Kofta

The meatballs are mixed by hand — ground beef, grated onion, garlic, coriander — then browned and dropped into a sauce of tomatoes cooked down with more onion. They stay soft in the center. The sauce should be deep, a little sharp, and glossy enough to need rice. Kofta is weekday food and banquet food at once; it travels well in a tray and is meant to be eaten with chalaw, not instead of it.

Ingredients

• Ground Beef
• Yellow onionin the mix and in the sauce
• Garlic
• Tomatoescooked down
• Eggsmaxied in meat marinate
• Fresh cilantro
• Oil, salt, black pepper