Soutzoukakia with chickpeas
Soutzoukakia with chickpeas

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Strain the chickpeas, blend the onions in a food processor, add the chickpeas and continue blending. Add the cumin, the salt and the pepper. Mix and then add the egg, the flour, the oil and finely the parsley. Place the chickpeas in a bowl with a generous amount of water and add salt.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have soutzoukakia with chickpeas using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Soutzoukakia with chickpeas:
  1. Get 1 1/2 cup chickpeas without their skins (either soaked overnight or leftover chickpea soup)
  2. Prepare 1 large onion, finely chopped
  3. Make ready 2 tbsp cumin
  4. Get 1 medium-sized egg
  5. Prepare 3 tbsp flour
  6. Prepare 2 tbsp oil
  7. Take 3/4 cups finely chopped parsley
  8. Prepare salt, pepper
  9. Get For the sauce
  10. Take 2-4 tbsp oil
  11. Take 1 onion finely chopped
  12. Take 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
  13. Get 3 cups tomato, finely chopped
  14. Make ready 1/2 cup white wine
  15. Take 1/2 cup water
  16. Take 1 tsp cumin
  17. Get 1 tsp oregano
  18. Take 1 tsp sugar
  19. Prepare salt, pepper

To prepare the tomato sauce for the soutzoukakia, sauté the onion in olive oil. Add the wine, the tomato juice, sugar, cumin, tomato paste, the bay leaf and season with salt and freshly ground pepper. Bring to a boil and simmer, until the sauce starts to thicken. Soutzoukakia are Greek meatballs in tomato sauce.

Instructions to make Soutzoukakia with chickpeas:
  1. Strain the chickpeas, blend the onions in a food processor, add the chickpeas and continue blending. Add the cumin, the salt and the pepper. Mix and then add the egg, the flour, the oil and finely the parsley.
  2. Form small soutzoukakia (a kind of oblong shape, not round), coat in flour and place in the freezer for 30' to allow them to get firm.
  3. Sauté the onion in the oil, add the garlic, the tomatoes, the wine and 1 cup water, salt, pepper, sugar, oregano, cumin and allow the sauce to simmer.
  4. Sauté the soutzoukakia in 1 tbsp oil (I just grilled them for a while) and then add them to the sauce and simmer for 45' adding a little water if necessary.
  5. Good luck.

Bring to a boil and simmer, until the sauce starts to thicken. Soutzoukakia are Greek meatballs in tomato sauce. I tried this variation when I had leftover chickpea soup and it was delicious. I tried this variation when I had leftover chickpea soup and it was delicious. This recipe for smirneika soutzoukakia (Greek meatballs in tomato sauce from Smirna/Izmir) comes from my grandmother who is from Smyrna/Izmir.

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