Recipes
Cevapi on Turkish Bread Roll
Cevapi are a speciality of oriental cuisine, made from minced meat and usually shaped as a small meat patty or mini sausage. They are tastiest when prepared on the BBQ, however even an ordinary pan can help create this delicious recipe. Serve on a Turkish bread roll accompanied with tomato sauce or yoghurt.
| Preparation time | 50 min |
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| Demanding |  |
| Energetic value | 462 kcal / 1931 kJ |
Ingredients
 | 6 |
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| Cevapi: | |
| 30 g | day old bread |
| 50 ml | water |
| 750 g | minced veal (or lamb) |
| 100 g | onion, chopped |
| 1 | egg |
| 1 tablespoon | Vegeta Beef Stock Powder |
| 2 | Turkish bread rolls |
| Sauce: | |
| 600 g | tomato |
| 400 g | canned tomato |
| 1 teaspoon | sugar |
| pepper | |
| 1 teaspoon | Vegeta Beef Stock Powder |
| 2 tablespoons | olive oil |
| 1 tablespoon | chopped basil |
| Serving: | |
| 400 ml | yoghurt |
Preparation
- Moisten the bread with about 50 ml water, let sit for about a minute and then squeeze out all the water.
- Place the meat in a deeper pan and add onion, egg and moistened bread. Add in the Vegeta Beef Stock Powder and mix well.
- From the mixture make cevapi shapes (either in small round, flat patties or small sausage shapes) and cook on the hot BBQ or in a pan with no oil.
- While this is cooking, prepare the tomato sauce.
- Tomato sauce: peel the tomatoes (if using fresh), remove the seeds and cut into small cubes.
- In hot oil cook the tomato, add in sugar, pepper and Vegeta Beef Stock Powder and braise for 15 minutes, until it thickens.
- Bread: warm up the bread rolls in the oven (or on a BBQ) and place on a larger plate, then top with cevapi.
Serving
Serve hot with salad and the prepared tomato sauce.
