Volcano Meat Balls

Last week my mother- in-law came to my home.She came form the southern Turkey. And there they make local dishes like İçli Köfte.İçli Köfte is a famous dish in Turkish Cusine. Everyone in Turkey like it. It has lots of kinds.  I don’t know how to translate it’s name into English. Let me try: Semolina meatballs, Filling balls… I think I’ll find at the end of the recipe.

 Ingredients

• 2 cups of pounded wheat
• a middle size onion
• 1 tbsp pepper paste
• 1 tsp cumin
• 1,5 cups of semolina
• 2 tbsp all purpose flour
• 1 tsp salt

For filling

• 1/2 minced meat
• 125gr margarine
• 5-6 middle size onion
• 1 tsp black pepper
• 1 tsp cumin
• a pinch of red pepper

Recipe:

Put the pounded wheat in a bowl then add a cup of water in it and also put the samolina in an another bowl then again add little water on it. Wait them as they are wet. When the pounded wheat gets soften, add cumin, salt and paste then grate the onion. Knead this mixture perfectly then add the semolina and again knead this mixture perfectly.

Preparing its filling:

Melt the margarine in a pan. Put the minced meat on it and roast this minced meat in it. Mince the onions then put them on that pan and go on roasting. Roast it by adding salt, black pepper,cumin and red pepper. Turn off the button of the oven then wait it to get cold.

First of all, take a pinch of kneaded pounded wheat as big as a walnut and roll it like a ball then press your finger middle of the rolled ball and open the ball like a volcano and put your minced filling in it then close crater of the volcano with kneaded pounded wheat perfectly. Continue doing like this until it finishes.  After finishing all balls lets prepare it for servinng.

Add juice of a lemon in 1lt water then boil it. When the water boils put balls in it one by one but be careful put spaces in that water balls shouldn’t touch each other in the water. When the balls come to surface of the water it means they are ready to be eaten.

Bon appetit.

P.S.: At the end of the recipe I found what would I name for the dish: Volcano Meat Balls!