This week we are here with a vegan köfte recipe for you. Fellah köfte which can compete with 80% of the kebabs in Turkey, even 100% for a vegetarian. Star of the show for this recipe is the ever versatile bulgur which is an essential ingredient in Turkish cuisine. Bulgur is a type of cracked wheat and provides an excellent base for the flavours used in a recipe, absorbing them all like a sponge and leaving a party in your mouth with every single bite. I guarantee that you won’t miss the meat with this budget friendly köfte.
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1 cup fine bulgur
½ cup boiling water
½ cup all-purpose flour
1 heaped tablespoon pepper paste
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon salt
For the sauce,
6 cloves garlic, crushed
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 heaped tablespoon tomato paste
1 heaped tablespoon pepper paste
2 good handfuls walnuts, chopped
10 sprigs parsley, chopped
5 sprigs spring onions, chopped
● Mix the bulgur and boiling water in a large bowl and cover with a plate. Let the bulgur soak the water and soften for five minutes.
● Add in the flour, pepper paste, salt and cumin.
● Knead until the mixture comes together and becomes smooth. Always wet your hands with cold water while kneading and press on the mixture with the palm of your hands.
● Pull apart small pieces from the dough, which are slightly bigger than a hazelnut and make small rounds of the mixture in your hands and don’t forget to wet your hands every time. Then make small craters in the center with your index (or little finger) finger. Shaping can take some time but if you have someone to help you it is easy and fun with some small talk or singing!
● While shaping them boil 1,5-2 L (6-8 cups) water in a large pot and add a teaspoon of salt to the water.
● Place the köftes in boiling water and cook for 10 minutes or until they float.
● It is time to make the delicious sauce while koftes are boiling.
● Heat the olive oil in a large pan on medium heat and add the half of the garlic and sauté for 30 seconds. Be careful not to burn the garlic or it becomes bitter.
● Add in the tomato and pepper paste and press with your spatula to distribute well. Sauté for a minute and add 2 ladles of cooking water from the pot while stirring
● Heat the walnuts in a pan for a couple of minutes. Just heating would do great you don’t have to toast or brown them.
● Take out the köftes with a strainer and add in the sauce.
● Add the walnuts, set aside some for topping, and the rest of the garlic. Adding raw garlic at the last minute adds another dimension of flavour and makes a huge difference in taste.
● Turn the heat off and add in the spring onions and parsley. Stir well and fellah köfte is ready to take you up to the clouds. Don’t forget to squeeze some fresh lemon juice just before eating.
● You can serve the dish as it is or there are different serving options for this beauty. It can be served on top of garlic yoghurt or add some purslane in the yoghurt and put some minced meat on top and it is a feast on its own.
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46 Comments
You should give a gluten free substitute
Any substitute for bulghr
Fantastic. I bought bulgar a long time ago and couldn’t figure out how to cook it. It seemed bland and tasteless. I’m getting a bag of bulgar from my local produce market in the next couple of days and I’ll try your recipe. Thank you for all your work 🙂
I recently discovered your channel & love it. One question about this recipe. How do you make the pepper paste please? Thanks
❤thank you 😉❤️
Thank you Refika for all your recipes. I cannot get Bulgar where I live. Can I use couscous as substitute?
Looks good as usual. Thank you 😊
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Rafika…where can i get this beautiful design of mortar and pestle?please advise. thank you in advance!
When you say mince meat, do you mean ground meat or something else?
Love your channel 💕
We make something similar called”zenkoull” and we eat it when we’re fasting before Easter. We add chickpeas and it’s quite tasty ❤
The Bulgur in light yellow color is steamed. The Bulgur in darker color is roasted. This isthe difference between them.
Another amazing recipe Refika 😘❤🤩
I love all your vegetarian recipes
Thank you for this awesome recipe! We live in Germany, so we made it as a curry coconut sauce and it was delicious!!!
Rafika, you are great. 🪷
Refika & Co., can you create a Turkish non meat type of Dolmades for us please? I love them! 🫂 all the way from Malta 🇲🇹
Love watching your channel! Hope to meet you & your team someday.
Allahina kurban senin. Harika is cikarmissin. Tebrikler 👏
Aslam o Alaikum… i want to know what is "bulgur"….? Love from Pakistan….
As a Mexican, I find a lot of ingtedients share in our kitchen, that makes Turkish cuisine so great to me, it's the same ingredients, yet a different smell, presentation, flavor. Cooking Turkish food following your recipes is a glorious adventure. Menemen was my entry recipe, I am always hungry for more, this one will be my next endeavor. Thank you for sharing this.
As always- you feed my soul and help me feed myself and my loved ones! Just purchased all the things I didn’t already have in my pantry. I can’t wait to serve this! To you, your production crew, family, and viewers, I wish you a magical day full of creativity, love, and learning. ❤
Why did you wrote that ramadan note we are not a islamic country we are secular act like that
Yummy
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This is the first time I have seen you and I subscribed. I am not vegan but eat mostly vegetarian food Thank you for a wonderful recipe.
Is this samolina ?
Another great recipe. My husband says they would be good served in lettuce leaves. I garnished with cilantro.
Refika is a really special soul. 👍😊
Wow I'm hooked to your channel 😍
Rice is a suitable substitute for bulgur. Ah, if bulgur is a grain, it's a carbohydrate?
Is this tshu kofte
Alwz enjoy on a food ride to Turkey with you….. super sharing Refika…. You are a darling….. wonder, where can I eat vegetarian Turkish delicacies when I visit … on my plan chart it’s Turkey Istanbul trip !!! Soon …. Would appreciate if you can list down few places around 🙏❤️🥰
Stay Blessed dear
I love turkish kitchen ❤
Thanks so much for the vegan recipes. I have a Turkish cookbook and most, almost all, are meat oriented, not a good book for me!
That looks so delicious 👌
What can I use in place of the pepper paste as I don’t have it and can’t get it ? I would love to try this out please . Thank you in advance for your reply . 🙏🏻
Looks so good. I have to try it.
Hi, let me know what is bugar called if anyone knew. Is it similar to semolina?
What’s in the pepper paste… we don’t have it where I live
My dear mom used to make this but with garlic yogurt and a herby tomato sauce on top as a garnish.
Konserve için farklı fikir arıyordum sanırım buzdolabı konservesi yapılır.
Thank you for this so making this tonight 😊
That's a good idea I like it
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Very well presented video, easy to follow recipe, I cooked today this dish and family love it, certainly I will cook it again. Thanks for sharing 😊