Kufta with Tahini sauce.... Mood = Velvet dreams

The other day when my mother was still in town i went over to her house with my husband Pavlos and yet again she had made a delicous dinner. I had already eaten (what a disaster) and couldnt possibly have another bite, but Pavlos just couldn't say no. So on the table was Kufta bil Thineh. It was delicious and he had never eaten it before. His face just lit up. I knew this was to be repeated again for him.

I love this dish. It is so low maintenance and so tasty and quick. The flavour of the sharp tahini sauce with the beautiful spiced lamb mince is just such a wonderful contrast in your mouth. Its like a ivory velvet snow covering rough mountains of goodness. I love tahini. It is such a wonderful ingrediant with meat and fish and also for salad dressings. It just adds another dimension and adding a sharpness to it with lemon juice makes it divine.

This recipe is so simple i couldnt think that anyone would make a mistake, and the end result looks like you have put a lot of effort into making something that tastes so great. Thats the wonder with cooking, there are so many ingrediants you can use and they marry so well with things, that you can just keep making new things all the time with similar ingrediants. Experimenting is a wonderful thing.

Recipe:

900g lamb mince
1 onion diced
1 bunch of parsley chopped
Salt
Pepper
4 Tablespoons tahini
6 Tablespoons yoghurt
4 lemons
1/2 cup of water

Method:

• Mix the mince with diced onion and parsley, and add salt and pepper.

• Place into an oven proof tray and gently pat down, making indentations every 2 cm to create little dips.

• Do not compress the meat to tight, you dont want to have a dense texture.

• Mix the tahini and yoghurt together and add the lemon juice. It will begin to seize but dont worry it will loosen up.

• Add the water and check for taste.

• You want it to be zingy and a little runny.

• Set aside.

• Place the meat into an oven at 200 degrees for about 15 minutes and then take out of the oven. When it has browned, add the tahini mix and pour it all over the top.

• Place in the oven again for another 10-25 minutes.

• Remove and serve with green bell peppers, and chilli and arabic flat bread.

This dish will have you dreaming of the next time you will make it.Or that no one will have the last slice....

Trust me!!!!