Kadınbudu Köfte

Soft meatballs of half-cooked minced beef and rice, dipped in flour and egg and fried.

Ingredients

  • 500 g ground beef
  • ½ cup rice
  • 1 onion
  • 1 tsp cumin
  • 3 eggs
  • ½ cup flour
  • 1 cup vegetable oil
  • salt (to taste)
  • black pepper (to taste)

Method

  1. Boil and drain the rice. Cook half the beef with the grated onion until dry, then let it cool.
  2. Knead the cooked beef with the raw beef, rice, 1 egg, cumin, salt and pepper.
  3. Shape egg-sized pieces into flat ovals.
  4. Coat them in flour, then in beaten egg, and fry in hot oil until golden on both sides.