Çiğ köfte

Çiğ köfte

Çiğ köfte (pronounced as "chigh keufte" and meaning literally "raw köfte" in Turkish, also written in one word, as "çiğköfte") is a favorite Turkish snack and a speciality of South Eastern (Turkey) region.

Bulgur is kneaded with chopped onions and water until it gets soft. Then tomato and pepper paste, spices and very finely ground beef are added. This absolutely fatless raw mincemeat is treated with spices while kneading the mixture, which is said to "cook" the meat. Lastly, green onions, fresh mint and parsley are mixed in.

One spice that is associated with çiğ köfte, and with Şanlıurfa as a whole, is "isot", a very dark, almost blackish paprika, prepared in a special manner, and which is considered as indispensable for an authentically local preparation of çiğ köfte (and also of lahmacun).

A favorite way of eating çiğ köfte is by sandwiching it within a lettuce leaf, accompanied with good quantities of ayran to counter-act the burning sensation that this very spicy food will give.

For vegetarians, two no-meat versions also exist. In Siverek district of Şanlıurfa, scrambled eggs are used instead of meat. And kısır, a specialty of Gaziantep region Fact|date=June 2008, although it resembles çiğ köfte in its conception, with more numerous and exclusively non-animal ingredients, is a dish that stands on its own.

One interesting discussion on çiğ köfte involves the fact that Islam actually strongly discourages eating raw meat Fact|date=June 2008("unless there is an obligation"). The argument, as mentioned above, is that the meat in çiğ köfte is more than just cooked thanks to the extremely spicy ingredients it is mixed with.

According to lore, cigkofte was invented in Urfa at the time of prophet Ibrahim. When Nemrud collected all firewood in Urfa in order to build a monumental execution pyre, the wife of a hunter had to prepare venison raw. She mixed the meat with bulgur, herbs and spices and crushed the mixture with stone implements until it was palatable.

References

* [http://www.friendsofanatolia.org/Newsletter/newsletter_050425.html Friends of Anatolia, Issue 3, April 25, 2005]


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