RED LENTIL KOFTE/KOFTESI

RED LENTIL KOFTE/KOFTESI image

Number Of Ingredients 11

1 cup red lentil
1/2 cup fine bulger
2 cups water
1 medium onion, very finely chopped
1 tsp. cumin
1 T. tomato & red pepper paste (if unavailable use 1T. tomato paste and few shakes red pepper flakes.)
1 tsp. salt - scant
juice of 1/2 - 1 lemon - depending on taste
1/3 bunch parsley, finely chopped
1/2 bunch green onion, finely chopped
curley leaf lettuce

Steps:

Wash lentils and boil them in 2 cups of water until almost all water has been soaked up. Turn off pan. Add bulger and salt. Mix once and cover to let the bulger expand. Let cool. Heat oil in pan and add white onion; cook until soft. Add tomato paste and cook for another 1-2 minutes. Add this to the lentils which shoul be cool by now. Add half of finely chopped parsley and green onion to the lentils. Mix all well. Using walnut size pieces, shape mixture into kofte (small croquettes)with your hands. Either place lettuce leaves on a serving plate and put koftes on top, or serve koftes and lettuce leaves separately. However, when you eat them you should wrap each kofte in a lettuce leaf.