If you visit Turkey, you’ll see köfte—balls of ground meat (or sometimes ground vegetables) seasoned with onion, herbs, and spices—everywhere. The recipes vary from region to region and town to town. Some köfte are made with bulgur, rice, or breadcrumbs; others are meat only, mostly lamb, but sometimes a combination of beef and lamb. 
- A Turkish Recipe for Köfte
- This is a recipe for standard köfte. If you travel around Turkey, you will see meat köfte of various shapes and slightly different ingredients depending on the region you're in. Right, on with our recipe:
https://twitter.com/lordofistanbult- First of all, go to your local butcher and get 250g of minced beef or lamb. Our local butcher in Istanbul is really good and minces the meat for us. Lean mince is more healthy but for a decent köfte, you need to at least go for orta yağlı meat (medium fat) as it softens the texture a little and makes them more juicy.
Toasting your spices first really brings the strong flavours out
- In a hot pan, toast a pinch of cumin seed, 2 fennel seeds (they're strong so no more than 2), and a pinch of coriander seed. This only takes a couple of minutes. Take them off the heat as soon as you can smell them.
- Add your toasted seeds along with a few peppercorns and a pinch of sea salt to a pestle and mortar and grind them all up.
Get all your ingredients together
- Spread your minced meat out on a plate, grate half an onion and a clove of garlic and sprinkle over the top.
- Next, sprinkle your spices and as many red hot chilli flakes as you like. You know us by now. Chillies are not essential - for some people.
- Whisk a small egg and pour this over, too. Now you need to get your hands in and need it all together. I use a big plate because it makes it easier to get an even mixture.
- If your mixture feels really wet, you can add a few breadcrumbs (most recipes will tell you to add breadcrumbs) but I try not to add too many as they dry the mixture up too much sometimes. If you can form the köfte shapes without the breadcrumbs then they're not necessary.
Köfte mixture rolled into mini burger shapes- Take little chunks of your mixture, roll each chunk into a golf ball shape and then pat down between your hands. 250 grams of minced meat will give you about 10 köfte.
- If you've got time, leave your köfte in the fridge for a couple of hours or so as this helps them to set.
Barbecued köfte
- The best way to cook köfte is on a barbecue. Lower them towards the coals to seal them and then take them higher to cook them slowly. Cut one in half to check they're cooked after around 10 minutes. Obviously, you can grill them (or be really naughty and fry them) but we only ever make köfte if we're barbecuing.
- And if you barbecue them, you don't need to feel quite as guilty about buying a medium fat meat.
Of course, following on from yesterday's post, if it's a burger you're after, just make your köfte a bit bigger and stick it on a bun. That's a proper burger!
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