Recipe: Beef and lamb koftas in fragrant tomato sauce - The Jewish Chronicle - The Jewish Chronicle

Ingredients

• For the tomato sauce
• 3½ tbsp olive oil
• 12 large garlic cloves, peeled
• 75g tomato purée (paste)
• 25g ground cumin
• 25g sweet paprika
• 1.5kg tinned whole tomatoes, chopped
• 20g sea salt
• ½ tsp cracked black pepper
• 25g oregano sprigs
• 3 dried red chillies (optional)
• For the koftas
• 500g minced beef
• 300g minced lamb
• 150g onions, diced
• 1 bunch of flat-leaf parsley (80g) leaves and some stalk, finely chopped
• 1 coriander bunch (80g) leaves and some stalk, finely chopped
• 100g dried breadcrumbs
• 5g sea salt
• 6g ground cumin
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil, for frying
• To serve
• Steamed basmati rice or pitas and tahini