Grilled Lamb Kofta (Meatballs) With Scarlet Quinoa Tomato Cucumber Salad

• Koftas (Meatballs)
• 1/2 pound ground dark meat ground turkey
• 1/4 pound ground lamb
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons sesame seeds
• 2 tablespoons tahini (sesame paste)
• 2 tablespoons champagne vinegar
• 2 stalks extremely fine-diced celery
• 1 teaspoon each of cumin, oregano, and paprika
• 3 tablespoons panko style bread crumbs
• season with salt to taste
• Quinoa Salad
• the zest and juice of two lemons
• 1/2 an english cucumber finely diced
• 1 tablespoon mint, parsley, cilantro and dill
• 4 tomatoes - cut into bite size chunks (eights?)
• 2 stalks of finely diced celery
• 2 tablespoons cumin
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1 cup plain yogurt
• 1 tablespoon ground coriander
• 1 tablespoon cumin
• juice of one lemon
• 1/3 cup Olive Oil

1. Mix all the Kofta ingredients together in a bowl - cover - and refridgerate while we make the Quinoa Salad
2. I make a cup of scarlet quinoa (add 1 cup of dry scarlet quinoa grain to 1 1/4 cup boiling chicken stock) stir in the quinoa - and simmer on low heat for 15 minutes - take off heat and leave covered for 5 minutes - then fluff with a fork. and set aside to cool.
3. Mix all the diced vegetables together and the olive oil, salting and peppering to taste.
4. I put the BBQ on high heat.rnrnMake kafta meatballs with a tablespoon - and then roll your meat balls in olive oil, fresh ground pepper, sesame seed and a little ground sea salt.rnrnthese will grill very fast on the grille - literally - as you finish setting your meatballs down - immediately start turning them from where you started. MAX 1 minute on each side - then put them on a lightly oiled baking pan - and into the oven for five minutes at 350.
5. Mix the veggies and quinoa together. Add the quinoa a little at a time or it is liable to clump up. (not pretty)
6. Plate the still sizzling koftas fresh out of the oven on a bed of the scarlet quinoa salad - and garnish with the yogurt/coriander/lemon sauce.

turkey, ground lamb, egg, sesame seeds, tahini, champagne vinegar, celery, cumin, panko style bread crumbs, salt, quinoa salad, lemons, mint, tomatoes, stalks of finely diced celery, cumin, salt, plain yogurt, ground coriander, cumin, lemon, olive oil

Taken from food52.com/recipes/6244-grilled-lamb-kofta-meatballs-with-scarlet-quinoa-tomato-cucumber-salad (may not work)