🇹🇷 Turkey recipe
Çiğ Köfte
Once made with raw meat, modern Turkish cig kofte is a vegan street food sensation made from fine bulgur wheat kneaded intensely with tomato paste, pepper paste, and an array of spices until the bulgur transforms into a soft, spicy, almost raw-meat-like texture. Shaped into oval patties or balls, they are served wrapped in lettuce leaves with a generous squeeze of lemon and pomegranate molasses.
Prep20 mins
Cook0 mins
Serves6
Difficultyeasy
Ingredients
- 2 cups fine bulgur wheat (kisirlik bulgur)
- 3 tbsp tomato paste
- 2 tbsp red pepper paste (biber salcasi)
- 1 medium onion, very finely grated
- 3 green onions, finely chopped
- 1/4 cup fresh flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped
- 1 tsp cumin
- 1 tsp Aleppo pepper flakes (pul biber)
- 1 tsp isot biber (Urfa pepper flakes)
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 tsp allspice
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp salt
- 3 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 1 tbsp pomegranate molasses
- 1/2 cup hot water (as needed)
- Lettuce leaves, lemon wedges, and pomegranate molasses for serving
Method
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Nutrition per serving
- Calories
- 226
- Protein
- 6 g
- Carbs
- 41 g
- Fat
- 5 g
