Village Salad with Grilled Pita Bread AND Greek Meatballs in Wine Sauce

(from castro15’s recipe box)

Categories: Meals

Ingredients

  • Salad:
  • 3 vine-ripe tomatoes, chunked
  • 1 medium red onion, sliced thin
  • 1/2 seedless cucumber, chunked
  • 1 small red pepper, chunked
  • 1 small green pepper, chunked
  • 1/2 cup chopped parsley
  • 1/2 lb feta, sliced
  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • 3 tbsp red wine vinegar
  • 1 tsp dried oregano
  • salt and pepper
  • Pita breads
  • Meatballs:
  • 3/4 lb ground lamb
  • 3/4 lb ground beef
  • 1 small yellow onion, minced
  • chopped parsley
  • salt and pepper
  • 1 tbsp butter
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 cup dry white wine
  • 1/2 lemon

Directions

  1. Salad:

  2. Combine vegetables and parsley in a large bowl. Rest feta on top of salad. Combine oil, vinegar and oregano in a mason jar and shake to combine. Pour over salad and cheese. Season with salt and pepper. Serve with grilled pita bread.

  3. Meatballs:

  4. In a large bowl, combine meats, onion, parsley, salt and pepper. Melt butter into oil in pan and roll meat mixture into meatballs. Saute in pan 10-12 minutes, browning on all sides.

  5. Deglaze pan with wine and allow it to reduce by half, 1-2 minutes. Remove pan from heat, squeeze lemon juice over meatballs in skillet and serve.

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