Bulgur Meatballs (Fellah Köfte)

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Bulgur wheat is a popular grain in Turkey. This food is made from cracked or crushed wheat grains. In Turkey, it is used as a side dish or as a filling in pastries called pide. There is also a variety of traditional dishes such as mezes (small plates), including salads, cooked vegetables, grilled meats, stews and soups. For the ingredients needed for this recipe, you need a pound of ground beef, a pound of bulgur wheat, a cup of minced onion, two teaspoons of salt, a teaspoon of pepper, and about a tablespoon of oil.

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Bulgur Meatballs (Fellah Köfte) Recipe

Recipe by Sema AynourCourse: Foods u0026amp; Desert, Turkish FoodCuisine: Turkish FoodDifficulty: Easy

Servings

servings

Prep time

minutes

Cooking time

minutes

Calories

450

kcal

Total time

minutes

Bulgur meatballs are made out of bulgur wheat which is cooked into a soft consistency. This dish makes a great topping for any type of pasta or rice. Bulgur meatballs are also used as an ingredient in many other dishes.

Ingredients

2 glasses of fine bulgur
2 glasses of hot water

1 glass of semolina
3 spoon flour
1 spoon tomato paste

1 spoon pepper paste
1 dessert spoon salt
half glass of hot water

1 egg
1 dessert spoon cumin
For boiling
water
1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon powdered essence of lemon
For sauce

1,5 cup of olive oil
5-6 cloves of garlic
2 spoon pepper paste

4 grated tomatoes
salt
parsley

Directions

First, put the bulgur in a bowl for meatball. Add hot water on it and cover it with stretch film. Let it rest for 10-15 minutes.
Remove the stretch and mix it with a wooden spoon.
Add semolina, flour, tomato paste, pepper paste and salt on it. Start kneading. Add hot water from time to time while kneading. This way you can knead more easily.

After making sure that the dough has cooled enough, add eggs on it.
Add cumin and knead the dough for the last time.
After the dough is ready, it’stime to shape the dough. For this, take a bowl of water with you. Then, wetyour fingertips, break off a small piece of dough and shape it into a cylinder.After this shape, break it into small pieces and make it take the shape of aball.

Press down on the ball-shaped dough with your little finger.
Then flour any tray and take these ball-shaped meatballs there.
Continue this process untilthe dough is finished.

Then put water in a pot andwait for it to boil. Add lemon juice and salt in it. (You can also do thisright after the dough is ready.)
Then transfer the meatballs tothe pot. Stir occasionally and cook for about 5-8 minutes.
Take the boiled meatballs on the serving plate.

To prepare the sauce, takeolive oil in the pan, add the finely chopped garlic and fry. Add the tomatopaste and continue frying.
Take the grated tomatoes intothe pan and continue frying.
Before turning off the bottom of the sauce, add salt and finely chopped parsley and fry for 2 more minutes.

Combine the sauce you prepared with the meatballs , mix it thoroughly with the sauce.
Bulgur meatballs with plenty of sauce are ready, enjoy your meal.