Meatballs in kefir sauce

AUTHOR
Pat Ware
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 5
COOK TIME
40 mins
TOTAL TIME
40 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 1 Bread rolls from the previous day
  • 1 Onion
  • 500 g mixed minced meat
  • 1 Egg
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 7-10 Tbsp Pepper
  • 1 TEASPOON dried oregano
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Pine nuts
  • 4 TABLESPOONS Olive oil
  • 200 g Cucumber
  • 100 g Spring onions
  • 100 g Sheep's cheese
  • 2 Garlic cloves
  • 500 g Kefir
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Fresh cream
  • 7-10 Tbsp Lemon juice
  • 7-10 Tbsp Parsley and lemon wedges

Directions

  1. 1

    Soak rolls in cold water. Peel and finely chop the onion. Knead minced, squeezed out roll, diced onion and egg. Season the minced mass with salt, pepper and oregano. Form small balls from the mixture.

  2. 2

    Roast pine nuts in a pan without fat and take them out. Heat the oil in the pan and fry the meatballs for about 10 minutes. Meanwhile wash the cucumber, dab dry and cut into cubes. Clean and wash spring onions and cut them into rings. Crumble the feta cheese roughly. Peel garlic, press it through a garlic press and mix it with the kefir. Remove meatballs from the pan. Fry the cucumbers and spring onions in the frying fat. Add the kefir, crème fraîche and feta cheese and heat up as well. Do not let it boil!

  3. 3

    Peel garlic, press it through a garlic press and mix it with the kefir. Remove meatballs from the pan. Fry the cucumbers and spring onions in the frying fat. Add the kefir, crème fraîche and feta cheese and heat up as well. Do not let it boil! Season with lemon juice, salt and pepper. Add meatballs again

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
710 kcal
CARBS
16 g
FATS
54 g
PROTEINS
38 g

Categories & Tags

Main DishesMeatinexpensive