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Ćevapi

Skinless minced-meat sausages over coals, with raw onion and somun flatbread.

4 servings · 45 minutes (estimated)

Ćevapi
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Ingredients

Quantities for 4 servings.

  • 500 g Minced beef
  • 300 g Minced lamb
  • 200 g Minced pork
  • 6 clove Garlic
  • 1 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
  • 100 ml Iced water
  • 1 tsp Sweet paprika
  • 2 piece Onion to serve, finely chopped
  • 4 piece Somun flatbreads
  • to taste Kajmak or soured cream
  • to taste Salt and pepper

Method

  1. Combine all three minces with the crushed garlic, bicarbonate, paprika, salt and pepper.
  2. Work it by hand for ten minutes, adding the iced water a little at a time, until the mass turns tacky and even.
  3. Press film onto the surface and refrigerate for at least twelve hours.
  4. With wet hands roll sausages eight centimetres long and as thick as a thumb.
  5. Grill over hot coals or on a griddle three minutes a side, turning once.
  6. Split the warm somun, tuck the ćevapi inside and add a pile of raw onion and kajmak.
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