Giouvarlakia (rice meatballs)
Giouvarlakia (rice meatballs)

Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, giouvarlakia (rice meatballs). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Form the meatballs (youvarlakia) and set them aside. She mentions that there are two main versions of Giouvarlakia- this one where the meatballs are served in a soup and a second. Add rice, parsley, celery, mint, oregano, olive oil, salt, and pepper, and mix well.

Giouvarlakia (rice meatballs) is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Giouvarlakia (rice meatballs) is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook giouvarlakia (rice meatballs) using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Giouvarlakia (rice meatballs):
  1. Prepare 500 g ground beef
  2. Prepare 6 tbsp short-grain white rice
  3. Take 1 medium onion, grated
  4. Get 1 handful chopped parsley
  5. Take 2 eggs
  6. Prepare salt
  7. Take pepper
  8. Make ready 1/2 tsp ground cumin
  9. Make ready 2 medium lemons
  10. Take 1/2 cup olive oil

Giouvarlakia, pronounced yiou-vahr-LAH-khia, is a Greek soup with meatballs using ground veal (or ground pork or chicken), rice, herbs and spices. After cooking the meatballs we add the avgolemono, which is an egg and lemon sauce, which thickens and becomes a delicious soup. Roll the meatballs out into golf ball sized balls and place in a large dish. Remove the meatballs from the pot and place in a clean dish.

Steps to make Giouvarlakia (rice meatballs):
  1. In a bowl, place the mince, 2-3 pinches of salt, pepper, the cumin, the rice, the grated onion, the chopped parsley and one of the eggs.
  2. Mix well, and let rest for half an hour in the fridge.
  3. In a large pot, bring water to the boil, with salt and the oil.
  4. Roll the mince mixture into medium sized balls, and place them into the boiling water.  Let simmer over medium heat for 25 minutes.
  5. Lower the heat.  In a bowl beat the second egg and add the juice of the lemons, while continuing to beat.  Ladle a little of the hot soup into the egg mixture, gently and while continuing to beat it.
  6. Having warmed the egg mixture, pour it into the soup pot, stirring gently, and raise the heat to medium.  Let cook for 5 minutes, and serve.

Add one more cup of water to the stock in the. There are two parts to making this dish. First, you prepare the meatballs with a filling of ground meat of your choice (ground beef, turkey, or a meatloaf mix) along with rice, grated onion, dill, and salt and pepper. Catelli Brothers makes a super delicious meatloaf mix that I buy at my local Safeway. Once the rice is cooked, prepare the avgolemono and incorporate with the soup.

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