Meatballs fried

MEATBALLS FRIED

Ingredients

700 g. ground beef

2 large dry onions

6 cloves garlic

20g. olive oil + olive oil for frying

50 g. corn oil

1/2 tsp of ground cumin,

Oregano, a little pepper, a little grated coriander,

Flour for frying

1 medium potato

1 medium tomato, not ripe
1 large egg

15g. breadcrumbs

Istructions

Peel the onions and the garlic.

Chop them in the blender.

Put in a bowl the minced meat.

Add salt and knead the minced meat well.

Add the minced onions and garlic into the bowl.

Knead again the minced meat to mix it well with onions and garlic,

Pour olive oil over the previous mixture and knead again.

Add the herbs and knead again.

Mash in the blender the potato and add it into the minced meat. Knead again.

Mash in the blender the tomato and add it into the minced meat. Knead again.

Sprinkle over the meat the breadcrumbs. Knead again.
Break the egg into the minced meat and knead well to blended materials and flavors.

It is better to brew the minced meat overnight because the next day you can fry the meatballs.

This way you give the meat the time needed to settle the flavors.

Frying

Put in a nonstick pan olive oil until it covered the entire bottom.

Add into the pan the corn oil.

Place the pan over high heat and wait until the oil becomes hot.

Lay in the palm of your left hand flour.

Place over the flour a piece of meat, as a nut.

Buzz minced meat into your palm until it forms a little ball.

Place the little ball in the hot oil.

Continue this way until all the minced meat becomes meatballs.

Arrange the meatballs in the pan next to each other.

Reduce heat to medium.

Let meatballs cooked on one side and then turn on the other.

Do not leave the pan unattended because meatballs burn easily.

When cooked on both sides take them out on a platter, which is covered with kitchen paper towel.

The paper towel absorbs oil and the meatballs are not heavy.

Salad with beans and olives

SALAD WITH BEANS AND OLIVES

Ingredients

250 g. dried butter beans boiled,

250 g. white beans cooked separately from the mullet

350 g. drained pickles

1 large onion   + 3 green fresh onions

2 carrots

2 red peppers

150 grams of black olives with vinegar

1 bunch dill

1 tablespoon mustard powder or hot mustard

80 g. olive oil

1 tsp vinegar

Salt to taste

Instructions

Clean carrots, peppers, onions, scallions and dill and wash them well.

Finely chop the cucumber, peppers, carrots, olives, onions, scallions and dill and put them all into a bowl.

Add the mustard and oil and into the bowl and mix. Add cooked beans and remix.

Try the taste. If the salad needs more salt or vinegar add some.

 

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Potato salad with eggs and tomatoes

POTATO SALAD WITH EGGS AND TOMATOES

(Cretan recipe)

Ingredients

1 kg boiled potatoes

4 eggs cooked tight

1 medium dry onion

4 medium tomatoes for salad

1tsp vinegar

2 cloves garlic

Salt and pepper to taste

80 grams of oil

Instructions

Wash the potatoes under the faucet with plenty of water. Scrub them with a brush and wash again. All dirt should go.

Put the potatoes in a pot. Pour water in the pot until it covers them and reaches 2 cm above them.

Put the pot over high heat and leave the potatoes to boil.

As soon as the start boiling, lower the heat to medium.

Let the potatoes to boil until they are soft and tender.

When the potatoes are boiled cracks appear on their skin.

If you drive a fork in one of them, it nails easily into its flesh.

With a slotted spoon remove the potatoes from the water and put them in a pan.

Let them cool and then clean them by removing their skins.

Put them in a salad bowl and cut them in pieces, as a nut each.

Peel the eggs. Cut each egg into 4 pieces. Put the egg pieces into the potatoes. 

Chop the garlic and put the pieces in the potatoes.

Wash the tomatoes and cut them as in salad.

Put the tomatoes pieces into the potatoes.

Add the onion coarsely cut.

Put oil, salt, a little black pepper and vinegar over the potatoes.

Mix well all the ingredients together.

Try the taste. If you don’t like it, correct seasoning.

Potato salad easy and tasty

POTATO SALAD EASY AND TASTY

Ingredients

1 kg potatoes

1 onion, finely chopped

5 cloves garlic

1/2 bunch parsley

120 grams of olive oil

Salt to taste

1TB vinegar or more

Instructions

Wash the potatoes well, under the faucet with plenty of water. Scrub them with a brush. All the dirt should go.

Put the potatoes in a pot. Pour water over them until it covers them and reaches 2 cm above them.

Put the pot over high heat and leave the potatoes to boil. Once the boiling starts, reduce the heat to medium.

Let the potatoes cook until tender.

When the potatoes are ready, cracks appear on their skin.

With a slotted spoon take the potatoes from the pot and put them in a pan.

Let them aside to cool.

Peel and dice them.

Put the dice potatoes in a bowl.

Pour over the potatoes salt, olive oil, vinegar, chopped garlic, chopped onion and parsley.  Mix all these ingredients well.

The potatoes are soft. When you mix all the ingredients together, they change shape.

Try the taste of the salad. If you don’t like it, correct seasoning.

Put the salad in a deep serving bowl and garnish it with parsley leaves.