Young Musicians in Urfa
Who is walking in the old quarter of Şanlıurfa, may find some restaurants in historical houses, who offers a so called Urfa Night with traditional meal and livemusic program.
Once the “Urfa Night” was not only organized to have a nice evening, it was a reguarly meeting of a group of men. Every week another man had to invite his friends to have conversations and to eat together. They lent money each other for the business or helped in conflicts between families and clans.
On this meetings, which are even still held private, the men are cooking and eating a special meal, named “Çiğ Köfte”, which consists of raw ground meat from a ram, fine bulgur (boiled and pounded wheat), white and green onions, parsley and a spice mixture with a very sharp red pepper from Urfa.
To knead the ground meat by hand and to make it ready to eat without cooking, needs a lot of power. The cook throws the formed meat under the ceiling and he knows, if small pieces will not fall down, the meal is ready.
People in Urfa say, that this recipe had survived from Abraham’s time. After they hunted gazelles, they crushed the meat on stones and made raw ground meat kneaded with bulgur.
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