{"id":465,"date":"2010-04-13T11:11:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T03:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foodfourthought.com.au\/blog\/?p=465"},"modified":"2010-06-08T09:06:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T01:06:19","slug":"lamb-koftas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foodfourthought.com.au\/blog\/lamb-koftas\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamb koftas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I generally have a few staple dinners that I cook during the week.\u00a0 You know what I mean, those dishes that you know take minimum time to prepare and taste great for what they are.\u00a0 Lately though, I have been trying to make sure that I cook a few different things.\u00a0 That, combined with wanting to use up items in the freezer, has meant that I need to be a little more creative.<\/p>\n

Minced lamb is probably my favourite minced meat because it has a sweetness that beef just can\u2019t compete with.\u00a0 So discovering a few packets in my freezer was like finding a wonderful present hidden under the Christmas tree, I was quite excited.\u00a0 (I know it is very sad that I am excited by finding a particular item in my freezer but that is part of the life of a self confessed food\/cooking junkie :-)).\u00a0 I even knew exactly what I wanted to do with it.\u00a0 So after searching the www for what I needed, I came up with this recipe.\u00a0 I hope you enjoy it as much as we did.<\/p>\n

lamb koftas (recipe\u00a0from Taste.com.au)
\nserves 8<\/span><\/p>\n

My tips:\u00a0<\/span> *Use the best quality lamb mince that\u00a0you can afford as it will make a difference to the finished dish.\u00a0 *I didn\u2019t have a red onion so I just used a brown one and it was fine.\u00a0 *I found that combining the mixture by hand gave me the best result as I could feel that everything was incorporated properly.\u00a0 *You can prepare the mixture ahead of time and refrigerate it for a few hours until you are ready to cook the koftas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>ease: 9\/10.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>
\nprep time:\u00a015mins.<\/strong>
\ncooking time: 20mins.<\/strong>
\ntotal: 35mins.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

taste: 10\/10.<\/strong>\u00a0 These were delicious.\u00a0 We decided to serve them with salad, hummus, natural yoghurt with lemon juice and pita bread so that we could make them into a kind of sandwich.\u00a0 They were also great just on their own, the spices and freshness of the herbs were balanced well and gave them a delicious flavour.\u00a0 The condiments, especially the yoghurt and lemon juice, just topped them off.\u00a0 G was very lucky to have any leftover for lunch the next day.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

would I make it again:\u00a0Absolutely<\/strong> \u2013 I\u2019d just make more of them.<\/p>\n

Lamb kofta recipe<\/a>\u00a0– From Good Taste, October 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I generally have a few staple dinners that I cook during the week. You know what I mean, those dishes that you know take minimum time to prepare and taste great for what they are. Lately though, I have been trying to make sure that I cook a few different things. That, combined […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,85,35,23],"tags":[122,7,107,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodfourthought.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodfourthought.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodfourthought.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodfourthought.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodfourthought.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodfourthought.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodfourthought.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodfourthought.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodfourthought.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodfourthought.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodfourthought.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}