Sea bream kubbe nia

Name: Sea bream kubbe nia
Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Ingredients: 1 sea bream, filleted and skinned (ask your fishmonger to do it); 3 tbsp boiling water; a pinch of salt; 2 tbsp bulgar wheat; juice of ½ lemon (1 tbsp); ½–1 green chilli, deseeded and chopped; 2 spring onions, chopped (green and white parts); 4 sprigs of mint, picked and chopped; 10–12 Little Gem lettuce leaves; 1 tbsp olive oil

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Honey & Co

By Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer

Published 2014

About

Will fill 10–12 Little Gem lettuce boats

This is a fish version of the lamb dish above. It is fresh and moreish and we love to serve it in Little Gem lettuce boats as a kind of posh canapé, but you can also create little balls if you prefer.

Ingredients

2 tbsp bulgar wheat
a pinch of salt
3 tbsp

Asia
Israel
Turkey
Fish course
Pescatarian
Mediterranean

Method

Start by mixing the bulgar wheat, salt and boiling water, cover and leave for 5 minutes.

Dice the bream into small cubes. Mix in all the other ingredients, but just use half the chilli to start with and taste the mixture before deciding whether you want to add the remaining half.

Place a spoonful of the mixture in each lettuce leaf and set together on a serving plate. You may wa