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Smyrna meatballs

Name: Smyrna meatballs
Total time: 60 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Greece
Ingredients: 600 g mince; 1 onion; 2 slices bread or breadcrumbs; 1 tin tinned tomato / passata; 3 cloves garlic; 1 tsp cumin; 1 eggs; 1 stick cinnamon; to serve rice; 100 ml red wine

⏱ 60 minMedium🇬🇷 Greece4 servings

Ingredients

mince600 g
onion1
bread or breadcrumbs2 slices
tinned tomato / passata1 tin
garlic3 cloves
cumin1 tsp

Optional

eggs1
cinnamon1 stick
riceto serve
red wine100 ml

Assumed: salt, pepper, oil, water.

Method

Mix mince, bread, garlic, cumin and egg.
Shape long meatballs and brown them in a pan.
Make tomato sauce with cinnamon.
Simmer the meatballs in the sauce for 20 min. Serve with rice.

Tip: Cumin is the identity of the dish — don't skip it.

Nutrition per serving (estimate)

600kcal

29 gprotein

45 gfat

20 gcarbs

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