🇹🇷 How to Make Çiğ Köfte

Craving Çiğ Köfte? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Çiğ Köfte at home, in about 45 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 200g fine bulgur
• 300ml hot water
• 2 tbsp tomato paste, 1 tbsp pepper paste
• 1 onion, grated
• 2 tsp pul biber, 1 tsp cumin
• juice of 1 lemon
• spring onions, parsley and lettuce leaves to serve

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Pour the hot water over the bulgur, cover and leave 20 min until completely soft.
2. Add the pastes, grated onion and spices, and now knead. Properly — 10 to 15 minutes with your whole hand.
3. The kneading is the recipe. It breaks the bulgur down until the mixture turns smooth, dark and slightly tacky.
4. Work in the lemon juice at the end, then the chopped herbs.
5. Squeeze small portions in your fist so they take the imprint of your fingers.
6. Serve in lettuce leaves with extra lemon. The modern version is meat-free; the original was not.