Lentil Meatballs (Nizip Style)

Ingredients for Lentil Meatballs (Nizip Style) Recipe

• 12 tea glasses of bulgur (sumut) with meatballs
• 4 glasses of red lentils
• 10 glasses of water (for boiling the lentils)
• 6 medium onions (3 of them in oil)
• 2 heads of garlic
• Green onions
• Green garlic
• Parsley
• 4-5 tablespoons tomato paste
• Chili pepper, black pepper, salt
• Olive oil

How to Make Lentil Meatballs (Nizip Style) Recipe?

1. We wash the lentils, after washing them with water and We put the lentils in.
2. Boil the lentils until they are fully cooked.
3. Put the boiled lentils in a meatball bowl and top it up. We add bulgur for meatballs and mix it with tomato paste and close its mouth.
4. Let’s chop our other ingredients until our meatballs get wet. (onion, garlic, parsley) On the one hand, let’s put the olive oil in the stove and heat it.
5. After heating, let’s chop 3 onions and put them in the heated oil.
6. Let’s fry the onions until they turn pink. After roasting, let’s add our chili pepper and turn off the stove.
7. Then let’s put onion, garlic, black pepper together with our wet meatballs and knead until it gets a consistency. there should be a whistling sound