Today I am making a delicious dish using many of the key flavors in Greek cooking – mint, parsley, feta, lemon, all delivering big flavors! These meatballs are juicy and the rice full of flavor. Adding that feta cheese makes this dish unforgettable!
Total Time:1 hour Serves: 4people
Ingredients
• ½ cup plain Panko Crumbs
• 2 tbsp milk
• ½ pound ground chicken
• ½ pound ground turkey
• ¼ cup finely chopped red onion
• 1 tsp finely chopped garlic
• 3 tablespoons finely chopped fresh Italian parsley
• 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh mint
• 1 tsp Kosher salt
• 1 egg
• 2 tsp olive oil
• ½ cup uncooked white rice
• 1 cup chicken broth
• 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
• ½ cup halved cherry tomatoes
• ¼ cup crumbled feta cheese
• ½ tsp finely grated lemon zest
Directions
In medium bowl, mix Panko, milk, ground chicken and turkey, onion, garlic, 2 tablespoons of the parsley, the mint, salt and egg. Shape into meatballs. Using your Cast Iron skillet, heat 1 teaspoon of olive oil over medium heat. Cook meatballs 10 to 15 minutes, gently turning occasionally, until well browned on all sides. Transfer to plate.
Using the same pan, heat over medium heat. Add broth and lemon juice, scraping up the yummy bits from the pan and heat to simmering. Add rice; stir 1 minute. Add meatballs, DO NOT STIR. Cover and cook 15 minutes in a 375 degree over OR on low heat on the stovetop for 15 minutes.
And because we can…we add halved cherry tomatoes and lemon zest and feta cheese at the end to make it gorgeous!
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Oh hey everybody my name is Kim and I’m the happiest cook today I am making Greek meatballs in a cast iron skelet with rice and all kinds of yummy stuff I’ve got my meatball mixture almost ready so I’ve got my things all together do you have
Yours all right like I always say let’s get cooking what I’m going to do is I’m going to mix this all up and I’m going to make meatballs my Skillet is heating up and we’re going to cook the meatballs once the meatballs are cooked we’re going to remove them from the pan and
Then we’re going to move on to the next step so these look pretty well mixed now you don’t have to use one of these you can just use use a Tablespoon Okay our meatballs are all in so what we’re going to do is I’m going to sprinkle them lightly with salt and pepper then I’m going to put a lid on them and then we’re going to let them cook for a little bit then we’re going
To turn them and let them cook a little bit and turn them until they’re nice and golden and done so takes about 15 Minutes our meatballs are beautiful what I’m going to do is I am going to move these all out into a bowl once that’s all out I’m going to take my chicken broth my lemon juice and what we’re going to do is we’re going to kind of De glaze the pan and get all
Those yum bits from the bottom okay so we are going to bring our liquids here up to a boil and then I’m going to pour my rice in and then we’re going to carefully lay our meatballs all back on top of the rice we’re going to
Cover it up and put it in the oven and let it continue to bake until till the rice is all done and then we’ll see what we’ve got all right we are boiling so we’re going to stir this in okay all right now the the trick here is
We’re not going to stir it so now that the meatballs are on the rice it doesn’t get stirred so we’re going to turn it off I’m going to cover it up put it in the oven and I will see you back here at the counter one thing if you don’t have a
Cast iron skillet this can be made in a regular dish you just make sure that everything gets covered and cooked because the covering and the cooking in the oven is very important so anyway I’ll see you back here Soon Our meatballs are all done and so is our rice this looks so pretty I hate to just mess up the pretty okay so there is what it looks like let’s taste I am going to very tender Okay so that is really good M very Good another dinner well thank you so much for joining me here in the kitchen today here at the happiest cook and I just want to wish you all a Happy Halloween please stay safe have fun and like I always say let’s get cooking and keep on cooking bye