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🍽️ Balkan Feast with Skewers and Meat Rolls

1291 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 0.5 cucumber
• 4 tomatoes
• 1 Lollo Bianco lettuce
• 2 red onions
• 200 g feta cheese
• 4 tbsp black pitted olives
• 300 g long-grain rice
• 500 g pork tenderloin
• 1 green bell pepper
• 1 yellow bell pepper
• 2 shallots
• salt
• pepper (from the mill)
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil
• 1 onion
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 tbsp butter
• 500 g mixed minced meat
• 1 egg yolk
• 2 tbsp chopped parsley
• 0.5 tsp cumin
• 0.5 tsp cinnamon
• fat (for the baking sheet)
• 5 tbsp vegetable oil (for frying)
• 2 red bell peppers
• 1 tsp hot paprika powder
• 4 tbsp olive oil

Instructions

1. 1. Wash the cucumber thoroughly.
2. 2. Slice the cucumber into thin rounds.
3. 3. Wash the tomatoes.
4. 4. Remove the hard stem area from the tomatoes.
5. 5. Slice the tomatoes as well.
6. 6. Wash the leaf lettuce.
7. 7. Spin the lettuce dry.
8. 8. Remove any wilted parts from the lettuce.
9. 9. Tear the lettuce leaves into small, bite-sized pieces.
10. 10. Peel the onions.
11. 11. Slice the onions into rings.
12. 12. Take the feta out of the package.
13. 13. Crumble the feta into small pieces with your fingers.
14. 14. Line the small bowls with the lettuce leaves.
15. 15. Arrange the tomato and cucumber slices on top of the lettuce.
16. 16. Sprinkle the feta over the vegetables.
17. 17. Add the olives.
18. 18. Distribute the onion rings over the salad.
19. 19. Preheat the oven to 225 degrees Celsius.
20. 20. Set the heating mode to top and bottom heat.
21. 21. Bring 600 milliliters of water to a boil.
22. 22. Salt the boiling water.
23. 23. Add the rice to the boiling water.
24. 24. Cook the rice for 20 to 25 minutes.
25. 25. Wash the meat for the skewers.
26. 26. Pat the meat dry with a kitchen towel.
27. 27. Cut the meat into small pieces.
28. 28. Wash the bell pepper.
29. 29. Remove the inside of the bell pepper including the seeds.
30. 30. Cut the bell pepper into 2-centimeter pieces.
31. 31. Peel the shallots.
32. 32. Quarter the shallots.
33. 33. Thread the meat and bell pepper pieces alternately onto 4 skewers.
34. 34. Place a shallot quarter on the end of each skewer.
35. 35. Season the skewers with salt.
36. 36. Season the skewers with pepper.
37. 37. Brush the skewers with oil.
38. 38. Peel the onion for the cevapcici.
39. 39. Peel the garlic for the cevapcici.
40. 40. Chop the onion and garlic finely.
41. 41. Heat butter in a pan.
42. 42. Sauté the onion-garlic mixture in the hot butter.
43. 43. Cook the mixture until it is translucent.
44. 44. Remove the pan from the heat.
45. 45. Let the onion-garlic mixture cool down.
46. 46. Take the minced meat.
47. 47. Add the cooled onion-garlic mixture to the meat.
48. 48. Add the egg yolk.
49. 49. Add the parsley.
50. 50. Season the meat mixture with salt.
51. 51. Season the meat mixture with pepper.
52. 52. Add cumin to the meat mixture.
53. 53. Add cinnamon to the meat mixture.
54. 54. Knead the meat mixture thoroughly.
55. 55. Take 60 grams of the meat mixture for one portion.
56. 56. Shape the meat mixture into rolls about 3 centimeters thick.
57. 57. Grease a baking sheet.
58. 58. Place the meat rolls on the baking sheet.
59. 59. Bake the meat rolls in the preheated oven.
60. 60. Bake the meat rolls for about 10 to 15 minutes.
61. 61. Turn the meat rolls once halfway through the cooking time.
62. 62. Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a hot pan.
63. 63. Fry the shish kebab skewers in the pan.
64. 64. Fry the skewers for 10 to 15 minutes.
65. 65. Turn the skewers until they are golden brown on all sides.
66. 66. Wash the bell peppers.
67. 67. Halve the bell peppers.
68. 68. Remove the inside of the bell peppers including the seeds.
69. 69. Cut the bell peppers into small cubes.
70. 70. Heat 3 tablespoons of oil in another pan.
71. 71. Sauté the bell pepper cubes in the hot oil.
72. 72. Add the ground red pepper.
73. 73. Sauté the ground pepper briefly.
74. 74. Add the fully cooked rice to the pan.
75. 75. Mix the rice with the bell pepper.
76. 76. Toss the pan briefly.
77. 77. Season the rice with salt.
78. 78. Warm a platter.
79. 79. Arrange the pepper rice on the pre-warmed platter.
80. 80. Place the shish kebab skewers on the rice platter.
81. 81. Place the cevapcici on the rice platter.
82. 82. Season the salad with salt.
83. 83. Season the salad with pepper.
84. 84. Drizzle the salad with olive oil.
85. 85. Serve the salad alongside the rice platter.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 1291
• Protein: 71 g · Fett/Fat: 79 g · Carbs: 72 g