Çiğ Köfte 🇹🇷

RECIPE (6 servings, 30min prep time):
-400g fine bulgur
-2/3 cup (150ml) tomato sauce
-1 1/4 cup (300ml) water
-4 Tbsp tomato paste
-2 Tbsp pepper paste
-1 1/2 Tbsp chili powder
-1 Tsp cumin
-1 1/2 Tsp salt
Heat up the water and tomato sauce.
Mix with the remaining ingredients and let it sit for 20mins.
-1 onion
-2 cloves garlic
-1/2 bunch parsley
Finely chop everything
-2 Tbsp pomegranate syrup
-2 Tbsp olive oil
Add to the bulgur mix and knead really well for 5 mins.
Shape into Çiğ Köfte and serve with lettuce, lemon juice and pomegranate syrup.

[@seyma-qj4jr]

aaaah çiğköfte! for anyone that wants to make this, i recommend using more tomato paste than red pepper paste (it tastes better that way tbh) :)

[@sheranlanger247]

I have a red pepper intolerance. I've found it almost impossible eating out in Türkiye 😢

[@frankiefanur4420]

I use both :)))

[@aybukebulat]

A tip from someone makes this everyday at a restaurant: You can try putting tomatoes onions and garlic in a food processor until they're a soft puree, and use it instead what you did with water. It still looks amazing and better than any foreign version I've seen ^^ (And I think corn oil goes better with it than olive oil)

[@ErichHoneckerDDR]

Aynen

[@marvin2678]

dont you have to kneel i for an hour?

[@aybukebulat]

​@@marvin2678 if you mean for kneading, that's usually when you're making it in big batches so if you're not making a lot you can just do it quicker

[@ayca7590]

Afiyet olsun!

[@DaruWarchief]

I'm blessed with with my turkish and my syrian neighbors who often bring me treats like that, big love here

[@ruveydagunes3457]

it looks more like kısır which is another traditional and vegan turkish dish :)

[@mikeskylark1594]

Cok Guzel!

[@nini7904]

Afiyet olsunnnn

[@hacilesensoy7429]

Çok güzel.eline sağlık.

[@BelugaX_X]

My Fav food And im turkish

[@nicolestefan8655]

Big love ❤ with parsley and mint 🤌🏼 Danke für das Rezept 🙌🏼

[@mcdanky9461]

Çiğköfte is so tasty 😋

[@savemotherearthsairajiv795]

Once I had this in school and loved it and wanted to make it. Now I can 😊

[@fahrialtundag56_]

thank you alot for this dishes ❤️as a vegan and Turkish you make me sooo proud 🇹🇷❤️enjoy , afiyet olsunnn

[@jessu7099]

it‘s the best thing ever

[@quellepls2568]

Thats great ❤

[@Qeavz]

i love my çiğköfte wrap with burger sauce!

[@elifcetin7410]

hahaha you are so cute!

[@user-ss8hj7ou7n]

P.S. We have a realyyyy good recipes))

[@eline7612]

Mayaaa❤❤❤ you are çok güzel❤

[@bAa-xj3ut]

How many days can i keep it in the fridge?☘️🌸🌿

[@LondonTurco]

🥹😍🤤 is Form GAZIANTEP 🇹🇷💪🏽

[@arvindchitoor9007]

This is coursely ground wheat flour right chef?😊

[@tanmaya1111]

Thanks

[@MeenakshiSharma-h3f]

One question please. That bulgur doesn't need to be cooked?

[@vanillablossom]

That's what confuses me, too. All bulgurs I ever bought definitely needed to be cooked, not soaked. I suspect it might be kuskus, which is actually tiny pasta, it doesn't need real cooking, buuut you should pour hot water over it and after few minutes it's ready to eat / use. Maybe this is some special kind? But why then no one in this comment section mentions it?

[@sevilly]

I soak fine bulgur in warm water for 20 min, than add other ingredients in bulgur, should not be watery.

[@arya_ra]

Do İran pls

[@user-rx3br2hg8b]

Bulgur ince ve esmer olması gerekiyordu. 😅

[@ShanonSaunders]

What is the sauce?

[@slapovi707]

Is this baked? Or raw?

[@realthink123]

İs raw

[@realthink123]

But is not orginal , orginal çiğköfte have raw meat

[@pixelmango2920]

​@@realthink123 Not really, Çiğköfte has two versions and without meat one is more common.

[@_Efer_]

Çiğ literally means raw

[@user-ss8hj7ou7n]

Can you make a Ukrainian kitchen🙏 Now we have war in our country Please stand with Ukraine. Stand with true💛💙

[@buckl3y2417]

She made Ukrainian dumplings on her tiktok a while ago!

[@eiramu]

To be fair, it’s meatless çiğ köfte, since it literally means raw

[@asmrmaroxa]

No cooking, frying, boiling, baking? No? Okay.

[@loveedenis]

Thats not çiğ köfte ,its kısır lol .

[@mkbijnaam8713]

I mean looks ''cok guzel '' indeed but this is more like a mashed ''Kisir'' and not cig kofte . Ingredients might be almost the same but cig kofte neads alot of kneading .

[@octinauti6037]

you didn't throw it to the ceiling to check it's consistency :( otherwise amazing recipe 👍🏼

[@syedasamara0316]

WTF?!

[@rb708]

as a turkish, it's intense kısır but not çiğköfte. çiğköfte process is way more different and difficult, çiğköfte needs to be more intense and firm than you made which basically called hot lokum in Türkiye lmao

[@Visitkarte]

Dear Maja I would love if you would make this recipe from my old country, (North) Macedonia: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYfUlWh4ob54bZosi=bPUyGDbQLLD4rMYm It’s already vegan (some add meat but not on Friday and during Easter fasting time) and it originally contains spicy dried 🌶️. It’s delicious.

[@sleepykittybunny7656]

Du musst es 20 min kneten mind…

[@ayerdinom5099]

Its not turkish, cigköfte comes from the kurds but turks love it to call food from difficult cultures turkish food. Like greek food, turks call greek food turkish to but actually its not.

[@isedim]

Ok

[@pixelmango2920]

I got rid of explaining this everytime to people who thinks like you but We all came from Ottoman Empire! Of course our foods will be similar but this is a represent thing. Turks used to love Çiğköfte more and did it more, they represented it better and now Çiğköfte is Turkish. Meanwhile Falafel is Arab and Tzakziki is Greek. We all came from the same Empire. Like how Greek and region Aegean may have similar foods, all of them may!

[@nourvanwest070]

@@pixelmango2920exexpt for Israelis who steal all our recipes, because they have no culture

[@lftm0]

​@@pixelmango2920 ottman foods are exclusievly mean turkish food like dolma Bacha (sheep head guts) doner baklava lahmucen but not kurdsh cusine like burguler kofte and whats sad you recognized arabs dish and Greek but didnt even mentions kurdish food and thats just tell how r acist you are

[@Shyk]

Thats not cigköfte you did kisir!!! There need more knead with isot olive oil and pomegrante sirup

[@Jnnnseats]

Bu kısır değil sen Türk değilsinki nerden biliyorsun ben Türk um ve bu çiğköfte

[@calvinandres2677]

Cultural appropriation

[@okay8667]

You misspelled appreciation

[@dekenlst]

This looks gross

[@ICANTFINDNAMELOL]

But it's tastes Soo good you need to try

[@FragbiteOeXistenz]

Its funny how you vegans always try to make your foods look like meat. Its so obvious that you crave meat its amazing hahaha

[@huda9445]

Some vegans are vegans for environmental purposes or animals not because they hated the taste of meat, and some for health issues , their are many types so it isn’t weird that some do try to replicate meat flavors. P.s. I’m not vegan this just what I learned from following a bunch of vegans because to fun to see other types of food to me

[@VLEO]

It’s funny how you think this would look like meat. You must be obsessed with meat to see it even here.

[@heyitsmebee]

@@huda9445 This is true. My husband is vegetarian. He really doesn't like vegetables. 😂

[@argunberkedogan168]

Traditionally this dish is made as she do, the only difference is that we add also ground meat in it you idiot. This dish is not originally a vegan dish but you can veganise it like she did. The appearence is not related to meat, the reason it looks like meat is that we add a lot of different seasoning which make it brownish red.

[@niceup1177]

the meat variant has been banned in 2008 because the raw meat was potentially harmful for your health. thats why and how this variant came to play.

[@langnasewinklersson5841]

thats so false that it is not cig köfte