Photo: Spanikopita Chicken Meatballs with Spicy Cucumber and Yogurt Sauce Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, plus some for liberal drizzling
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 4 cloves garlic, chopped, divided
- 2 boxes frozen chopped spinach, defrosted.
- 3/4 cup crumbled feta cheese
- 1 pound ground chicken
- 1 tablespoons grill seasoning (recommended: McCormick Montreal Seasoning)
- 1 1/2 cups Greek style plain yogurt
- 1/3 seedless cucumber, peeled and chopped
- 3 tablespoons fresh dill
- 1/2 lemon, juiced
- 1 1/2 teaspoons, 1/2 a palm full, cumin
- 1 1/2 teaspoons, 1/2 a palm full, coriander
- Salt
Directions
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
In a bowl combine onion and 3 cloves of garlic. Squeeze the water out of the spinach until completely dry. Separate the spinach as you add it to garlic and onion. Add feta, chicken and grill seasoning to the bowl and a liberal drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil. Mix the meat with veggies and feta and form 18 (1 1/2-inch) meatballs. Place the meatballs on a nonstick cookie sheet and bake 10 to 12 minutes until they are golden and juices run clear.
Place yogurt, garlic, cucumber, dill, lemon juice, cumin, coriander and a little salt in food processor and process until smooth. Adjust seasonings and transfer to a serving bowl. Serve meatballs alongside sauce with toothpicks.
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By maria.cusumano
on May 28, 2013
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So my boyfriend's mom had like 4lbs of ground chicken in the freezer and I decided to look up some recipes so we could find something to make with it other than boring chicken burgers. I made another meatball recipe one day. Then the next I made these, except my boyfriend didn't want meatballs two days in a row, so we just shaped these into burgers and threw them on the grill.
They were delicious. We already had tzatziki from his mom's trip to Titan and we used fresh spinach because that's what he had in the house. Making them again tomorrow with the last of the chop meat, as meatballs =
By scottskitchen
on April 18, 2013
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left the cumin and coriander out, added fresh cilantro salt n pepper to the tzaziki sauce.... dynamite meal
By Foodman100
on February 03, 2013
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Great, simple, and tasty.
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