{"id":828,"date":"2014-10-21T19:12:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T00:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deanasimmons.wordpress.com\/?p=828"},"modified":"2014-10-21T19:12:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T00:12:18","slug":"greek-style-meatball-patties-in-pitas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/?p=828","title":{"rendered":"Greek-Style Meatball Patties in Pitas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>1 lb. ground lamb or beef<br \/>\n1\/4 cup grated onion<br \/>\n1 1\/2 teaspoons minced garlic<br \/>\n1 1\/2 teaspoons dried oregano, preferably Greek<br \/>\n1 teaspoons salt<br \/>\n1\/2 teaspoon pepper<br \/>\n4 (6-inch) pita pocket breads, halved<br \/>\n1 tablespoon olive oil<br \/>\n2 cups baby spinach<br \/>\n2 plum tomatoes, sliced<br \/>\n1\/2 cup Greek-style vegetable dip<\/p>\n<p>1. Heat oven to 350\u00baF. Gently combine lamb, onion, garlic, oregano, salt and pepper in medium bowl until blended. Using heaping 1 tablespoon per patty, shape into 16 (1-inch) balls; flatten into oval patties 1\/2 inch thick.<\/p>\n<p>2. Wrap pita breads in foil; bake 10 minutes or until warm.<\/p>\n<p>3. Meanwhile, heat oil in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until hot. Cook patties 5 minutes or until browned, turning once. Cover; reduce heat to low. Cook an additional 4 to 5 minutes or until thoroughly cooked and no longer pink in center. Drain on paper towels.<\/p>\n<p>4. Serve patties in pita halves topped with spinach, tomatoes and dip.<\/p>\n<p>4 sandwiches<\/p>\n<p>PER SANDWICH: 450 calories, 23.5 g total fat (8 g saturated fat), 24.5 g protein, 35 g carbohydrate, 75 mg cholesterol, 1000 mg sodium, 3 g fiber<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 lb. ground lamb or beef 1\/4 cup grated onion 1 1\/2 teaspoons minced garlic 1 1\/2 teaspoons dried oregano, preferably Greek 1 teaspoons salt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44],"tags":[144,175,611,651,653,794,834,836,838,920,921,927,930,1010,1024,1093,1153,1199,1201,1214,1217,1272,1296,1300,1464,1467,1469,1699,1741],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sandwiches","tag-baby-spinanch","tag-beef","tag-dinner-2","tag-easy-dinner","tag-easy-lunch","tag-garlic","tag-greek","tag-greek-oregano","tag-greek-style-vegetable-dip","tag-home-cooking","tag-homemade","tag-homemade-dinner","tag-homemade-lunch","tag-kids-lunch","tag-lamb","tag-lunch","tag-minced-garlic","tag-olive-oil","tag-onion","tag-oregano","tag-organo","tag-pepper","tag-pita","tag-pita-pocket","tag-salt","tag-sandwich","tag-sandwiches-2","tag-tomatoes","tag-vegetable-dip","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7yoUc-dm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southernladycooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}