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Kofta is a family of meatball or meatloaf dishes found in South Asian, Central Asian, Balkan, Middle Eastern, North African, and South Caucasian cuisines. In the simplest form, koftas consist of balls of minced meat —usually beef, chicken, pork, lamb or mutton, or a mixture—mixed with spices and sometimes other ingredients. [ 1 ]
Çiğ köfte (Turkish pronunciation: [tʃiː cœfte]) or chee kofta [1] is a kofta dish that is a regional specialty of southeastern Anatolia in Urfa. The dish is served as an appetizer or meze, and it is closely related with kibbeh nayyeh from Levantine cuisine. [2] Çiğ köfte is common to both Armenian [1] [3] [4] and Turkish cuisines. [5]
Malai is a major ingredient in malai kofta dumplings and in sweet dishes like malai pedha, ras malai and malai kulfi. [4] Fried koftas are made with potatoes and paneer. [5] The flavour becomes even richer when vegetables are added to it. An example of this would be methi matar malai where the main constituent is green peas. [4]
Keftes, also known as Keftikes in Sephardic cuisine, are croquettes, pancakes, patties, or fritters, usually made with vegetables, and other ingredients. Sephardic keftes are not the same as the non-Jewish kofta which are meatballs. Keftes might not contain meat, as opposed to the kofta which do contain meat.
The word kofta is derived from Persian kūfta: In Persian, کوفتن (kuftan) means "to beat" or "to grind" or 'meatball'. [30] In the simplest form, koftas consist of balls or fingers of minced or ground meat – usually beef or lamb – mixed with spices and/or onions and other ingredients. The vegetarian variety is popular in India.
Nargesi Kebab, Nargesi Kofta or Narges Shami Kebab is an Afghan, Middle Eastern, Pakistani and Indian dish. It can be described as a kind of kebab or kofta with a chicken egg in the middle. It is named after the Narcissus flower because kebabs look like the flower's petals when they are cut.
A vegetarian kebab prepared using lentils and spinach [18] [19] Tangri kebab: Chicken legs roasted on open fire with hot spices and laced with butter or ghee [20] Kastoori kebab [21] Dahi ke kabab [22] Burra kebab [23] [24] Kalmi kebab A chicken kebab. [25] Kalmi kebab is pictured on the left in the image. Paneer kabab: Vegetarian kebab Reshmi ...
The vegetable leaves may be cabbage, patience dock, collard, grapevine, kale or chard leaves. Sarma is part of the broader category of stuffed dishes known as dolma , and has equivalents (such as the Polish Gołąbki ) in Eastern European cuisines from the northern Baltic through Romania.