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Totally Turkey => Cooking => Topic started by: Chucky on November 11, 2008, 10:40:15 PM
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Kadin Budu Koftesi (Lady''''s Thigh Meatballs)
Ingredients
3/4 cup olive oil
1/4 bunch parsley
1 lbs. semi-fat ground meat
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. black pepper
2 onions
3 Tbls. flour
5 eggs
3-4 Tbls. margarine
2 Tbls. uncooked rice
Directions
Saute the chopped onions and 1/2 of the ground meat with 1 Tbls. margarine. Boil the rice in lots of water till soft, drain and allow to cool.
Remove meat from heat, add the rest of the ground meat, the rice, chopped parsley, salt, black pepper, and 3 eggs and knead well. Take egg-sized pieces of the mixture and form into oval shapes. Put half of the flour on a tray. Place meatballs on the tray and sprinkle the rest of the flour over them.
Beat 2 eggs in a bowl, coat the meatballs with beaten eggs 20 minutes before the meal and fry them in a pan containing 3/4 glass of heated olive oil, till golden.
Take meatballs off the pan with a perforated spoon, draining them well, and place on a serving plate.
Serve with french fries as an accompaniment!
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Joan,
I want to try this but what do you mean by semi-fat mince? Is a Kalkan butcher likely to understand what I mean? I like my spaghetti bolognaise to have a touch of natural oil so have about 20% animal fat with the lean beef mince, do you mean something similar?
Thanks
P.S, I did wonder what I was going to read when I saw this topic title! LOL
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I have taken it as meaning not lean meat minced, but with with some fat in, so I would agree with your take on the recipe.
I have to confess, I have not tried it out yet, so do let me know how you get on.
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I''m not getting at you in any way Joan but it seems a shame to post recipes that aren''t ''tried & tested'' & that one seems odd in that the meat is fried in margarine, not olive oil. I wonder how Turkish it is?
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It was taken from a Turkish recipe site, Sally, and I suspect the original recipe was "translated".
I had already saved it to try as it seemed a simple and easy dish to make. But I take your point, sorry :-[
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Don''t be sorry - it''s just I find there are so b****y many recipes out there & it''s nice to do one that comes either from a cook you know & trust (Delia springs to mind) or that a friend has done! Let me know what it''s like, will you??
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i clicked on hurriedly but was left deflated when i found it was a recipe!! :angel: :laugh:
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I have made these frequently, but with minced lamb, not beef. They are delicious, but a bit fiddly to make!
Ros