Turkish Kofte is often served as a main dish, with rice for example or it can be served on a meze platter, usually with a yogurt sauce but you can serve it the way you want it!
🇹🇷 Turkish Meatballs or Turkish Köfte
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 20
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 small grated onion
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/2 tbsp bread crumbs
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 tsp Salt
- ½ tsp black pepper
- 1/4 tsp Cumin
- ½ cup finely chopped parsley
- ½ tbsp Paprika
- 1 cup or less of light olive oil or vegetable oil for frying
Instructions
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 In a large bowl, put the ground meat (beef or a mixture of beef and lamb), onion, garlic, parsley, paprika, bread crumbs, salt, pepper, cumin, and water.
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Mix all the ingredients with a spoon or your hand.
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Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
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Take a small amount of the meat mixture and form a ball that you slightly flatten (you can make oval shapes if you like).
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Continue shaping the meat mixture into meatballs, that you will slightly flatten, so that the center will be cooked completely
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Put oil in a non stick pan (just enough to coat the bottom of the pan) over medium heat. Once the oil is hot, reduce the heat to medium low.
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Place the Turkish meatballs in the pan, single layered and fry them in both sides.
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Drain on a paper towel.
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Serve.
Recipe Notes
- Cook one meatball on the pan before shaping all the meat mixture and check the seasoning. Adjust the seasoning if needed!
- You can add 1 egg to the meat mixture and reduce the amount of water.