Description
Delicious soutzoukakia in tomato sauce with ground beef meat. To make our soutzoukaki healthier, we do not fry them but bake them in the oven.
Ingredients
Scale
- 850 gr. ground beef
- 2 cloves garlic mashed
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp cumin
- 80 gr. wholemeal bread crumbs
- 1/2 cup sweet red wine
- Salt
- Freshly ground pepper
For the tomato sauce
- 1.5 kg of grated tomatoes
- 4 tbsp. olive oil
- 2 tbsp. tomato paste
- 1 tsp sugar
- 5 grains of allspice
- Salt
- Freshly ground pepper
Instructions
- For the soutzoukakia in tomato sauce, first soak the wholemeal bread in wine for 10′. Squeeze it and put it in a large bowl.
- In the large bowl put the ingredients to create soutzoukakia. Knead the dough well for the soutzoukakia.
- At the same time, in a saucepan over medium heat, boil the sauce ingredients for 15΄ until the sauce sets.
- To shape the soutzoukakia, wet our hands with the wine and shape about 30 small soutzoukakia. Preheat the oven to 200 ° C.
- Arrange them in a pan that we have oiled just enough to fit them and bake at 200 ° C for 10 minutes until golden brown.
- Pour the thick sauce over them and continue baking in the oven for another 25 minutes. Serve with rice.
Notes
Cook’s tip
For a richer taste, we choose minced meat, half pork, half beef, but the nutritional value will be different.
Doctor’s tip
Cooked tomatoes provide lycopene that protects against prostate cancer.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 5 soutzoukakia
- Calories: 433
- Sugar: 7
- Fat: 22
- Carbohydrates: 15.8
- Fiber: 4
- Protein: 38.6