Meatball Soup with an Egg-Lemon Sauce (Giouvarelakia me Augolemono). This Greek meatball soup (youvarlakia or giouvarlakia soup) is a classic delicacy made basically with meatballs (youvarlakia) and rice. The secret ingredient for this extra creamy Greek recipe for youvarlakia soup is the Avgolemono - an egg lemon sauce. Greek lamb and rice meatballs in a creamy lemon sauce.
Giouvarlakia is a Greek soup with meatballs using ground veal, pork or chicken, rice, herbs and spices cooked and thickened with a lemony avgolemono sauce.
After cooking the meatballs we add the avgolemono, which is an egg and lemon sauce.
Here is a traditional greek recipe of Meatball Soup in Egg lemon sauce recipe.
You can have Meatball Soup with an Egg-Lemon Sauce (Giouvarelakia me Augolemono) using 13 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Meatball Soup with an Egg-Lemon Sauce (Giouvarelakia me Augolemono)
- It's 500 grams of ground beef.
- Prepare 1 of medium Egg.
- It's 1 of Onion diced.
- It's 1 of Carrot chopped.
- It's 1/4 cup of Olive Oil.
- It's 1/4 cup of White Grain Rice.
- It's 1 tablespoon of Dill diced.
- Prepare 1 of Lemon Juice.
- It's 2 of Potatoes chopped in cubes.
- You need 1 litre of Water.
- It's 1/2 cup of All Purpose Flour (optional).
- Prepare 1 teaspoon of Salt.
- You need 1 teaspoon of Pepper.
The greek name is Giouvarlakia or Youvarlakia! Avgolemono [the sauce] is used to flavor meat, fish, and vegetables, but there's also s oup avgolemono, either with chicken or a soup with meatballs scented with herbs and cooked in vegetable or meat broth, which is then thickened and flavored with avgolemono. This simple and traditional Greek soup featuring meatballs in a creamy egg lemon sauce is deliciously tasty all year round. With a few ingredients and a few easy steps, you can create a beautiful dish for the entire family.
Meatball Soup with an Egg-Lemon Sauce (Giouvarelakia me Augolemono) step by step
- 1) In a large bowl combine all the ingredients by hand, except for the egg and the lemon. juice. 2) Take a small piece of the meat mixture and make a small meatball. 3) Dip each meatball into flour and shake off the excess flour before putting into the water. 4) In a large sauce pot add water, carrot, potatoes and the meatballs, cook for 1 hour on low heat..
- 5) Whisk egg white, slowly add in the lemon juice along with about 50 ml of the hot soup. Continue to whisk add in the egg yolk. Once this sauce has slightly thickened add into the meatball soup and serve hot. It is a pretty simple soup once you get the whisking and boiling out of the way. 😉 Kali Orexi!!!.
Avgolemono is a sauce made by mixing eggs and lemon juice and tempering the mixture with a hot stock or broth. It acts as a thickening agent Giouvarlakia is a Greek meatball soup that is finished off with avgolemono — a tangy lemon and egg sauce. Stews and soups, especially in an avgolemono sauce, are very popular in Greece. One of my favorite dishes, Youvarlakia Greek Meatball Soup. I am always creative with the meatball piece of the dish.