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kofta

kofta

1 4.6
A spiced mix of ground meat shaped into balls or patties often served with a sauce
  • noun
  • /ˈkɔːftə/
translation icon : kofta
  • At the festival, they sold kofta wraps filled with fresh vegetables and sauce.
  • Malai Kofta

So we are going to have chicken kofta wraps.

Examples

  • For dinner, she made homemade kofta with herbs and served it with pita bread.

  • So we are going to have chicken kofta wraps.

    Emily Norris

  • - The lamb kofta is popular with Americans.

    Hotel Mumbai (2019)

  • Meat casserole, kofta, rice, chicken and chips.

  • This will be followed by the main course consisting of Malai Kofta..

    American Desi (2001)

  • I was expecting the ridiculously named durger (I feel silly just typing that word) to look more like a kofta or a Romanian sausage.

    Blog text (17)

  • "We stood in the early evening light, by the tables laden with books, food, and flowers, nibbled at kofta and borek, laughed, chatted, and introduced new friends to old...

    Blog text (21)

  • We ordered delicious spicy kofta with rice at the Middle Eastern restaurant.

Synonyms

kibbeh
vskofta
1 8.4

A Middle Eastern dish of spiced ground meat mixed with bulgur wheat shaped into balls or patties

is made from spiced ground meat without bulgur as filler
kubba
vskofta
8.9

A Middle Eastern dish that uses bulgur wheat and minced meat shaped into balls and fried or baked

is pure spiced ground meat shaped without any bulgur filler

Surface Forms

kofta singular
koftas plural

Etymology

The word kofta comes from an old Persian verb koftan, which means 'to beat' or 'to grind', and it appears as Turkish köfte and in Hindi/Urdu. So, like an English 'meatball', kofta is ground meat shaped into balls or patties, which is why it has this name.