52 Recipes in 52 Weeks #10 Lamb Kofta Meatballs

One of my projects for 2024 is to try one new recipe each week for the year.  These will be chosen from all of the flagged pages in cookbooks that I have or from the file of 'need to try' recipes.  I will try new desserts, main dishes, side dishes and breads.

I got way behind in posting new recipes so I'm working on getting caught up.

This is an easy sheet pan dinner that is very versatile.  You can serve this in warm Naan or as a rice bowl. With lemon yogurt or tahini sauce. It's as delicious as it is beautiful.  This recipe comes from Recipe Eats Dinner cookbook.  There are so many wonderful recipes in this book you may be seeing a lot of them here.

For Koftas

grate 1/2 white or yellow onion

1 pound ground lamb

1/4 cup panko or bread crumbs

2 finely minced garlic cloves

2 tbsp. coriander/cilantro finely chopped

Kofta Spices

2 tsp. cumin

2 tsp. coriander

2 tsp. plain paprika or smoked

1 tsp ground cinnamon

3/4tsp cayenne pepper

3/4 tsp sea salt

1/2 tsp. black pepper

Preheat oven to 400 F

Place the Kofta ingredients and spices in a bowl.  Use your hand to combine thoroughly then roll 16 large-ish meatballs. Spread them out on a large tray.

Vegetables

1 large red pepper

1 large yellow pepper

1 red onion, cut into thin wedges

1 tbsp. EVOO

1/4 tsp. salt and pepper

Toss the vegetables with the oil, salt and pepper.  Scatter around the meatballs.

Toss a bit of EVOO on the meatballs.  Bake for 15 minutes then switch the oven to the grill/broiler on high and cook for 5 more minutes. 

Serve with a bit of chopped cilantro and a drizzle of tahini or yogurt sauce.

I highly recommend this recipe.  If you don't care for lamb it did say you could substitute ground beef.  You do want to make the meatballs a bit larger especially when using lamb to keep the meat from drying out.  We gave this a 10!  

                                                               Photo from Nagi's website.