
Ingredients:
• 3/4 pound – mince Mutton
• 1/2 cup – onions, chopped fine
• 3 Clove Garlic large, minced
• 1 tsp – Mint dried
• 1 tsp – cumin ground
• 1/2 tsp – coriander ground
• 1/2 cup – Parsley fresh chopped
• pita bread
• Tomato chopped
• yogurt plain, non-fat preferably
• Cucumber chopped
• 1head Lettuce
• 1/4 tsp – pepper
• 1 tsp – salt
Method:
- Combine all ingredients.
- Using wet fingers and roll into balls about the size of an egg.
- Thread a skewer through each meatball and mould the mixture into a long finger shape along the skewer.
- Grill or broil gently. Be careful not to overcook so it will not be dry.
- Remove from skewers with Lebanese pita.
- Serve with, tomatoes, lettuce, yogurt on top of the Kafta as you wrap it all inside the Pita.
- To serve:
- Take soft pita bread.
- Cut a piece of bread from the Pita so that you can roll the bread around the Kafta (as in a blanket).
- Add tomatoes, cucumber, lettuce and a generous helping of yogurt on top of the Kafta and eat all together like you would eat a soft Tortilla shell.
- Enjoy this summer dish.