Great Video! I really enjoyed watching it and I will definitly try to make these. I also like how you describe every step of the recepie. ❤

love these - pro tip: my mom makes them for me with flax seeds instead of bulgar because I cannot have gluten

By the way, lemon juice, due to the presence of vitamin C, helps to better absorb the iron from lentils, so it's all about nutrition. I love this recipe

Bro please keep uploading full videos, don't switch to all shorts. I like to watch your video so nice videos

i love that you pronounce the local ingredients in the native language! as a turkish, i feel like i'm having a constrant struggle looking for meals and recipes without meat in them but you reminded that i needn't look so far actually

That's a really cool recipe you got their. You just don't stop after you do your cooking you say the history, need and values for the recipe you have given. That's really good. I appreciate your efforts.

Such a great idea to find all the great vegan food that is already here for so long instead of all of these meat replacements. Do a book soon so we can properly support you 👍

I was introduced to you 🙋through your shorts and this is the first longer video Ive seen - love both formats! Also appreciate spreading the word that vegan about isn't eating meat substitutes, but about recipes using plant based ingredients that are delicious and nutritious in their own right! 🎉🎉

A little-known fact (outside of countries that make these patties all the time): These patties are an excellent complement to tea or coffee (instead of pastry).

Hey Turkish person here and if you ever visit Turkey you can just order Çiğ Köfte and it will be vegan since our health department banned the sale of Çiğ Köfte that has meat in it a long time ago. I don’t know of a single place that sells Çiğ Köfte with actual meat in it. So don't worry about it and just enjoy your Çiğ Köfte

This is a really nice recipe and video, I will make these soon. I really enjoy your videos and recipes. We eat çiğ köfte all the time with pomegranate sauce and lemon together, and often wrapped in a lavash, which is basically a wheat tortilla. It's delicious, one of my favourite foods. We always buy at restaurants but I will make these on my own with this recipe. In Turkiye almost all çiğ köfte (say chee kof-tay) is vegan and is made like this recipe but with only bulgur (no lentils). You'll find small çiğ köfte restaurants or stands everywhere, always vegan, there are three within a block of my house! It's delicious, one of my favourite foods. It can also be bought pre-made at the market and will also always be vegan. You'll find it made with meat in some restaurants I'm told, but honestly I've never seen it made with meat in all the years I've been here. Çiğ means raw, so the meat will be uncooked, sort of like a Turkish version of steak tartare. Don't confuse it with köfte, which you'll see on many menus, and those are cooked meatballs made with meat. It's practically the national dish, probably on every restaurant menu in Turkiye.

I had heard about this dish, but didn't find it while visiting Istambul. Probably not popular in turistic menus. Will have to make it myself😂

Couldn't be better. I came across this video and shared it with my English class😊 Perfect description, a smiling face and best recipe. Thank you for inspiring me in and my students. Wunderbar.

Thank you 🙏 I used couscous in place of fine bulgur and it turned out so yummy too !

Thank you so much for all your efforts to make great cooking accessible. I am such a fan of your work on here. Every video is produced to a really high standard and the actual recipes are exciting, achievable for the home chef, nutritious and delicious.

Us Kurds never get tired of this dish 😅, amazing effort there Herman👍😄

They look great but I'm thinking I'd spray them.with a little oil and bake them to crisp them up, then maybe drizzle with a lemon and chilli yoghirt dressing

Adorable chef!

Thanks so much for the recipe! I can’t wait to try it!

I love the history lesson at the end. Thank you!❤

Splendid presentation and content!

I like your energy and content. 😊

I literally love your videos 😅

Just made this tonight! It came out so good! Did not realize how filling it was going to be. Thank you for sharing this recipe!

wow man youre movies are a pleasure to watch!! everything looks so nice and youre explaining it perfect!

Thanks for the presentation of such a beautiful recipe. This looks really 👍 good.

Yum Yum , thank you for sharing

You make great videos. Very engaging.

This video takes me back to my childhood,in our hometown we have this ever so often,its soooooo yummy.You have done a gteat job with the recipe 👏👏👏

I gotta try this!

Delicious!

Yes = as always, wunderbar! Danke. 🌹

Thank you ❤

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Just found your channel and you upload a dish from my country. Miracle... Also most of the çiğköfte you will find in turkey is meatless, original recipe has meat but if they don't spesify by saying etli çiğköfte it is meatless

Sono sicuramente deliziosi. Sei bravissimo e simpatico. Grazie 🇮🇹

Love your vids and explanations. Something like this is just what I’ve been looking for, especially for eating smaller amounts more frequently. Thanks 🙏🏻

We make mercimek köftesi every week😊thanx from Türkiye. Please eat with nar ekşisi (pomegranate molasses😊)

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If you like mercimek köftesi i suggest you to try kısır too!! ❤❤❤ love from turkiye

Welp, I just finished yesterdays video , it was delicious. We will try this one next....thank you ❤.

GLUTEN FREE OPTION 🌱 Use millet instead of bulgar wheat. It’s almost the same texture and flavour. Thing is that millet needs boiling, so basically add the millet to the water first and boil for 5 minutes, then add the drained red lentils, then carry on for the rest of the recipe… (including that standing time when he adds the bulgar). Enjoy gluten free! 😋

I had these in Berlin, they were wonderful! I'll absolutely be making them myself!

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Inspiring! I’ve never seen this approach to lentils and couscous (what I’d call it in the uk)

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Just made this, with a few changes: Didn't have little gem lettuce, biber salçasi and pul biber, so I substituted romaine lettuce, ajvar and gochugaru (only 1,5 tsp, because it's hot and I've no idea whether pul biber is hot or not), and the result is delicious, but I think this dish would benefit immensely from a clove or two of garlic, or possibly some toum (which I'll be making next, as soon as I can get my hands on some more lemons). Thanks for a great recipe.

I am a little bit shocked you made it great congratulations 🎈🎉

It looks so yummy 🤤 Love from India.

lov your vids

Hello if you are interested in turkish naturally vegan cousine here is some meals for you: mercimek köftesi, kısır, patates salatası, zeytinyağlı biber dolması, adana usülü çöç, etsiz çiğköfte, yeşil mercimek yemeği you can search them and find their recipes❤❤❤

Really cool channel! I'm Spanish but I live in Sweden. I aim for living as 0 km, 0 waste as possible. So, I'm trying to find or create recipes with local ingredients (like hummus with yellows peas and no tahini which...well didn't turn out super perfect). Please, make a video on vegan Swedish recipes!❤

I love to get this stuff from the Cigköftem chain restaurants. They always add pomagranade molasses.

Thank you for this information. I have been totally plant-based for 5 years and my total cholesterol was 97. A few months later, I was losing my hair, had dry&rough skin, was always cold, had insomnia, was exhausted and felt awful. My cholesterol was 235 at that time. My dr brushed it off as being due to age and genetics. A naturopathic physician recommended a thyroid support supplement and it helped several of my symptoms within a few weeks.

Guten Appetit Abi, küss dein Auge! Mach weiter so!

We have a Imbiß in a shopping centre which sells these and I like them but always wondered how you make them (The Imbiß make them in front of you which is cool) Now I need to find some "biber salçası".

Your pianist fingers! ❤️🔥🤤🙈

Wouldn't that be even better when fried or baked?

I love your videos. Is there a substitute for bulgur wheat as I have gluten allergy? Thank you 😊

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The recipe is great. I will try it soon. I do have a question though. You talk in terms of grams, but I don't see you weighing anything. For those of us who weren't raised with grams, can you explain what you're doing in another way too. Thank you.

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I am Turkish. I can definitely say that 2 tablespoon of cummin is super much for this recipe. Use only 1 tablespoon.

oh man, i dont know you for long, and i am sad, i saw a cig köfte video before this one. I made them, but you have to knead them. i love to try Mercimek Köftesi not only because i like lentils, but also they don´t need kneading XD

super interested in making these, I don't have any bulgar wheat but do have a lot of coarse semolina. Could I use this, I suppose I need to be mindful of the water levels? I have a vegan nduja paste which is pepper heavy already and I think that could be an easy swap in too.

After the balls are formed is there any value is cooking baking or frying them

Hallo Hermann. Wo findet man denn all deine Rezepte? Tik Tok habe ich nicht. Hast du evtl eine Homepage mit allen Rezepten? Ich würde als erstes mit deinen Brotrezept anfangen. Wie machst du den Starter? Ich würde so gerne vieles nachkochen. Und bist du jetzt komplett vegan, oder kommen auch mal wieder ein paar Rezepte mit tierischen Produkten. Eier Milch Käse... etc Liebe Grüße

Do you have a suggestion for an alternative to the red pepper paste? That paste is difficult to get where I live. Or do you have a recipe for how to make it? Getting tomato paste is not a problem. Can I add extra tomato paste in place of the red pepper paste? Thanks.

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Koftas is not a turkish word. It was borrowed during the Ottoman empire from the south asia and it doesn't mean meatballs.

Convincing

Wohnst du in Detuschland oder u know german language ?

This idea of a "complete protein" has been so heavily advertised by special interest groups, such as the meat and dairy industries, that the average person believes he must eat meat (or at least milk and eggs if a "vegetarian") or at the very least prepare protein combinations such as grains and beans or take protein supplements in order to get enough high-quality protein. All of these beliefs are false and. in fact, may lead to practices which increase the toxicity in the body. This is an important concept in understanding protein needs: It is not necessary for all eight of the essential amino acids to be present in one food or even within one meal in order to obtain our full protein needs. As we have discussed, the body has its own amino acid pool to draw from to supply amino acids which may be missing from dietary sources. Needed amino acids may be withdrawn from those already in circulation, or the necessary amino acids may be released by the liver or other cells into the circulatory system. The amino acid pool thus acts as the supplier of the essential amino acids missing from incomplete proteins. This fact is proven by observing patients after lengthy fasts who exhibited not a protein deficiency, but a restored protein balance. Only the carnivorous animals in nature eat "complete proteins." Most of the vegetarian animals eat grass, tubers, fruits, grains, etc. and often of a limited variety. Yet they never exhibit signs of protein deficiency. In fact, protein poisoning from eating high-protein foods is far more common among Western man than is protein deficiency. The "complete protein" idea also falls apart if we realise that the amino acids in many of the so-called complete protein foods cannot even be fully used by the body. Meat as eaten, for example, is usually only the muscle meat of the animal, which is particularly low in some of the essential amino acids. The soybean has an anti-enzyme factor which blocks or inhibits the assimilation of some of its essential amino acids. Proteins which have been cooked or heated (such as meat. fish, eggs and most dairy products) may lose-up to 50% or more of their essential amino acids due to the creation of enzyme resistant linkages caused by the cooking. So we can see that many of the so-called "complete proteins" are not even completely used by the body.

I thought it fried

Full recipe link goes to picture, not recipe.

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god, can we stop calling traditional food "vegan"? they're not made as a substitute for animal products, they're just plant-based food we eat alongside animal products.

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