Turkish 'kofte' Sandwich

Bollie's Note:

Sandwich with beef meatballs and yoghurt dressing for a nice warm summer evening. In Turkey they use ground lamb for this. But that's optional..

• Total Time: 30 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 4 ounces ground beef
• 2 onions
• 2 garlic cloves
• salt and pepper
• parsley or mint
• 1/2 cucumber
• olive oil
• thick yoghurt
• Turkish bread
• 2 tomatoes
• lettuce

Directions:

1. Chop onions, 1 clove of garlic and parsley.
2. Mix the onions, garlic and parsley with the ground beef and a bit of salt and pepper.
3. With your hands make walnut shaped little meatballs.
4. You can either grill the meatballs, or cook them in some olive oil.
5. In the meantime, mix the yoghurt with garlic and mint.
6. Slice tomatoes, lettuce and cucumber.
7. Now take a turkish bread (flat, round thick bread) cut in 4 squares, open them and 'butter up' the bread with the yoghurt dressing.
8. Put in lettuce tomatoes, cucumbers and meatballs, and finish with some extra yoghurt dressing.

Reviews

[FrenchBunny]

This was a yummy sandwich. Can't get Turkish bread here so I went to Panera's and bought their assiago foccacia bread. Perfect!! I really think the yogurt mix makes the difference in the flavor of the sandwich. I had used greek yogurt because I think it has a better flavor and it is nice and thick. I had purchased the 7oz container. I had gone for fresh parsley since I forgot to buy mint. I had used about 1/4 cup in the meatballs and had made 10 walnut size balls. I sauteed the meatballs in some olive oil. The flavors really blended well together. I think I would like to try the mint next time to see the difference. Thanks so much for sharing your recipe Bollie.

[Derf]

WOW! what a great sandwich, sooo much flavour! It has a lovely freshness from the mint, both in the spread and in the meatballs. I used ground turkey and the mint rather than the parsleybeef, and sooo glad I did, cooked the meatballs with a little olive oil in a frypan. To thicken the yogurt I put it in a strainer in the morning to let all the moisture run out, it was lovely and thick by supper time. We loved the yogurt mix with garlic and mint and I will make it to use on other food, lovely fresh flavour. Unable to find real Turkish bread, I brought a lovely round focaccia loaf topped with onion and parmesan cheese, it worked deliciously! We don't eat "huge" sammies very often but I sure will keep this one in my hard copy and will make it again when the craving arises for a heafty sammie!!! It was soooo good and really not all that bad in calories, carbs and sugar. I just used half the round loaf for the 2 of us, half a recipe, a whole one could be split into about 8 pieces for a luncheon!! Wonderful tasty sammie deserving of more than the 5 stars!! Thanks for posting.