Kefta Hot Dogs
Kefta Hot Dogs, a sausage-free hot dog with Mediterranean flavors. For a different and comforting meal!
Preparation
20 minutes
Cooking
30
Portions
4 (8 sausages, 2 per person)
Food storage
Kefta will keep for 3 days in the fridge and can be frozen.
Recipe: Illustrated version
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Ingredients
- 375 g (3/4 lb) ground beef
- 1 small yellow onion, peeled and chopped
- 30 ml (2 tbsp) bread crumbs
- 30 ml (2 tbsp) tomato paste
- 30 ml (2 tbsp) dried parsley
- 10 ml (2 tsp) ground cumin
- 5 ml (1 tsp) de paprika
- Salt, pepper and Tabasco-style hot sauce, to taste
- 125 ml (½ cup) plain yogurt Or mayonnaise
- 1 garlic clove, peeled and minced
- 8 hot dog buns
Preparation
- Place oven rack in the middle position and preheat the oven to 200oC (400oF). Oil a baking sheet.
- In a large bowl, add the ground beef, onion, bread crumbs, tomato paste, 15 ml (1 tbsp) parsley, cumin, paprika, salt, pepper and hot sauce to taste and mix, using your hands.
- Make 8 oblong patties (shaped like kefta or sausages) and place them on the baking sheet.
- Bake for 12 minutes. Take the baking sheet out of the oven, turn the kefta and bake another 12 minutes, or until the kefta are cooked through and golden brown.
- Meanwhile, mix the plain yogurt with the remaining parsley and garlic.
- Toast the hot dog buns in a frying pan.
- Serve kefta in toasted hot dog buns and garnish with the yogurt sauce.
Variation: Serve kefta with your choice of toppings. For example, they are delicious topped with coleslaw (see our coleslaw recipe).
