Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, beef kofta. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Making kofta is an ancient way of grilling ground meat. Aromatic and savory spices are added to the meat and it is shaped around a skewer for grilling. It is a lot like a sausage, but without the casing. The secret to successful koftas is to make sure the meat is sticky enough to hold together on the skewers.
Beef kofta is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Beef kofta is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have beef kofta using 8 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Beef kofta:
- Take 500 gms lean minced beef
- Get 1 habanero chilli
- Make ready 1 tbls lemon juice
- Make ready 3 cloves garlic
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Take 2 tbls parsley leaves
- Make ready 1 tbls mint leaves
- Get 1 small onion
Add half the chilli, the coriander stalks, turmeric, honey, curry paste and coconut milk, then blitz until combined. Pour into the kofta pan, bring to the boil, then simmer and season to taste. We call it Kafta in Lebanon and it's also widely known as Kofta in other Middle Eastern countries. It's basically a meatball using either beef, chicken or lamb, mixed with herbs, Middle Eastern spices and onions.
Steps to make Beef kofta:
- Add parsley and mint in food processor and pulse until leaves are chopped
- Add garlic and onions and pulse until chopped and mixed with the herbs
- Add the minced beef, salt and lemon juice and pulse until all ingredients are mixed
- Form patties and leave aside
- Heat a grill pan with some cooking oil and grill each patty for about 1 minute or so on each side (until cooked 😊). I prefer it when grill marks form on the patties. You can cook these over a bbq grill too 😉
- I served these up with a minty homemade sour cream
We call it Kafta in Lebanon and it's also widely known as Kofta in other Middle Eastern countries. It's basically a meatball using either beef, chicken or lamb, mixed with herbs, Middle Eastern spices and onions. Beef kofta curry is a very common dish in the Middle East as well as in Southern and Central Asian cuisine. 'Kofta' originates from the Persian word ' koftah ' which means pounded meat. Simply put, they are balls of ground meat, which usually consist of beef, pork, lamb or chicken. Season and, using your hands, mix thoroughly until well combined.
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