Brochettes de kafta

Squeeze the onion

Put the grated onion in a clean cloth or in your hands and squeeze out as much liquid as possible; discard the liquid.

• 1 grated onion

✅ C'est prêt quand : no more liquid comes out when squeezed

Mix the meat

In a large bowl, combine both meats with the squeezed onion, most of the parsley (set aside 1 tablespoon for the salad), garlic, seven-spice, salt, pepper and mint. Mix and squeeze with your hands for about 2 minutes until the mixture feels sticky and holds together.

• 300g minced lamb
• 200g minced beef
• 1 squeezed onion
• most of the bunch, reserve 1 tbsp parsley
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 tsp seven-spice
• 1 tsp salt
• ½ tsp black pepper
• 1 tbsp mint

✅ C'est prêt quand : mixture is sticky and holds its shape when pressed

Chill

Cover the meat mixture and refrigerate for 30 minutes; cold meat is easier to shape. If using wooden skewers, soak them in water now.

• all meat mixture from step 2
• enough to cover the skewers water

✅ C'est prêt quand : meat mixture is firm and cold to the touch

Shape on skewers

Wet your hands, take a handful of the meat mixture, and press it onto a skewer into a sausage shape about 12 cm (5 in) long, slightly flattened for even cooking. Repeat to make 8 skewers.

• all meat mixture from step 2
• a little, for wetting hands water

✅ C'est prêt quand : all the mixture is shaped into 8 even skewers

Make the onion salad

Toss the sliced red onion with the sumac, a pinch of salt and the reserved tablespoon of chopped parsley.

• 1 red onion, sliced
• 1 tsp sumac
• pinch extra salt
• 1 tbsp reserved chopped parsley

✅ C'est prêt quand : onion is evenly coated with sumac

Grill

Heat a barbecue, grill, or ridged grill pan until very hot. Cook the skewers for 4-5 minutes per side, turning once, until browned outside and no longer pink in the center.

• 8 shaped kafta skewers from step 4

✅ C'est prêt quand : kafta is browned outside and reaches 71°C/160°F with no pink inside

Serve

Serve the hot skewers on warm pita bread with the onion salad and tahini sauce.

• 4 pita bread and tahini sauce
• all onion salad from step 5