Where Does Kofta Come from?
Kofta Is a Family of Meatball or Meatloaf Dishes Found in South Asian, South Caucasian, Middle Eastern, Balkan, and Central Asian Cuisines. in the Simplest...
Kofta is a family of meatball or meatloaf dishes found in South Asian, South Caucasian, Middle Eastern, Balkan, and Central Asian cuisines. In the simplest form, koftas consist of balls of ground meat - usually beef, chicken, lamb or mutton, or a mixture - mixed with spices and sometimes other ingredients.
Where was kofta invented?
According to The Oxford Companion to Food, kofta appears in some of the earliest Arabic cookbooks, where it consisted of ground lamb rolled into orange-sized balls and glazed with egg yolk and saffron. They likely traveled from the Arab world along trade routes to Greece, North Africa, and Spain.
Who invented kofta?
Like the kebab, the arrival of the kofta to the subcontinent can be credited to the Turko-Afghans conquerors in the 11th century. Similar to the kebab, our desi kofta metamorphosised and became a prodigy of the mitti (soil).
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