Tzatziki And Lamb

Two more lamb kofta recipes: Woman and Home and Stupid Easy Paleo. I didn’t have the hands to do the former, what with the frying and then broiling, but I really want to, both to cut down on cooking time and get that char. I used ideas from each recipe vis a vis the spices: smoked paprika and cinnamon (which I initially balked at but figured that it goes in garam masala so why not?) were two things I wouldn’t have thought of. I did not have onion on hand and it didn’t need it. Child approved, too.

Then I followed this Easy Tzatziki Recipe but added the inspired carrot-for-cucumber idea from this tzatziki recipe and was kind of converted; not only do cucumbers have like zero nutritional value but they aren’t things that you keep around, or at least I don’t — carrots, on the other hand . . .