- Prep Time
- 10 mins
- Total Time
- 30 mins
- Serves
- Serves 6
Ingredients
- 1 lb
- ground lamb
- 500 g
- 2
- eggs
- 1/2
- onion, chopped
- 2 cloves
- garlic, chopped
- 2 tbsp
- fresh mint, chopped
- 30 mL
- 1/2
- lemon, zested and juiced
- 1/4 tsp
- each salt and pepper
- 1 mL
- 6
- long bamboo skewers, soaked
- 2 tbsp
- olive oil
- 30 mL
- 6
- pita breads
Directions
Step 1
Preheat barbecue to medium-high. In a large bowl, mix lamb, eggs, onion, garlic, mint, lemon zest and juice. Season with salt and pepper. Place a sheet of foil onto grates to cover most of surface.
Step 2
Shape lamb mixture into equal sausage-shaped logs (it should make 6 koftas at 7 in./18 cm). Push a skewer through the length of each kofta, squeezing to compact around skewer.
Step 3
Brush warm foil with oil. Reduce barbecue to medium and place skewers on foil to cook, 2 to 3 min. on each of the 4 sides. Meanwhile, wrap pita in foil and place on upper rack to warm through, 1 to 2 min.
Step 4
Slide each kofta off skewer into a pita. Garnish with lettuce, tzatziki, cucumber and red pepper.
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Nutrition Facts
- Nutrition Description:
- 1/6 of the recipe
- Calories:
- 480
- Fat:
- 21 g
- Saturated Fat:
- 7 g
- Carbs:
- 55 g
- Fibre:
- 3 g
- Sugar:
- 6 g
- Cholesterol:
- 115 mg
- Protein:
- 31 g
- Sodium:
- 590 mg
