chee kufta

A form of cig kofte — An Anatolian dish made from raw ground meat (often lamb or beef), bulgur, onion, tomato paste, hot red pepper paste, and urfa biber, wrapped in lettuce.

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Meanings

noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of cig kofte.

    I preferred not only Turkish pilaf but the other foods my mother's family made: […] chee kufta (raw ground lamb mixed with bulgur and eaten with chopped onions and parsley), which we ate only on the rare occasions when my father was not home because he considered it barbaric to eat raw meat.

    2016, Arlene Voski Avakian, Lion Woman's Legacy: An Armenian-American Memoir, The Feminist Press at CUNY, →ISBN
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