Köfte Baharat 50g
Köfte Baharat 50g
Deeply savoury and bursting with flavour, Köfte Baharat is a traditional Turkish spice blend for meat. A classic, savoury blend of chillis, garlic, cumin and allspice, it has a warm flavour and enticing aroma and is perfect for Turkish and Eastern Mediterranean dishes. Versatile and balanced, it's at home in chicken skewers, burgers, lamb kebabs, roasted veggies and soups.
In Turkey, Köfte Baharat (literally "meatball spices") is typically for seasoning lamb or beef meatballs, kebabs and burgers, and the famous dish çig köfte.
Try it stirred into yogurt for a quick and easy sauce or marinade, sprinkled over eggs for a savoury breakfast, mixed with veggies before roasting and used as a rub for grilled salmon or any other hearty fish.
Meet your new go-to blend for traditional Turkish and Eastern Mediterranean dishes and for all of your summer grilling.
Add to: Meats or vegetables before grilling or roasting. Create amazing kebabs and meatballs or bulgur mix before cooking
Further seasoning wisdom:
Our Köfte Baharat blend was made by our partner Ahmet and his family's 4th-generation spice business in the Istanbul spice bazaar.
This blend has a long, meandering culinary history, and many variations exist that use different ratios of spices.
Traditionally, the Turkish dish çiğ köfte (meaning "raw meatball") was made with ground raw meat mixed with this spice blend and hand-formed into a hand-shaped meatball, with the finger marks forming the iconic shape.
Nowadays, most çiğ köfte is typically made vegan, with bulgur wheat standing in for the meat. Some vendors and restaurants still make it in the traditional way, with raw meat, but the meat is cured with vinegar.