Greek meatballs - Soutzoukakia | Akis Petretzikis

Hello guys and welcome to Akis Kitchen! Today, I will show you how you can make souzoukakia. Souzoukakia are actually Greek meatballs. The meat is going to be so soft that it will melt right in your mouth. It will have an exceptional tomato sauce that will bring out all of the wonderful aromas. It's very easy to make. So, let's begin! I love this recipe, it's very classic, very Greek, and very easy to make. The key ingredient here is the bread. We need a lot of bread because we need the meatballs to become very, very juicy. We need to absorb all this tomato sauce we will make after, so we need to be very, very juicy. Now, for the bread. Take the mixer, add the bread inside, and crumble it. We don't mind if some big bites are still here. We'll carry on the same procedure with the rest of the bread. Perfect! Now, it's time for the rest of the ingredients. I need some extra virgin Greek olive oil, two cloves of garlic. We need garlic to make souzoukakia because actually they are a bit of garlicky and we like garlic. Garlic goes in, salt and pepper goes in, and we need a lot of salt, about a tablespoon of salt, pepper, cumin, chili flakes, and some mint. All these lovely ingredients are actually the taste of the souzoukakia. And put this lovely paste along with the bread, here. And now, it's time to add the rest of the ingredients, the milk, some ouzo. If you don't have ouzo, you can add some vodka, one egg, and the two varieties of minced meat. We have beef and we have pork. Now, we need to be patient and we need to make a good massage to all this mixture. Combine everything together. And this is it! This was the hard part of the recipe, and now the easy part. Let's make them nice, give them a nice shape like a quenelle. And when you do that, just cover them with flour this way. Take a nice plate and arrange them here. I will carry on the same procedure for all my mixture. And my souzoukakia are ready to get deep fried! So, I have plenty of oil here and I will deep fry them. I want to give them a nice color before I prepare my tomato sauce, because this flour outside of the souzoukakia will help actually the sauce to thicken. Now, golden brown color and when they're ready, we'll take them out and we'll carry on with the rest. And my souzoukakia are almost ready. Now, let them drain the excess oil here. Nice! And now, it's time to prepare the tomato sauce. We need a nice pot and as you know, to prepare a tomato sauce, you need onion from the start. So, take an onion, take some extra virgin Greek olive oil and two tablespoons should be enough. Now, add the onion, a little bit of sugar and let the onion caramelize along with the spices. We need cinnamon and bay leaves. Bay leaves, cinnamon, rosemary and give it two to three minutes until it's completely caramelized. And my onion is nice and golden brown and it's time to add tomato paste. We need tomato paste to make sure that the tomato sauce after will be so, so thick. A little bit thick, we need to have body. So, stir a little bit, cook a little bit the tomato paste and then it's time to deglaze our pan first with the tomato. Now, medium heat, stir and add the stock. If you don't have stock, add some water and a cube of stock, chicken. And then, it's time to add the sujukaki inside. This is so tasty and so amazing! And now, the flour will also help the sauce thicken and the sujukaki will be crunchy on the outside and soft and juicy on the inside. Now, cover the pot and let it simmer for about 10 to 15 minutes until the sauce is nice and the meatballs are actually cooked in the middle. And my sujukaki are ready! Man, look at this! So easy and so tasty, trust me, it's worth it really to make sujukaki. And we serve it, of course, with rice. If you want to see how you can prepare the best basmati rice ever, just click the link at the end of this video. And now, it's time for sujukaki. Look at this loveliness, look at this! The sauce is so rich, the sujukaki are so juicy and so tasty. I want a little bit more sauce on the top. Oh my god! And we need herbs, some basil, some mint. I will keep this for decoration, here. And the rest, I will chop them. And this is it! Freshly ground pepper and guess what? For the finishing, extra virgin Greek olive oil! And it smells so delicious, trust me, the cumin smells divine! It is so, so delicious! And it's time to try sujukaki. This is...oh it's so hot, oh my god! I have to do it, it's so tasty, it's so hot but you will eat them hot also. This is the most tasty meatball you ever tried in your Follow exactly my instructions and you will love it! It's so hot but I can't stop eating it, it's because it's so delicious! Please subscribe to my channel, make comments underneath the video and of course share this lovely recipe with your friends and carry on eating your sujukaki! Oh my god!