Lentil And Bulgur Fritters With Goat Farmer Cheese

by Gabrielle Campbell

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Ingredients

140 g red lentils
150 ml orange juice
350 ml water
2 bay leaves
90 g Bulgur
80 ml olive oil
1 onion
1 tsp. sugar
4 eggs
6-8 grains of allspice, ground chili pepper powder
2-3 tsp. salt ground black pepper
1 tbsp. flour goat farmer cheese
liquid honey
fresh red chili peppers
peppermint leaves

Directions

1. Cook the lentils with the bay leaves for 15 min. in water and orange juice.

2. Peel the onion and finely dice it.

3. Glaze it with the sugar in olive oil and 1 tbsp. of water.

4. Mix onion and bulgur with the lentils and their cooking liquid and leave the mixture to soak for 1 1/2 hours.

5. Mix the flour and the eggs and add them to the lentils. Season generously with pepper, chili- and allspice powder. Divide the batter into two halves.

6. season the first half with salt and fry small fritters from 1 tsp. of batter in a hot pan with olive oil, approx. 2 min. on each side.

7. Let them drip off on kitchen paper.

8. Do the same with the second half of the batter.

9. Cream some liquid honey into the goat farmer cheese and dab a blob on each cooled fritter.

10. Decorate with finely minced chili pepper and with peppermint leaves.