Koftas with Yoghurt Sauce

This is a good and different recipe. My mind kinda goes blank when I look at mince in the supermarket....does that happen to you? Like: what to do with it apart from the usual meatballs and spaghetti? 

The jews, greeks and arabs have pretty fun ways to flavor dull meat for sure. This is one!  By the way when I make this one I double the amounts and do one kilogram of meat. 

INGREDIENTS:

-500 grams of mince (mine was a mix of lamb, beef and pork!) definitely not kosher.
-1/2 purple onion.
-1 garlic clove.
-1 teaspoon of fresh grated ginger.
-1 teaspoon of paprika.
-1 teaspoon of cumin.
-grated peels of one lemon.
-a bunch of cilantro.
-salt and pepper.

For the yoghurt sauce:

-1 yoghurt.

-a bunch of cilantro chopped.

-1 clove of garlic minced.

-the juice of 1/4 of a lemon.

-salt and pepper. 

STEPS:

1. Simple stuff. Mix the mince meat with all the ingredients well, probably best way is with your hands. You can also let it all marinate in the fridge for a while. 

2. Then shape the koftas the way koftas are supposed to be, you do not need the stick, by the way....simply fry it in the saucepan with a tiny bit of oil. And turn it 4 ways so that all sides are a little grilled.

3. Then have some kind of youghurty sauce to go with it. Toss together the ingredients of the yoghurt sauce and serve. 

It is is a great meal, especially if you add a little lamb meat. When I made mine I added 1/2kg of lamb minced meat, and the other half a kilo of pork and beef and worked well.