Game Kofta Kebabs
Serves
4
Prep Time
25 mins
Cook Time
30 mins
Serves
4
Prep Time
25 mins
Cook Time
30 mins
Made with pheasant and partridge, our take on the popular spicy meatballs brings together the stars of wild game. Serve it as part of Middle Eastern-inspired mezze with lots of warm pitta bread, homemade hummus, and roasted aubergines, or wrap in flatbreads for an easy supper.
Ingredients
| For the koftas | |
| x2 | Pheasant breasts |
| 2x | Pheasant thighs |
| 2x | Partridge breasts |
| 10g | English mustard |
| 1tsp | Cumin |
| 1tsp | Cayenne pepper |
| 1/2tsp | Cinnamon |
| 1bsp | Fresh parsley, chopped |
| For the raita | |
| 1 tbsp | Fresh mint, chopped |
| 1 tbsp | Fresh coriander, chopped |
| 1x | Cucumber |
| 1x | Lime |
| 100g | Natural yoghurt |
| For the salsa | |
| 4x | Large ripe tomatoes |
| 100ml | Extra virgin olive oil |
| 1x | Large red onion |
| 1tbsp | Fresh coriander, chopped |
| 1x | Lime |
| 1x | Red chilli |
| Black pepper | |
| Sea salt |
Before you get started, ask your local butcher to remove all the fat from the pheasant and from the partridge breasts and put the meat through a mincer. Normally you need a fatty cut for something like kofta, but the pheasant breast contains enough fat to bind everything together.
Place the mince in a mixing bowl and add the English mustard, flat leaf parsley and spices. Mix all the ingredients together.
Roll the mixture into small sausages and leave in the fridge to set.
Once they have firmed up, fry off the koftas evenly in a touch of rapeseed oil until golden and fully cooked. Keep moving them around for a lovely, even colour, and season with salt.
Remove the seeds from the cucumber by cutting in half lengthways and running a teaspoon along the middle.
Chop the cucumber into small cubes and stir with the mint, coriander, and yoghurt. Squeeze in the juice of half the lime.
Quarter the tomatoes and remove the seeds, then chop the tomato into rough squares and place in a mixing bowl. Thinly slice the red onion and add this to the bowl.
Split the chilli in half and finely chop, removing the seeds if you don’t want the salsa too hot, and add to the bowl.
Squeeze in the juice from the remaining half lime, season with salt and pepper, mix well and sprinkle with the chopped coriander.
To serve, place a good dollop of the red onion salsa in the middle of a serving plate, arrange 3 koftas per serving around the salsa and finish with a ramekin of the raita.
Protein (100g) |
26 |
Calories (100g) |
112 |
Fat (100g) |
1 |
Cholesterol (100g) |
85 |
Selenium (100g) |
0.43 |
Protein (100g) |
27 |
Calories (100g) |
119 |
Fat (100g) |
1.2 |
Cholesterol (100g) |
66 |
Selenium (100g) |
0.37 |