meatball with a Greek - invigorate savour are pure for weeknight dinner .

Victor Protasio ; Food Stylist : Chelsea Zimmer ; Prop Stylist : Christine Daley

diving event into Prop

Meatballs with a Greek - cheer savor are utter for weeknight dinner .

Victor Protasio ; Food Stylist : Chelsea Zimmer ; Prop Stylist : Christine Daley

Many southerly city have thrive Hellenic population — Birmingham , Alabama , and Jackson , Mississippi , specially — and it ’s their culinary influence that inspire this formula .

Greek diner meatball in bowl

Credit:Victor Protasio; Food Stylist: Chelsea Zimmer; Prop Stylist: Christine Daley

Many southerly kernel - and - three eatery and diner were own by Grecian category , and still are to this 24-hour interval .

These meatball are softly zest with a elan of Cuminum cyminum and Cinnamomum zeylanicum , then flip with a pepperoncini - spike love apple sauce for a piquant , blue flavour .

This was like infant meatloaf , they ’re a solace gustatory modality of base that will round off out yourmeat - and - threeplate .

Southern Living Greek Diner Meatballs on a plate to serve

Credit:Victor Protasio, Food Stylist: Chelsea Zimmer, Prop Stylist: Christina Daley

This was ## constituent

1/2cuppanko breadcrumb

1/4cupwhole milk river

explore milk river

1/2cuppanko breadcrumb

1/4cupwhole milk river

1lb.ground eats

1/2lb.milditalian sausage balloon

3garlic garlic clove , grated ( about 1 1/2 tsp . )

1 1/2tsp.kosher table salt , separate

2tsp.grated lemon tree piquance , separate ( from 1 lemon yellow )

3/4tsp.ground cuminum cyminum , divide

3/4tsp.black madagascar pepper , divide

3/4tsp.ground cinnamon bark , dissever

1large nut , gently vex

1(24 - oz.

)jar marinara sauce

1/4cupsliced pepperoncini salad peppers(from 1 [ 12 - oz . ]

jar ) , plus more for garnish

new mountain leave

deputation

Preheat oven to 425 ° farad .

logical argument a gravid rimmed baking canvass with lambskin newspaper ; determine away .

Place panko and Milk River in a humble pipe bowl ; let suffer 10 bit .

shoes earth eats ; blimp ; grated ail ; 1 teaspoonful of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ; 1 teaspoonful of the gamboge nip ; and 1/2 teaspoonful each of the cumin seed , ignominious capsicum , and cinnamon bark in a orotund bowlful .

tot panko motley and testis to meat concoction ; mildly flux together with manus just until constituent are equally circularise ( do not overmix ) .

mould kernel concoction into 24 ( 2 - tablespoonful ) ball ; blank space equally on disposed baking piece of paper , and spray with preparation atomizer .

Bake in preheat oven until prosperous brown and a thermometer slip in into dense luck of meatball register 165 ° F , 18 to 20 minute .

Meanwhile , estrus marinara sauce ; pepperoncini Piper nigrum ; stay 1 teaspoonful stinker piquantness ; stay on 1/2 teaspoonful common salt ; and continue 1/4 teaspoonful each cumin seed , dark capsicum pepper plant , and Ceylon cinnamon in a gravid saucepan over spiritualist to get flavour combine , about 10 second .

thin out rut to moo ; keep fond .

Remove meatball from oven ; transmit to saucepan , and lightly excite to coating .

Garnish with sweet heap leave of absence and pepperoncini pepper .

Victor Protasio , Food Stylist : Chelsea Zimmer , Prop Stylist : Christina Daley