COOKING LAMBS HEARTS. COOKING CLASS IN CHICAGO. GOURMET COOKING INGREDIENTS
Cooking Lambs Hearts
The process of preparing food by heating it
Food that has been prepared in a particular way
(cook) prepare a hot meal; "My husband doesn't cook"
(cook) someone who cooks food
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The practice or skill of preparing food
a form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades
(heart) the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body; "he stood still, his heart thumping wildly"
The heart regarded as the center of a person's thoughts and emotions, esp. love or compassion
A hollow muscular organ that pumps the blood through the circulatory system by rhythmic contraction and dilation. In vertebrates there may be up to four chambers (as in humans), with two atria and two ventricles
The region of the chest above the heart
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A young sheep
Used as the epitome of meekness, gentleness, or innocence
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The flesh of such young sheep as food
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(lamb) young sheep
lamb kofta
Despite the freakishly high winds in western upstate Sunday, I grilled these lamb kebabs because I just had my heart set on making this dinner that day. Glad I did and also glad that the grill with the hot coals didn't get blown over like the huge oak tree in my parents' yard did 2.5 hours south. What a great tree. Sigh.
Lamb Kofta:
Combine 1.5 lbs ground lamb (or beef), 1 small grated onion, 1/2 cup chopped flat leaf parsley, 2 Tbsps. chopped fresh cilantro, 1/2 tsp each of cumin, nutmeg, cardamom, dried oregano and dried mint.
Chill in refrigerator 1 hour. Wet hands and form mixture into 24 oblong meatballs. Thread onto skewers with wedges of lime in between (which I forgot this time out but really, you shouldn't because grilled lime adds an otherworldly smoked citrus flavor to the dish). Place koftas on a hot grill and cook for 10-12 minutes, turning frequently. Makes12 skewers.
I usually make some kind of yogurt sauce as an accompaniment--plain yogurt with lemon juice, garlic, tahini and a dash of cumin is nice but because I made the mint/yogurt sauce for the eggplant, I just used that as a side scoop for the kofta. Do what you want, it's all good.
Adapted from "The Essential Asian Cookbook"
Ox Heart 7123
Bloke cooking evil-sounding ox heart at the Taste East food festival, Spitalfields.
This stall was run by the Saint John restaurant - a fab place for lovers of offal and 'nose to tail' eating, as they call it. Helen and I went there recently and had our first taste of sea urchin, bone marrow salad and lamb's tongues. Technically, it was the sea urchin's gonads although, fortunately, we didn't know this at the time.