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The first thing to do is prepare the lamb meatballs.
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Preheat the oven to 375 F and grab a 9 x 13 baking dish.
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In a large mixing bowl, combine the breadcrumbs, eggs, pine nuts, mint, salt, saffron, cinnamon, nutmeg, coriander, cumin, smoked paprika, and cayenne.
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Stir it all together well.
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Add the lamb last and incorporate it into the rest of the mixture until just combined.
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Adding the lamb in last after everything else is stirred helps to keep from overworking the meat!
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It leaves the meatballs nice and tender.
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Form the mixture into your preferred size meatballs and roll them in the additional breadcrumbs to coat them, then transfer them to the baking dish.
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Bake the lamb meatballs in the oven for 40 minutes, until thoroughly cooked through.
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With the size that I made mine, I yielded 13 meatballs.
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That was perfect since I always like to have enough to make one more than I need so that I can taste test!
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When the meatballs are done, take them out of the oven and transfer them to a plate lined with paper towel.
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Lamb can have a decent amount of fat that will render out when it cooks.
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The paper towel will absorb any grease!
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While the meatballs cook, make the yogurt sauce and gather the ingredients to assemble the lamb meatball pitas.
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For the yogurt sauce, all you need to do is combine the yogurt, cucumber, olive oil and salt in a bowl.
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Stir it together thoroughly and you have yourself an amazing and easy yogurt sauce!
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Now its time to assemble the lamb pitas (or pit-zas).
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Toast the 4 pita breads until slightly crisp (in the toaster or using your preferred method) and get them onto plates.
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Spread about 3 tablespoons of hummus onto each pita and then drizzle two teaspoons of the yogurt sauce over the hummus.
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Take the hot meatballs and cut each one into 8 small pieces, then distribute 3 meatballs worth of the pieces evenly onto each pita over the hummus and sauce.
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Top with a generous sprinkle of the chopped spinach and onion slices.
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Youre ready to serve!
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I quartered the pit-za just before eating to make it like pizza slices.
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These lamb pitas are little delights of Middle Eastern flavor in an Italian package.
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Perfection!
