It looks a bit different from the Turkish-origin kebab; it is a kind of sausage made with minced meat that can be beef, pork, lamb, or a mix.
It is eaten in a pita-type bread called Somun or Lepinja and accompanied by a sauce made from sour cream.
This dish is also widely consumed in other Balkan countries.
Ingredients for the Somun/lepinja (4 pita breads):
- 250 g wheat flour.
- 5 g Salt.
- 3 g dry baker's yeast.
- 155 g cold water.
Ingredients for Cevapi
- 800 g ground meat (mixturebeef and pork).
- 5 g Salt.
- 8 cloves of garlic.
- 5 g paprika.
- 1 egg.
- parsley.
- pepper.
- 1 onion.
Ingredients for the sauce
Method:
11- Let's start with the bread. Put the flour, salt, and yeast in a bowl and mix well.
22- Add water and mix well, Sure, once the dough is compact, knead for 5 minutes.
33- Cover the bowl with cling film and let stand for one and a half hour.
44- This is how the dough looks after the first fermentation. It should double its size; the time it takes to ferment depends on the room temperature. Ideally, it should be at 24-25 degrees, otherwise, it might need more time to ferment.
55- Divide the dough into 4 equal parts, shape them into balls, and cover them again to let them ferment for another hour.
6- Preheat the oven to 250 degrees Celsius with the fan on.
7- Flatten each ball with your hands, and make marks on the surface with a knife to create a pattern.
8- Cook in the oven for 3 minutes until you see the bread puff up. The time depends on the oven; for me, it took 10 minutes. Keep the bread covered with a cloth while we prepare the rest.
9- Since sour cream is hard to find, I’m leaving a link to my blog where I explain how to make it: Sour Cream.
Put the sour cream in a jar and add the pepper, salt, and finely chopped chives. Stir well and keep it in the fridge.
10- Combine in a bowl the egg, pepper,paprika, salt, grated garlic and parsley.
11- Add the meat and mix well.
12- Put some oil in your palms, take some ground meat to make sausages the size a finger. Put the sausages on a dish into the fridge until it is time to cook them.
13- Take a frying pan and fry the sausages, take the bread and cut in the middle as you see in the picture.
14- Add a few spoonfuls of the sauce, place the sausages in, and add the onion. If, like me, you find raw onion too strong, you can boil it in water for 15 minutes to reduce the acidity."
You can also watch the recipe at my Youtube Channel:
Here you have a link to my favourite cooking tools where you can find my spices grinder:
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