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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Middle Eastern >> Turkish

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Bring a small amount of salted water to a boil, add garlic with skin on and cook for 7 minutes. Drain, slip from skins and crush with a fork. | 2. Stir yoghurt with crushed garlic, mint & freshly squeezed lemon juice until smooth, set in refrigerator. | 3. Grate English cucumber and set in a sieve, sprinkle with sea salt. Let drain 15 minutes. | 4. Squeeze out liquid from cucumber and mix with yogurt mixture. Add more sea salt and lemon to taste if needed. | 5. Bring salted water for pasta to a boil. | 6. Peel onions. Cut and chop in a food processor until a pulp. | 7. Heat olive oil over medium high, add onions and reduce heat cooking until transparent. | 8. Add 1 tbs butter, parsley and lean ground beef and cook until no more pink shows, stirring to break apart often. | 9. Add Baharat, If using Turkish skip the fresh mint or add fresh mint now. Add sea salt to taste. Cook until done. | 10. While frying the meat, cook pasta as per package directions. Drain and add lots of butter (2 tbs) & the sweet paprika. Mix. | 11. Add ground beef and mix with pasta or if preferred place pasta on serving dishes and spoon ground beef over top. Serve with Cakik (yogurt sauce) and a fresh salad. | 12. Enjoy :D. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
garlic clove	3 -4			-	-	-	-
yogurt	1	cup		149.45	11.417	8.5015	7.9625
mint	1	teaspoon	chopped	0.836	0.1598	0.0625	0.0139
lemon juice	1 1/4	1/4		4.1938	1.3153	0.0667	0.0458
english cucumber	1/4			-	-	-	-
sea salt				-	-	-	-
olive oil	2	tablespoons		238.68	0.0	0.0	27.0
onion	1			44.0	10.274000000000001	1.21	0.11
butter	3	tablespoons	divided	256.5	11.7855	8.0145	21.6
flat leaf parsley	1 1/2	1/2	minced	-	-	-	-
beef	3/4		ground lean	397.8009	0.0	78.4382	9.146
spice			mixed	-	-	-	-
mint	1 1/2	1/2	chopped needed	-	-	-	-
sea salt				-	-	-	-
pasta	170			3325.3955	481.9414	74.219	111.3285
paprika	3/4	teaspoon	sweet	4.8645	0.9313	0.2439	0.2224

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