Kadin Budu Recipe

These are incredibly tasty Turkish meatballs. We only have them on special occasions, because they aren't exactly health food. When I visited my Father in Turkey the first time, we went around to all of the relative's homes, and it seems like everyone served these up. The literal translation of this is "woman's thigh"; I wont speculate on why it's called this.

Ingredients

1 lb	ground beef
1/2 cup	rice,cooked and cooled
1	onion, grated and squeezed
3	eggs (1 for the meat mixture, 2 for the coating)
1/2 cup	Italian parsley chopped
1 1/2 teaspoon	ground allspice
1 teaspoon	salt
1/4 teaspoon	black pepper
1 cup	white flour for the coating
2 cups	vegetable oil for frying

Directions

Puree the onion in a food processor, or grate it by hand if you don't mind tears. Squeeze out all of the excess onion juice so that just the pulp is left.

Place the flour in a shallow bowl. Wisk 2 of the eggs in a bowl and set asside.

Mix all of the remaining ingredients together, and form into oval patties 1 to 2 inches long. Dip the patties into egg, and then into the flour, and then into egg again, and fry in a skillet until done.

These are often served luke warm.

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