accomplishedIt was also a ton of work. We tried broiling, but that did not work. After screwing around with it for half an hour, we gave up and cooked them in the electric skillet, which worked fine. If you have a grill and are good with using it, that would probably work too. I also though of baking these as meat muffins in the future, since we have a muffin tin.
We substituted smoked paprika and a tiny bit of cayenne for the Aleppo pepper. We actually found ground chicken, but if you can't, ground turkey should work.
All we could get for yogurt was low-fat, which doesn't work very well. (Different fat levels of yogurt usually are not substitutable in recipes.) But the flavor was still excellent, especially with the kofta. This would also make a great dip or a salad dressing. It tastes like summer, bright and refreshing.
Be careful about the spices, because some of them need to be divided. It would've worked better to write the kofta ingredients and the sauce ingredients separately.
We just ate these on a plate with the yogurt sauce. I'm sure they'd be even better in pita bread with vegetables as shown in the recipe, but that's more a family-size meal. You could also use them to top a salad.
