• Cholesterin: 81 mg
• Natrium: 513 mg
• Gesamtkohlenhydrate: 21 g
• Ballaststoffe: 3 g
• Zucker insgesamt: 5 g
• Eiweiß: 24 g