Rory’s Bus Station Kefta

If you ever had to hang around a bus station in Tunisia or Morocco then you will almost certainly come across this dish… In fact these are the only places I have seen it.

This is unashamedly a dish that if you snooze, you loose – you stick this on the table in front of some hungry mates and some good sour dough bread……forget about it!!

Instructions

Step 1

All the ingredients you need.

Step 2

Run a sharp knife through the onion and dice it as fine as you can.

Step 3

Season the minced lamb with salt and pepper then in a big bowl combine it with 1 egg, 1 tbs Ras el Hanout, garlic salt, chili flakes and the diced onion.

Step 4

Time to get messy and there ain’t an alternative to this – just gets your mitts in the mince and literally squash everything together.

Step 5

This is the single most important bit, pull out a piece of the kefta mix and fry it…this will be your one and only opportunity to get the seasoning and flavours right… Unless you like eating raw mince.

Step 6

Now to make the keftas – pull a lump of the mix together in your hand and roll into a ball jut bigger than a golf ball – from 2lb lamb you should get about 9 balls.