Theme : Çiğ Köfte Venue : Anatolia Cultural and Dialogue Centre Time : November 24, 19- 21 pm Fee : Free of Charge ACDC is going to prepare a very new and special food for its special guests. “Çiğ Köfte” has a story goes to Six Thousand years back! According to Lore (World’s one of best Encyclopedia) , Çiğ Köfte was invented in... Urfa (South eastern part of Turkey) at the time of prophet Abraham. When Nimrod (the King of the time) ordered to collect all firewood in Urfa in order to build a monumental execution pyre to take Abraham’s own life. But later on, the absence of firewood nobody could cook their food, especially meats. Because of the case, people tried to eat their food as fresh even meat without cooking. Then somebody figured out a different way to change taste of fresh meet and prepared venison raw. She mixed the meat with bulgur, herbs and spices and crushed the mixture with stone implements until it was palatable” As we are helding different special Coffee Nights in each month, we are going to demonstrate Çiğ Köfte on this month`s Coffee Night. Çiğ Köfte In Turkish , the dish is called çiğ köfte /tʃiː kʲøfte/ ‘uncooked köfte’; It is a favorite Turkish snack and a specialty of southeastern Turkey, especially Şanlıurfa 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 İsot, 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 . Although, isot is famous as the special dried pepper that is locally produced by farmers of Urfa. A favorite way of eating çiğ köfte is rolled in a Lettuce leaf, accompanied with good quantities of ayran ( yogurt mix with iced water. its popular drink) to counter-act the burning sensation that this very spicy food will give. Popular culture references and eaten
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