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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Middle Eastern >> Turkish

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Boil the lentils in the water, uncovered, until they soak up most of the water, about 25-30 minutes. | 2. Add the bulgar and salt. Mix once and loosely cover to let the bulgar expand, then remove from the heat and let rest on a potholder about 10 minutes to let it cool off. | 3. Heat the olive oil in a frying pan and add the chopped onion and cook until soft, about 10-15 minutes. | 4. Add the tomato paste and cook another 1-2 minutes. | 5. Add the cumin and remove pan from heat. Stir once the heat is off. | 6. Add the onion-tomato paste-cumin mixture to the pot with lentils and bulgar, which should be cool by now. Add a few shakes of cayenne pepper to heat it up if you like. | 7. Add half of your parsley (about 1-1.5 tablespoons worth), the green onions, and lemon juice to the pot, and mix well. | 8. Take pieces of the kofte out of the pot and form them into kofte shape. The same size and shape as a Twinkie works, though traditional kofte is about half the size of a Twinkie. | 9. You can then arrange the lettuce leaves on a big plate and serve that way, but the real deal way to eat them is wrapping each kofte up in a lettuce leaf. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
red lentil	1	cup		687.36	121.152	45.9072	4.1664
water	2	cups		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
bulgur	1/2	cup		239.4	53.108999999999995	8.603	0.9309999999999999
sea salt	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
olive oil	2	tablespoons		238.68	0.0	0.0	27.0
onion	1		chopped	44.0	10.274000000000001	1.21	0.11
cumin	1	teaspoon		7.875	0.929	0.374	0.4677
tomato paste	1	tablespoon		13.12	3.0256	0.6912	0.0752
lemon juice	1 -2	teaspoon		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
parsley	2 -3	tablespoons	divided	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
green onion	1/4	cup	chopped cut	4.7925	1.0188	0.1722	0.0834
lettuce leaf	7			-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.