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Kofta Tahini

Author Nadia Hubbi

Ingredients

  • 1 lb Ground beef (or lamb - if using lamb combine it with beef otherwise it's too heavy)
  • 2 Small onions 1 cut in round slices and 1 minced
  • 1/4 cup flat-leaf parsley
  • 1 tablespoon All Spice (if you cannot find middle eastern all spice you can mix 1/2 teaspoon of each ground cinnamon, paprika, cumin, ground cloves, nutmeg & coriander)
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • 1 potato cut in either thick slices or round
  • 1 tbsp kosher salt
  • 1 Tbs oil

Tahini Sauce

  • 1 cup Tahini
  • 1/2 cup lemon juice juice of 1 lemon
  • 1 tbsp salt
  • 1/2 cup water added gradually to tahini

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees

  2. Toss potatoes in oil and salt and put in the oven for 10 minutes on each side on baking sheet sprayed in oil

  3. If frying potatoes, heat up vegetable oil and fry at this point and set aside

  4. Lower heat to 375

  5. In food processor or grater pulse onion and parsley or chop finely

  6. Add onion mixture to ground beef along with spices, salt and pepper

  7. Mix with your hands long enough for all the flavors to really mix together (1-2 minutes) 

  8. Using your hands make round balls then press them so they long and are fingerlike length and form kabob shape.  Put in the fridge for 5 -10 minutes at least and up to a day

  9. Using either vegetable oil or sunflower oil sautee the kabobs in a frying pan. Sautee them about 5-6 minutes so they are brown on the outside but still slightly rare on the inside (we're going to put them back in the oven so you don't want them to overcook but instead finish cooking in the oven)

  10. Place onion discs on the bottom of a pyrex, top with kabobs, and pour tahini sauce over

  11. Cover in the oven for 25 minutes.  Remove cover, add potatoes and put back in the oven for additional 10 minutes or until kofta is cooked through

  12. Garnish with parsley, paprika, and/or pine nuts

    Serve with rice or pita bread

Tahini Sauce

  1. Whisk together tahini, juice of lemon and salt.  Gradually add water so it is a thick creamy consistency.  Adjust lemon and salt to taste.