Soup with rice and meatballs (Greek Giouvarlakia)

SOUP WITH RICE AND MEATBALLS (Greek Giouvarlakia)

Ingredients

1/2 kilo of ground beef

3 large onions

1 bunch parsley

1/2 cup rice

1/3 cup olive oil

Salt, pepper,

1/2 square cm hot red pepper

  

Egg and lemon sauce

Ingredients

2 eggs,

Juice of 2 medium lemons

Instructions

Peel the onions.

Chop one of them in the blender.

Put salt on the minced meat and knead it well to catch it.

Add a little ground pepper and two tablespoons of oil and knead. 

Add the chopped onion into the ground meat and knead again.

Clean and wash the parsley. Cut it in very small pieces and add it into the minced meat and knead.

Wash rice and strain it with a strainer.

Put the rice in the minced meat and knead to mix all the ingredients well.

Put in one pot water 3-3.5 liters and place it over high heat.

Once the water starts to boil, pour into it two onions finely cut.

Wait 2-3 minutes and then add salt and a little hot red pepper.

Put on your palm a piece of mixed ground beef as a nut.

With your hands make a small ball from it.

Place the little ball in the boiling water.

Repeat this process until you finish all the mixture of the ground beef.

Pour into the pot the remaining olive oil.

Reduce heat and let the giouvarlakia to boil over medium heat.

One and a half hour of cooking is enough to soften the rice and the ground beef.

Then is time to make the egg and lemon sauce.

Egg and lemon sauce

In a deep bowl knock two eggs well with the whisk.

While you continue mixing the eggs add the lemon juice little by little into it.

With a soup ladle take some boiling broth from the pot and pour it slowly into the eggs.

Stir constantly with the whisk.

Repeat this step three more times.

Remove the pot from the heat.

Pour slowly the egg and lemon sauce into the pot and mix with a ladle.

Let the food for a while to cool and then serve.

Giouvarlakia with feta

In this recipe you can replace the egg and lemon sauce with feta.

Put in each soup dish 50 grams feta and smash it with a fork.

Served with a soup ladle the giouvarlakia hot in the dish.

Feta cheese melts and mixes with the sauce of the food.

If anyone wants more or less salt in his food, increase or decrease the amount of feta acordingly.