Indian Style Beef Kofta Meatballs ( Paleo, Gluten-Free, Dairy -Free)
GLUTEN FREE II DAIRY FREE II NUT FREE II PALEO II SESAME FREE II SHELLFISH FREE II FISH FREE II SOY FREE
This dish Its spicy, fragrant with bold flavours that will make your taste buds dance and sing! its such a beautiful mix of flavours, colours and textures. I hope you enjoy it!
Spicy and mouth-watering beef koftas can be eaten in many ways. In a wrap, salad, or, you can use this recipe to make spicy burgers. Just divide the recipe into four. I have used this recipe for private dinner parties and functions, and it’s always a hit.
Meat
I used organic and grass fed lamb. Feel free to swap this for beef, turkey or chicken mince.
Rice
I used short grain brown rice, other varieties you could use are white, black, red, wild to name a few. To make this paleo replace the rice with cauliflower ‘rice’.
Ingredients
I have simply served the beef koftas with salad, short grain brown rice and added coriander oil which is basically coriander blended with some oil and seasoning. The dressing is my lemon, garlic, ACV and honey dressing with chopped mint and coriander. You could serve this recipe in naan bread with salad, in a burger or as a salad as I have done.
Makes 4 portions - 45 minutes cooking & prep time
Step by step
Recipe
400 g organic minced beef/lamb
1 medium red onion
30 g coriander chopped
5 cloves garlic chopped
1 organic egg
2 tbsp masala ( I use this one)
3 tbsp mint chopped
salt and pepper
3 green chilli chopped ( optional use more if you're a badass!)
Method
Place all the ingredients into a bowl and mix well.
Cook-off one kofta to test for seasoning before you cook the whole batch only to realise it needs more salt etc
Once you have checked for seasoning, roll the rest of the mixture into even-sized balls.
Cook them first by sealing in a hot frying pan with a tbsp of oil. Once sealed and coloured, pop them in a hot oven for 5 minutes or simply place a lid on the frying pan for 5 minutes and lower the heat.
I once cooked served with salad and rice.
Variations
Try this recipe with minced lamb it works really well. You could alternatively use this recipe to shape into burgers instead and you could serve this in a bun with salad, mango chutney or mint and cucumber yoghurt.
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