köfte çorbası (kofte soup)

This is hatice n baddin's favourite.. they like it because it has köfte (meatball) in it. I like to feed them coz it has vegetables n egg yolk in it. So we r all even. This way, at least i get to get some beggies into baddin!!

Here is the recipe..at least the way i do it..

Ingredients

Set A (for meatballs)

300g minced meat
1 onion (finely grated)
1 or 2 slices of bread (blended n turned into bread crumbs)
1 dessert spoons of köfte harcı (optional)
salt
pepper
olive oil (maybe 2 dessert spoons?- this is to make the kneading easier)
3/4 full of the turkish coffee cup of uncooked rice (Segenggam beras)
a bit of flour to coat

Set B (Meat stock)

The hard way
water
chunks of meat n bones
salt n pepper
onions (sliced roughly)
(u can also use celery, carrot, garni if u feel like it)

The easy way
water
meat stock cube


Set C (Vegetables n what not)
3 tomatoes (grated or blended-as u wish)
1 egg yolk
1 zuchini squash (that's the green one in the pic-diced)
1 potato (diced)
1 carrot (diced)
1 onion (diced)l
Salt n Pepper to taste
oil for cooking

Steps

Set A (The meatballs)
-Use ur hands. mixed everything until the meat
and the other ingredients r mixed together. -Knead the ingredients for at least 1o minutes. -Give them a round shape..cute small looking meatballs.
-Pls note..make it cute.. Why? Coz i like it cute heheheheeh This is my recipe, so please do as i desire. hahaha Just kidding.
-Coat the meatballs with flour lightly
-Let the meatball rest in the fridge for one hour


Set B (The meat stock)
The hard Way
-Boil everything until the meat is tender
-Strain the ingredients
-Only use the liquid for the soup

The easy way
- Boil the water
-Add the meat stock cube

Set C
-Dice n grate whatever necessary

The General cooking.
-Add in oil in the cooking pan.
-Put the diced onion in. Let it cook till soft.
-Add in the grated or the blended tomato
-Let it be like a sauce a bit. Cook around 5 to 8 minutes on slow heat.
-In another container, add the egg yolk inside the meat stock (cold). Keep stirring.
-Add the meat stock n egg yolk inside the pan containing the tomato.
-Add in everything else in Set C
-Stir everything until the soup until it boils.
-Carefully, put the cute meatballs inside the hot soup.
-Lower the heat to minimum. Cover the pan and let the soup cook until the meatballs r cooked.
- Nice eaten with bread

Reminder
-Dont hurt urself while putting the meatballs inside the pan.
-In the original recipe, zuchini squash is not added. I am adding it coz it is good to help u let go (the big toilet).This is useful esp for baddin.
-Frankly speaking, the making of meatball, the amount may not be to accurate. I never bother about how much to add in this or that in making the meatball. This is only my estimation. U have to try to estimate urself.
-Bcoz of the existence of rice n egg yolk inside the soup,it does make u full. It is almost like a meal in a soup.
-I am not sure if anyone else will like the soup but since my kids like it.. that is all that matters..
-If u dont like egg yolk, my other suggestion is (as always done in Malaysian cooking, mashed potato is used in replacement of eggs. This is just a suggestion.

Have fun trying!!