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Sizzling Spiced Kofta Delight
Category: Main Dish - (825)
Origin: Sudan, Middle East
Source: Noel Mogga
Kofta is spiced minced meatballs fried and cooked in an aromatic spicy stew of onions and tomatoes, eaten with bread.
Ingredients:
- 1.5 pounds of minced meat
- Onions diced
- ¼ cup of rice boiled in water for 15 minutes to get it halfway cooked
Spices: Freshly ground black pepper, coriander seeds, cumin, cinnamon.
Use a pestle and mortar to grind these.
Garlic: Use a pestle and mortar to make it into a paste.
- Onions diced
- ¼ cup of rice boiled in water for 15 minutes to get it halfway cooked
Spices: Freshly ground black pepper, coriander seeds, cumin, cinnamon.
Use a pestle and mortar to grind these.
Garlic: Use a pestle and mortar to make it into a paste.
Preparation:
- Mix the minced meat with 1 teaspoon of the the above spices, ¼ of an onion finely sliced, salt. Add the partially cooked white rice. Add salt. Mix thoroughly using hands.
- Shape into oval meatballs.
- Fry in a cast iron pan on medium heat, with a low amount of oil. The goal is to brown the outside and cook on the inside, please note this is not a deep fry. - Fry each batch for 5 minutes.
- Set that aside and work on the tomato sauce. It took me about 30 minutes to make the sauce.
- Add 1 teaspoon of oil to a pot, fry the diced onion until golden brown.
- Add 4 tomatoes, diced. Keep stirring, add small amounts of water to prevent burning. As it cooks use edge of wooden spoon to mash the onions and tomatoes.
- Add 1 tablespoon of tomato paste and ½ cup of tomato sauce.. This is to thicken the sauce.
- Add 1 tablespoon of garlic paste.
- Add the rest of your spice mix.
- Slice 1 green pepper and add to the stew mix.
- Add the fried meatballs to the stew, cover and cook for 15 minutes.
- Turn heat off.
- Sprinkle fresh chopped parsley to add color. Serve.
- Shape into oval meatballs.
- Fry in a cast iron pan on medium heat, with a low amount of oil. The goal is to brown the outside and cook on the inside, please note this is not a deep fry. - Fry each batch for 5 minutes.
- Set that aside and work on the tomato sauce. It took me about 30 minutes to make the sauce.
- Add 1 teaspoon of oil to a pot, fry the diced onion until golden brown.
- Add 4 tomatoes, diced. Keep stirring, add small amounts of water to prevent burning. As it cooks use edge of wooden spoon to mash the onions and tomatoes.
- Add 1 tablespoon of tomato paste and ½ cup of tomato sauce.. This is to thicken the sauce.
- Add 1 tablespoon of garlic paste.
- Add the rest of your spice mix.
- Slice 1 green pepper and add to the stew mix.
- Add the fried meatballs to the stew, cover and cook for 15 minutes.
- Turn heat off.
- Sprinkle fresh chopped parsley to add color. Serve.