Lamb & Kofta Kebab Plate

Turkish
~35 minutes total Serves 2

A mixed grill plate done in a single frying pan. Everything cold gets made first — salad, garlic yogurt, rice — so the last fifteen minutes are just meat and halloumi in a hot pan, in order. Rice goes down on the bread first so it catches the juices.

Meat & cheese

Rice & sauces

Salad & to serve

Method

  1. Rice. Rice on. Off the heat, fork through butter, a crushed garlic clove and 2 tbsp yogurt.

  2. Chopped salad. Dice cucumber and tomato, shred lettuce and red onion, dress with lemon, oil and salt.

  3. Garlic yogurt. Yogurt, grated garlic, lemon, salt.

  4. Chops. Salt them, then stand them on the fat edge with tongs for 2 minutes to render it. Then 2 minutes a side. Rest 5 minutes.

  5. Koftas. Into the same pan, 8–10 minutes, turning, until charred outside and 75°C through.

  6. Halloumi. Dry pan, 2 minutes a side until bronzed.

  7. Build. Warm the breads. Rice down first, then meat, halloumi, salad, both sauces.

The one thing

Rest the chops the full five minutes — longer than they spent cooking. At 150 g each there isn't much margin, and cutting straight in loses most of the juice to the board.

If the koftas came chilled rather than frozen, freeze them the day they arrive.

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