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🥗 Lamb Köfte Skewers on a Refreshing Bulgur and Bean Salad

486 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 350 ml vegetable broth
• ground cumin
• salt
• 200 g instant bulgur
• 100 g snow peas
• 100 g broad beans (frozen; thawed)
• 5 g mint (1 handful)
• 50 g small red onions (1 small red onion)
• 1 clove garlic
• 1 shallot
• 10 g parsley (0.5 bunch)
• 400 g minced lamb
• 1 egg
• 20 g whole wheat breadcrumbs (2 tbsp)
• pepper
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• cayenne pepper
• 1.5 organic lemons

Instructions

1. 1. Bring the broth to a boil together with one teaspoon of cumin and a pinch of salt.
2. 2. Stir the bulgur into the boiling broth.
3. 3. Let the bulgur cook for two minutes over medium heat.
4. 4. Remove the pot from the heat and let the bulgur swell for about ten minutes.
5. 5. Wash the snow peas and remove any strings.
6. 6. Cook the snow peas together with the beans in boiling salted water for three to four minutes.
7. 7. Drain the vegetables and rinse them with cold water to stop the cooking process.
8. 8. Drain the vegetables well.
9. 9. Remove the skin from the beans if necessary.
10. 10. Wash the mint and shake it dry.
11. 11. Pluck the mint leaves from the stems.
12. 12. Finely chop a portion of the mint leaves.
13. 13. Cut the snow peas into thin strips.
14. 14. Peel the onion, the garlic, and the shallot.
15. 15. Finely chop the peeled onions, garlic, and shallot.
16. 16. Wash the parsley and shake it dry.
17. 17. Pluck the parsley leaves from the stems.
18. 18. Finely chop the parsley leaves.
19. 19. Mix the minced meat with the chopped garlic, shallot, parsley, and egg.
20. 20. Add breadcrumbs gradually until the mixture is easy to shape.
21. 21. Season the meat mixture with salt, cumin, and pepper.
22. 22. Form eight balls from the meat mixture.
23. 23. Thread the meat balls onto the wooden skewers.
24. 24. Press the balls firmly onto the skewers.
25. 25. Shape the balls on the skewers slightly into an oval shape.
26. 26. Brush the skewers with oil.
27. 27. Heat a large grill pan.
28. 28. Cook the skewers on all sides for six to eight minutes over medium heat.
29. 29. Fluff the swollen bulgur with a fork.
30. 30. Rinse a lemon under hot water.
31. 31. Squeeze half of the lemon.
32. 32. Cut the remaining half of the lemon into wedges.
33. 33. Set aside some mint leaves for decoration.
34. 34. Mix the bulgur with the chopped mint, onion, beans, and snow peas.
35. 35. Season the salad to taste with salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, cumin, and the lemon juice.
36. 36. Distribute the salad onto plates.
37. 37. Place the lamb skewers on top of the salad.
38. 38. Sprinkle the skewers with the reserved mint leaves.
39. 39. Garnish the dish with the lemon wedges.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 486
• Protein: 42 g · Fett/Fat: 9 g · Carbs: 56 g