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Dinner · 25 min · 4 plates

Keftedes

Greek meatballs with mint. Soaked bread in the meat so they stay tender. Cumin is quiet. Yogurt at the table, lemon too.

The sheet · 4 plates · 25 min

easy

Why tonight. Greek meatballs with mint. Soaked bread in the meat so they stay tender. Cumin is quiet. Yogurt at the table, lemon too.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • beef
  • mint
  • onion
  • cumin
  • bread

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: yogurt.

Method

  1. Bread soaked in a little liquid and squeezed, mixed in — that is what keeps them tender rather than dense.
  2. Grate the onion and squeeze the juice out, then use the juice and discard the pulp.
  3. Mint as well as the cumin. It is what makes them Greek rather than generic meatballs.
  4. Rest the mix an hour, then fry hard and do not crowd the pan.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

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Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

beef
Fat and connective tissue decide the method.
mint
Loud, cooling, and easily wrecked.
onion
The base under most of this library.
cumin
Earthy and slightly bitter, and it needs heat to open.
bread
Structure, thickener, and the reason a lot of these dishes stretch.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

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