İnegöl köfte are grilled
meatballs (''köfte'') specific to
İnegöl
İnegöl (known as , ''Angelokomis'' in the Byzantine period) is a city (center of the İnegöl district) in the Bursa Province of Turkey. It has a population of 340,000 (2011 figures). İnegöl is one of the centers of the Turkish furniture indust ...
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Bursa,
Turkey
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History
The dish was invented by one Mustafa Efendi, who was born in 1842 in
Pazarcık
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Ottoman Bulgaria
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emigrated
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to İnegöl in 1892. In 1893 he began selling meatballs in his shop at the bazaar on the Ankara-Bursa road. These proved popular, and the family-run shop is still in business till the present day.
Besler Köfte 1893.
100 Tarihi Lokanta (in Turkish). Retrieved 28 March 2021
Preparation
Kneaded in a round shape, the meatballs are cooked on a grill. The fame of İnegöl meatballs has spread throughout Turkey
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. Production of İnegöl meatballs started in the 1930s and quickly spread all over the country. The most important feature of Inegol meatballs is that no seasoning is used. Each meatball is between 12 and 15 grams and round, though some places make them flat as well. İnegöl meatballs consist of veal, lamb, salt, sodium-bicarbonate and onion mixture in specific proportions. Prepared meatballs are refrigerated for 2–3 hours, then they are ready to be cooked.
See also
* Akçaabat meatballs
* Islama köfte
* Ćevapi
Ćevapi (, ), ćevapčići (formal: diminutive; , ) is a grilled dish of minced meat found traditionally in the countries of southeast Europe (the Balkans). It is considered a national dish of Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is also comm ...
* List of meatball dishes
This is a list of notable meatball dishes. A meatball is ground or minced meat rolled into a small ball, sometimes along with other ingredients, such as bread crumbs, minced onion, eggs, butter, and seasoning. Meatballs are cooked by frying, bak ...
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External links
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Kofta
Barbecue
Turkish cuisine