Turkish Kofta Kebab 'Köfte'

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This is a welcome to Turkish food and travel is a popular meatball type of dish in Turkey and the Middle East .

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I will make a the baby make it at home easily using a food processor in this episode .

I'm also going to show you how you can complete this delicious meat dish to serve as a authentic menu .

So let's get started .

I have 500 g , ground beef .

It's mixed of lamb and beef .

30% to 70% .

2 medium size onions , big handful of parsley , 3 to 4 tablespoons bread , crumbs .

I use stale bread just process it and keep it in freezer .

One teaspoon each black pepper , salt hot paprika or sweet you can use and four of a teaspoon baking soda to give you an idea .

I will stuff some of the meatballs the with cheese .

I'm gonna use big food processor for this .

It really makes everything so easy .

But traditionally , we just grate the onions and mix everything in a big bowl and meat by hand .

It's up to you .

You can do both ways .

So first I added the onion and the parsley taking out the big stems and going to process both until they are in fine pieces .

Not like a , it should be .

This is enough .

Next .

Going to add the meat bread crumbs .

Don't throw your stale bread you can use for making and the seasonings and a small hint .

I use baking soda to give like a chewy texture to my .

And this is a good hint used by restaurants but some people home cookers , I can say prefer to use it and some doesn't , but I like to have some on my .

So I do do use it .

Just mix everything by pulsing until everything is neat .

Well , we're gonna continue to need a little bit by hand .

If you have time , it is always better to rest the mixture in the fridge for at least 2 to 3 hours or you can even make it overnight or in the morning and shape it close to dinner time .

It will create more flavor than it is rested .

So , since I'm going to uh feel half , half of it with some cheese , I just barely separate the mixture in half and going to shape it .

Now I dip my hands to both from time to time to prevent sticking and just shape it in a bowl and press it to make it flat .

We want to make it as flat as possible because it will come together when it cooks and will be more like a ball shape while I continue to shape the , I would like to remind you that if you like my videos , you can support me by commenting , liking and especially sharing my videos on your social media accounts .

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So with the half of the mixture , I have about 8 to 10 pieces of .

And for the second half , I'm going to uh fill it with some cheese .

You can use cheese .

This is , we call , it's more , it's another uh similar kind of uh cheese similar to we have .

So in this version , I had a little less than a mandarin size of piece first make it very a flat .

And after placing uh two pieces of cheese , I close it more and uh seal the ends the sides .

It would be a nice surprise to have cheese filled in the for cheese lovers .

So I have my ready to cook .

Let's go to as a side dish .

I'm going to , they grill some tomatoes and green peppers .

These are sweet green peppers .

I have big giant tomatoes .

So I'm gonna cut them in veggies and to cook my and veggies .

I'm gonna use cast iron griddle here .

It's already heated .

I just brushed it with some olive oil .

You can also use heavy but non stick pan or grill it .

And now it's time to sizzle .

You want to cook inside to cut this fully .

So the heat should be not very high or medium , I can say so it can cook evenly .

You can partially cover it with a lid to have some steam on top .

I'm gonna complete my menu with some Turkish pizza with or I have the full recipe .

I'm gonna add the links for you .

It is really a traditional way of serving .

The , let's check the , it's been about 34 minutes probably .

And three of them are playing characters and three of them has cheese in it .

It says nice crust and golden like color .

So I turned it over and also the tomato , since the peppers are in different shape , they might need to press it .

So I have this grill press but you can use your pan for it too .

And here I wanted to show you another a traditional way of serving the rice which is close to serving time .

You just melt some butter and cook until it has some nutty flavor and some brown color and simply drizzle it all over the cooked gently , fold it to mix everything with a little and it's just a way of serving it with a double flavor coming from the butter .

I should mention that .

Sadly , the curtains look darker because of the light coming from the plate and the rice out in the kitchen .

But I can assure you that they have nice golden color but not burned .

So this is how you serve it .

Just feel it bit generously with uh grilled tomato and pepper and digging .

So I hope you give it a try this delicious traditional dish of turkey .

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