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Kofta The Arabic Version

Again with the old photo archives and you are wondering why am I now posting this. As you can tell my old nokia flip phone is there. I had a digital camera a kodak which is old and kaput along with an old movie camera too that is also not good and needs to go in the trash heap. However at this time it served it’s purpose and these mouth watering koftas are paired with hummus, ful, and baba ghanouj which is all posted here on this blog and sorry for the lateness of this post. But hey it is better late then never, right?

Take 1 lb or 1 kg of ground beef, chicken, turkey, veal, lamb or goat. Rinse under cold water and drain to remove the impurities which happens to be the blood. Place in to a bowl and add 1 handful of rice flour for binding. Mince 3 cloves of garlic and 1 small onion or shallot. Add 1 pinch of either mint, cilantro or parsley, 1 pinch of sumac, in mortar and pestle add 1 pinch each of cumin seeds, coriander seeds, black peppercorns, 1 broken piece of cinnamon stick then grind in to coarse powder and add it to ground meat mixture.

Add 1 pinch of either kosher salt, vegtea seasoning, seasoned salt, pink salt or sea salt, mix again. Also this is not seikh kabab that you see in Pakistan and their kofta is like a meatball. The Afghani kofta is similar to this one too. Put 1 pinch of red chili powder, turmeric and paprika in this mixture and mix one more time then place on skewers like in the picture. There are several ways you can do this. On a baking sheet tear off some aluminum foil and line the baking sheet with it. spray with cooking spray or coat it with 1 tbs of either olive oil, grapeseed oil or butter ghee.

Turn on the broiler and cook for 10 minutes, in the oven at 400F or 200C for 15 minutes and on the grill Which I have an electric. Place foil on top of the grill surface to keep it clean and the highest it goes is 5 and it should be at 3 for also 15 minutes by turning as you go. Be sure to spray the foil on top of the grill before cooking to keep the kofta from sticking with cooking spray.

Also the chairs are the orginal that went with this table and Mr. Riaz found replacement chairs in good condition and cheap at a yard sale. The kofta’s serving suggestion that was posted before that is in this profile picture is now complete. Enjoy it with leban, coffee or even tea.

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