Soutzoukakia with chickpeas
Soutzoukakia with chickpeas

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These baked meatballs are infused with the aromas of cumin and soaked in a tasty and rich. Greek vegetarian meatballs - Soutzoukakia by Greek chef Akis Petretzikis. Place the chickpeas in a bowl with a generous amount of water and add salt..

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook soutzoukakia with chickpeas using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Soutzoukakia with chickpeas:
  1. Make ready 1 1/2 cup chickpeas without their skins (either soaked overnight or leftover chickpea soup)
  2. Prepare 1 large onion, finely chopped
  3. Prepare 2 tbsp cumin
  4. Get 1 medium-sized egg
  5. Prepare 3 tbsp flour
  6. Prepare 2 tbsp oil
  7. Prepare 3/4 cups finely chopped parsley
  8. Prepare salt, pepper
  9. Prepare For the sauce
  10. Prepare 2-4 tbsp oil
  11. Prepare 1 onion finely chopped
  12. Make ready 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
  13. Take 3 cups tomato, finely chopped
  14. Prepare 1/2 cup white wine
  15. Make ready 1/2 cup water
  16. Get 1 tsp cumin
  17. Prepare 1 tsp oregano
  18. Make ready 1 tsp sugar
  19. Take salt, pepper

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 sauce. This dish was brought to Greece by refugees from Asia Minor. Soutzoukakia (Greek Meatballs) with Potatoes, Bacon and Peas. Soutzoukakia Smyrneika, are spicy sausage-shaped meatballs, which are lightly fried and then cooked in a delicious tomato sauce and come from the once Greek part of Asia Minor, Smyrna.

Steps to make Soutzoukakia with chickpeas:
  1. Strain the chickpeas, blend the onions in a food processor, add the chickpeas and continue blending. Add the cumin, the salt and the pepper. Mix and then add the egg, the flour, the oil and finely the parsley.
  2. Form small soutzoukakia (a kind of oblong shape, not round), coat in flour and place in the freezer for 30' to allow them to get firm.
  3. Sauté the onion in the oil, add the garlic, the tomatoes, the wine and 1 cup water, salt, pepper, sugar, oregano, cumin and allow the sauce to simmer.
  4. Sauté the soutzoukakia in 1 tbsp oil (I just grilled them for a while) and then add them to the sauce and simmer for 45' adding a little water if necessary.
  5. Good luck.

Soutzoukakia is a special Greek dish with minced meat and red sauce accompanied with French fries or rice. There are two ways of pre-baking soutzoukakia. Want to know what to do with chickpeas? Chickpeas are cooked with onion, garlic, chilli, preserved lemon and paprika here to create a saucy, flavour-packed. Soutzoukakia are basically meat balls shaped like a small sausage. (Mine are probably a little longer than the usual plump soutzoukakia you find in many Greek taverns).

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