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I recently visited my lovely aunt, Tant Hoda, and she gave me the recipe for her amazing kofta, an Egyptian recipe for grilled ground beef. Serve this in a pita sandwich with tahina, cucumbers and tomatoes or with rice and a bit of yogurt sauce. She’s an amazing cook and was kind enough to share her recipe for kofta with me. The hardest part about making kofta is the cooking process — you’ve got to make sure that you use a grill because you want that smoky taste.

Recipe:

2 lbs. ground beef
1/4 c chopped parsley
1 medium onion, chopped finely
1/4 tsp allspice
1/2 tsp pepper
salt, to taste
barbecue sticks, soaked in water

Heat up the grill. Mix all the ingredients together. Form a golf ball-sized ball of meat in your hand and shape it around the barbecue sticks, forming a sausage-like shape. Grill the kofta, rolling it around first on the grill to grease it up from the fat of the beef, and then leave it alone for about 3 minutes on each side. Gently remove the barbecue stick at the last moment to serve.

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