Greek Quinoa Meatballs

 So...meatballs. The dish which can be made a million ways. And this is one of the recipes with different ingredients in it. Its super delicious. This is the second time I made this and has become one of my fav recipes.

Greek Quinoa Meatballs (Meatballs with greek seasoning and quinoa)

Greek Quinoa meatballs

Ingredients:

1. 1 lb lean ground meat
2. 1/2 cup quinoa cooked to package directions and cooled
3. 1/2 cup grated onion (squeezed out of as much water as possible)
4. 1/2 cup whole fat plain yogurt
5. 1 cup frozen spinach thawed and squeezed out of water
6. 1 tablespoon each of dried basil, oregano, garlic powder
7. 1 teaspoon salt, red pepper flakes
8. 1/2 teaspoon each of black pepper

Mix all the ingredients together with a light hand. Make 20-24 meatballs. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake for 30 minutes. Flip the meat balls midway.

Enjoy as an appetizer or serve with your favorite bread as a meatball sandwich or with spegetti

Simple meatballs

Brown Sambar Rice

 Sambar brown rice or Brown sambar rice!!! thats a very big question....what to call this recipe. This is Sambar rice but made with Brown rice. Its super duper delicious.

Brown Sambar Rice (Brown cooked with spices)

Sambar brown rice

Ingredients:

1. 1 cup brown rice
2. 1/2 cup masoor dal or lentils
3. Juice from a small golf ball sized tamarind soaked in 1 cup hot water
4. 1 tablespoon ghee
5. 1 medium small potato cubed into 1 cm cubes
6. 1 medium carrot cubed into 1 cm cubes
7. 1/4 cup chopped green beans
8. 1 teaspoon each of salt mustard seeds, urad dal, cumin, 2 dried red chillies, few curry leaves, grated ginger

Ingredients for Sambar Powder:

1. 1 tablespoons each of chana dal, toor dal, moong dal
2. 1 teaspoon cumin

Soak the rice and lentils in water for 30 min to 2 hrs. Cook the rice and dal with 2 cups of water + tamarind juice + salt

Toast the ingredients for sambar powder and grind them into powder.

In a pan heat the gheet and add the mustard seeds. Cover and let splutter. Add all the other ingredients in # 9 (except salt) fry for a minute. Add the vegetables and fry for 5-7 minutes. Turn the heat to high and add the cooked rice and dal and Sprinkle the sambar powder and mix to combine. Simmer covered for 2 minutes. Enjoy with appadam, pickle and Scrambled egg