Ingredients
500 g. minced beef meat
Two gloves of crushed garlic
2 tbs olive oil
1 tsp cumin
2 slices stale bread
1 cup. Mavrodafni or any good red wine
salt
freshly ground pepper
1 cup of feta cheese crumbled
1 cup of thickly grated Kassery or any yellow cheese of your choice
1/2 bunch of fresh parsley
For serving
yoghurt
parsley
For the sauce
1 kg grated tomatoes
2 tbs olive oil
1 tbsp paste
1 pinch of sugar
2-3 grains of allspice
1/4 tsp of Cinnamon or half a stick
1 tsp of cumin powder
1 tsp of sweet paprika powder
salt
Freshly grated black pepper
For the almond pilaf
2 tbs butter
3 tbsp of crushed almonds with out the skin
2 cup of Jasmine rice
4 cups. hot water or broth
salt
pepper
Soak the bread in the wine. The squeeze and place in bowl. Add all the ingredients of minced meat and knead together until fluffy minced.
Mix together the cheeses and chopped parsley add some black pepper and mix well until it's all combined in to a firm mixture.
Simultaneously boil together all the ingredients of the sauce for 15 minutes until the sauce thickens. Dip hands in wine and mold into small meatballs and flatten it down and with a small spoon add a small amount of the cheese mixture in the middle of the meatball and shape in to oblong meatballs and placer hem in a well greased oven tray and sprinkle some olive oil over them and bake for 20min minutes to brown. When meatballs have browned take out of the oven and pore the red sauce on top of meatballs and cover with airfoil and place in moderate oven for a further 20min
For the Almond rice
Brown the butter with almonds in the pan. Preheat the oven to 200ÂșC in the air, on the middle rack and heat the pan. Pour in the hot pan butter and almonds, add the warm water or broth and rice and cook for 25 minutes, stirring 1-2 times.