Cevapcici Recipes

BOSNIAN ĆEVAPI RECIPE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine beef, lamb, and salt (plus other spices if you so desire)
• Knead the mixture with clean hands for 5 minutes
• Cover the meat with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight
• Uncover the meat and stir in minced garlic and black pepper
• Shape the mixture into small logs no longer or wider than an index finger - it is best to do this with wet hands, so the meat does not stick to you. Keep wetting your hands after each few that you roll
• Preheat your grill. Ideally, you should use a charcoal grill
• Brush the grill with some olive oil
• Grill the minced fingers on a medium heat until evenly grilled and browned on all sides
• Serve warm with Turkish flatbread and freshly chopped onion (and ajvar if you have it!)

SERBIAN CEVAPCICI

Steps:

• Preheat a grill for medium-low heat.
• In a large bowl, combine the ground pork, ground beef, ground lamb and egg white. Add the garlic, salt, baking soda, black pepper, cayenne pepper and paprika. Mix well using your hands, and form into finger length sausages about 3/4 inch thick.
• Lightly oil the grilling surface. Grill sausages until cooked through, turning as needed, about 30 minutes.

CEVAPCICI (CEVAPI) BALKAN SAUSAGE SANDWICHES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the ground pork, ground beef, ground lamb and egg white. Add the garlic, salt, baking soda, black pepper, cayenne pepper and paprika. Mix well using your hands.
• Form into finger length sausages about 3/4 inch thick. Arrange in a plate.
• Cover with plastic wrap or wax paper and refrigerate for one hour to one day, to let the flavors settle and the mixture become firm.
• Preheat the grill, medium-low heat. Lightly oil the grilling surface.
• Grill cevapcici until cooked through, turning as needed. The grilling usually takes about 30 minutes.
• Serve in warmed or grilled pita bread, white bread or rolls on a bed of chopped onions, with your choice of toppings such as kajmak, sour cream, cottage cheese, fresh peppers, ajvar or tomatoes.

TRIESTINE CEVAPCICI

Steps:

• Place beef, pork, parsley, and garlic in a large mixing bowl. Season with seasoned salt, pepper, paprika, and nutmeg. Add egg white and red wine; mix thoroughly until well blended. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes to allow flavors to blend.
• Preheat an outdoor grill for medium-high heat and lightly oil grate.
• Roll the meat mixture into sticks about 1 inch thick by 3 inches long, using less than 1/4 cup of the mixture per stick. Brush the cevapcici lightly with olive oil.
• Cook on preheated grill until browned on the outside and no longer pink on the inside, about 12 minutes.

CEVAPI WITH AJVAR

Steps:

• Place the minced beef and pork in a large bowl, then peel and crush in the 4 cloves of garlic. Sprinkle over the bicarbonate of soda and paprika, and season.
• Crack in the egg and use your hands to scrunch everything together. Add as much of the sparkling water as you need to make a smooth, pliable mixture.
• Divide the meat into 10 to 12 pieces and roll each one into a sausage shape, about 10cm long and 2cm thick. Place the cevapi on an oiled baking tray, cover with clingfilm and chill in the fridge until needed.
• For the ajvar, preheat the oven to 230ºC/450ºF/gas 8.
• Place the whole peppers and aubergines on a large roasting tray along with the unpeeled garlic bulb and roast in the oven for 30 to 40 minutes, or until the veg skins are blackened, turning halfway through.
• Place the charred peppers and aubergines in a bowl, cover with clingfilm and leave for 20 minutes, to steam off the skins. Once they've cooled slightly, pull off and discard the skins, seeds and stalks and chop the flesh on a board.
• Squeeze out the garlic from 6 of the roasted cloves and add it to the veg along with most of the parsley, then chop it all together (if you have much roasted garlic leftover, stir it into softened butter and store in the fridge - it's great for garlic bread!).
• Keep chopping everything together, season with sea salt and black pepper, squeeze over the juice of 1 of the lemons and drizzle over a good lug of oil. Adjust the seasoning to taste, then set aside.
• Finely chop the remaining parsley and tip into a bowl. Peel, finely chop and add the onion, squeeze over the juice from the remaining lemon, then mix together. Set aside.
• Just before you're ready to serve, warm your flatbreads in the oven, and preheat a griddle pan over a high heat. Add the cevapi and griddle for 10 to 12 minutes, or until cooked through.
• Spread some ajvar on top of the warm flatbreads, with a couple of cevapi and a guindilla pepper (if using) on top of each, a dollop of sour cream and the herby onions on the side.

BAKED SKINLESS SAUSAGES

Steps:

• Peel and chop garlic and onions very finely. Next, heat 1 tablespoon of oil in the skillet and sauté the onion and garlic for about 3 minutes. Remove from the heat and let cool. In the meanwhile grate the cheese, if you're using ungrated cheese like me and preheat the oven to 200°C (392 °F) with both top and bottom heat.
• In a large bowl combine ground beef, bread crumbs, salt, pepper, curry, heavy cream, grated cheese, paprika, parsley and cooled sauteed onion and garlic. Mix well with your hands. Rinse your hands, without drying them. Take a bit of the meat mixture between your hands and roll it into a sausage like shape. (SEE NOTE 2) Repeat the process until you have used up all the meat mixture. I had around 20 sausages.
• Heat the remaining oil in the same skillet that you previously used and sear your cevaps for 2 minutes on each side over medium high heat. Put the skillet in the preheated oven and bake for 15 minutes. (SEE NOTE 3) Remove the skillet from the oven and serve immediately.

CEVAPCICI

Steps:

• Combine the beef, pork, club soda, salt, garlic, pepper, baking soda and bread in a mixing bowl and mix together by hand for at least 5 to 10 minutes. Refrigerate, covered, for a few hours or up to 12 hours.
• Grab a small handful of the meat mixture and roll between your hands to form breakfast sausage-size links. Repeat with the remaining meat.
• Heat a griddle until hot. Lightly grease the griddle with some oil, and then cook the cevapcici, rolling them around occasionally, until cooked though and golden.
• To serve: Grill the cut sides of the rolls. Sandwich the cevapcici and onions in the rolls with dollops of Kajmak and avjar and serve.
• Beat together the cream cheese, feta cheese, sour cream and butter if using until fluffy.

CEVAPI OR CEVAPCICI RECIPE - CROATIAN FOOD

Steps:

• Combine: Place the ground meat in a bowl. Chop the onion very finely and grate the garlic cloves. Add to the bowl. Add the chopped parsley, all sorts of paprika, baking soda, dried breadcrumbs, water, Vegeta, salt, and pepper. Mix well with the hand mixer fitted with the dough hooks.
• Refrigerate: Cover the bowl with cling film/ plastic foil and leave to rest for 1 or 2 hours in the refrigerator.
• Shape sausages: Take portions of the meat mixture, about 50-55 g/ 1.7-1.9 oz/ ¼ cup portions, and form the cevapi. The rolls should be about as thick as your thumb and about 7-10 cm/ 3-4 inches long. I had 18 sausages. You can easily double the recipe.
• Grill the cevapcici on the hot grill pan or the barbecue for about 12-14 minutes, turning them several times in between, or until brown and cooked through. I checked by cutting one in the middle and then grilling the subsequent batches for the same time.
• Serve hot as suggested above. The cevapcici can be reheated in the oven at 180 degrees Celsius/ 350 degrees Fahrenheit for about 10 minutes or until heated through. Check one; if it is not hot enough, give the sausages a few more minutes.

ĆEVAPI

Steps:

• Grind all the ingredients.
• Make small kebabs of ground meat, about 3 to 4 inches (8-10cm) long.
• Preheat barbecue (ideally) or a grill.
• Cook cevapi for 8 minutes on one side then turn over and cook for another 6 to 8 minutes.
• Serve 5 to 8 cevapi in the lepinja with ajvar, thinly sliced onions and sour cream.

SERBIAN SAUSAGE CEVAPCICI

Steps:

• In a large bowl, thoroughly mix together all ingredients (with your hands). When well combined, put in the refrigerator (covered) for an hour, or up to overnight.
• Shape mixture into small cylinders about 1 inch in diameter and 2-3 inches long.
• Place formed sausages on a wax paper lined plate in layers (you could also freeze them at this step for making at a later time)
• Grill over medium heat, about 8 minutes on each side or until well done.
• Serve with finely chopped onions on a roll or pita

CEVAPI (GRILLED SERBIAN SAUSAGES)

Steps:

• In a large bowl mix together all ingredients.
• Using slightly over 1 Tbsp of meat mixture per sausage, shape the mixture into sausages the size and shape of a fat finger (roughly 3 inches long and ¾ of an inch in diameter).
• Place all the formed sausages in a single layer on a platter. Cover the platter and refrigerate for at least 1 hour (up to overnight).*
• When you are ready to cook your sausages, preheat your grill to medium heat, 350-400⁰F. (You should be able to hold your hand a few inches from the cooking grate for 5-7 seconds.)
• Grill the sausages using a fine grate grill pan for 4-5 minutes a side, until golden and springy.
• Serve the cevapi with sliced sweet onions and flatbread (like lepinja or pita).

SERBIAN CEVAPI

Steps:

• Combine all 3 meats with the dry ingredients and the garlic. Using your hands, mix until the dry ingredients and garlic is evenly spread into the mixture. As you are mixing, slowly add the club soda. Pour 2 ounces work into mixture and add another 2 and repeat.
• Finally add the beaten egg white and mix one more time until it is worked into the mixture. Then the shaping and storage comes inches You can shape them by hand into links about 4 inches long and 3/4 of an inch thick and let them sit for an hour in the cooler. Or you can follow the method below the cooking instructions.
• These links can be prepared on a grill cooked for about 4 to 5 mins each side or can be cooked in the oven at 350°F for 30 minutes (turned every 15 mins).
• The best way to shape the links is to take a 1/2 deep cookie pan covered with Freezer or Wax paper on the bottom and over lapping the ends with 1 to 2 inches. Then evenly spread the mixture over the inside of the pan and cover with an additional sheet of wax paper.
• Allow at least 1 hour in the fridge to cool off so the shape can hold.
• If you have a large cutting board, remove the pan from the cooler. Flip the pan over the top of the cutting board so the mixture falls out. If not, use one of the ends of the paper on the bottom of the mixture to pull it out.
• Next, take a large pizza cutter and cut downwards every 1" to 1 1/2". Then depending on the length you would like the links, you can cut across 2 or 3 ways. Cutting it across in the middle makes less links. Cutting 2 lines makes about 45 links.

CEVAPCICI

Steps:

• Heat the butter in a small frying pan and when it starts to foam add the onions and garlic. Fry, stirring occassionally, until soft, around 6 to 8 minutes. Meanwhile, mix the lamb, beef, egg and spices in a bowl. When ready, add the onion and garlic mixture. Mix well. Shape into small cylinders, approximately 1" x 2" and arrange in a plate. Cover with plastic wrap, wax paper or a towell and refrigerate for one hour to one day, to let the flavors settle and the mixture become firm. Arrange the cevapcici on skewers about 1/4" apart from each other. Grill or pan fry in medium heat until done to your preference. Serve sprinkled with chopped onions and accompanied with pita bread.