Giouvarlakia (rice meatballs)
Giouvarlakia (rice meatballs)

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Traditional mama's recipe, comfort food, delicious soup, medicine for the soul! One of the most popular greek dishes. This Greek meatball soup (youvarlakia or giouvarlakia soup) is a classic delicacy made basically with meatballs (youvarlakia) and rice. It's sounds really simple, but it's simplicity of preparation and.

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

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

The meatballs are still good on. 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. It might look a little bit complicated but believe me it's not difficult to make.

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.

After cooking the meatballs we add the avgolemono. It might look a little bit complicated but believe me it's not difficult to make. It's perfect for the cold days and it will instantly make you feel better if you are sick. This satisfying Greek soup, with beef meatballs and rice, is comfort easy comfort food. Greek meatballs in vine leaves with egg and lemon sauce - Giouvarlakia.

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