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İnegöl Meatballs
İnegöl köfte are grilled meatballs (''köfte'') specific to İnegöl, Bursa, Turkey. History The dish was invented by one Mustafa Efendi, who was born in 1842 in Pazarcık, Ottoman Bulgaria, and emigrated 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 usually cooked on a grill. The fame of İnegöl meatballs has spread throughout . Production of İnegöl meatballs started in the 1930s and quickly spread all over the country. ...
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