Red Lentil Kofte / Mercimek Köftesi

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This vegetarian kofte is i of the most pop appetizers of Turkish cuisine.




























1 loving cup carmine lentil
1/2 loving cup fine bulgur
1/2 loving cup olive oil
ii cups of water
1 medium onion, real finely chopped
1 tsp cumin
1 tbsp tomato plant glue + 1 tbsp carmine pepper glue (if you lot cannot notice carmine pepper glue you lot tin flame role ii tbsp tomato plant paste)
1 tsp salt
juice of one-half or 1 lemon (depends on how you lot similar it: sour or non then sour)
1/3 bunch parsley, finely chopped
1/2 bunch greenish onion, finely chopped
curly leafage lettuce



























-Wash lentils together with boil them inwards ii cups of H2O until the H2O is most gone.
-Once you lot plough it off, add together bulgur together with salt. Mix i time together with comprehend to allow the bulgur expand. Let it cool off.
-Heat stone oil inwards a pan together with add together the onion (not the greenish one!) together with produce until soft.
-Add tomato plant glue together with produce for about other 1-2 minutes.
-Add cumin together with stir i time you lot plough it off.
-Add this to the lentils which should hold upward cool yesteryear now.
-Add lemon juice together with one-half of finely chopped parsley together with greenish onion (we're saving the residuum of parsley together with greenish onions to garnish) to the lentils. Mix all well.
-Take walnut size pieces together with give them kofte cast inwards your hands. Keep a picayune bowl of H2O closed yesteryear to moisture your  hand oft during this procedure since the kofte mixture volition larn stuck on your hands.
-You tin flame either house lettuce leaves on a serving plate together with position koftes on elevation every bit inwards the picture, or serve koftes together with lettuce leaves separately, or skip lettuce leaves completely; however, they reallly larn good together.
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