Kofta Mabrouma

Name: Kofta Mabrouma (Meat Rolls with Pine Nuts)
Cuisine: Syrian
Ingredients: Salt and black pepper; 4 tablespoons pine nuts; Chopped parsley and slices of lemon, to garnish; 2 eggs; 2 medium-sized onions; 1 kg (2 lb) lean lamb or beef, minced; 3 tablespoons butter or margarine

Meat Rolls with Pine Nuts

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A New Book of Middle Eastern Food

By Claudia Roden

Published 1986

About

This is a speciality of Aleppo in Syria, where it is traditionally baked in a round tray and served on a round dish, with the rolls arranged in diminishing circles.

Ingredients

2 medium-sized onions
2 eggs
1 kg (2 lb</

Asia
Syria
Main course
Gluten-free
Mediterranean

Method

Peel and grate the onions. Beat the eggs with a fork. Have the meat minced two or three times if possible, and mix it with the grated onions and eggs. Season with salt and pepper, and mix well. Knead vigorously by hand, in the old Middle Eastern style – or use a food processor to make the mixture very soft and pasty.

Flatten the meat mixture on a board or large plate into six thin recta