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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Greek >> Greek

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat oven to 375°F. | 2. Place ground meats in colander in sink and allow blood to drain away, 30-45 minutes. | 3. Thoroughly mix together meats, with seasonings. | 4. On a large piece of heavy duty aluminum foil. plop down the meat, and shape it into a meat roll with your hands. | 5. Roll up the meat roll in the foil, and twist up the ends like a piece of hard candy wrapper. With an ice pick or small knife jab holes all over the roll, on all sides. | 6. Place wrapped meat roll on a drain rack in an oven pan and bake for about 75-80 minutes or until your internal meat is about 175F,. | 7. Allow meat to cool and then refrigerate roll overnight. | 8. When you want to serve, slice off pieces of meat and heat them in a skillet, browning them if you like. | 9. Serve on skillet warmed, large, whole wheat pita (I get the thinner oversized type from a Mediterranean market), with tzatziki sauce, sliced onion, diced tomato, and crumbled feta cheese. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
beef	1		ground lean	530.4012	0.0	104.5842	12.1947
lamb	1	lb	ground	1211.112	0.0	76.5677	97.9322
thyme	2	teaspoons		1.6159999999999999	0.3912	0.08900000000000001	0.0269
sumac	2	teaspoons		-	-	-	-
cumin	2	teaspoons	ground	15.75	1.8581	0.748	0.9353
onion powder	2	teaspoons		16.368	3.7978	0.4997	0.0499
coriander	2	teaspoons	ground	10.728	1.9796	0.4453	0.6397
garlic	1/2	teaspoon	granulated	2.086	0.4628	0.08900000000000001	0.006999999999999999
turmeric	1	teaspoon		9.36	2.0142	0.2904	0.0975
salt	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
black pepper	1	teaspoon		5.773	1.4708	0.239	0.075
heavy duty aluminum foil				-	-	-	-
extra wheat pita bread	5 -6			-	-	-	-
feta cheese	3 -4	ounces	crumbled	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
tomato	1 -2		diced	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
red onion	1/2		sliced	14.0	3.2689999999999997	0.385	0.035
tzatziki	3/4	cup		-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.