Meliz Berg served up healthy chicken koftas with garlic sauce and salad on This Morning.

The ingredients are: For the chicken köfte: 500g chicken thigh fillets, blitzed in a food processor, 1 red onion, coarsely grated / finely chopped (food processor), 1 large red romano / capia pepper, / small red bell pepper, finely chopped (food processor), 30g flat leaf parsley, finely chopped, 4 garlic cloves, finely grated, 1 tsp pul biber, 1 tsp paprika, 1 tsp black pepper, 1 tsp sea salt flakes, 1 tsp dried mint, 2tbsp Turkish Sweet Red Pepper Paste and 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil.

For the garlic sauce: 1 tsp finely grated garlic, 4 tbsp mayonnaise, 120ml runny natural yoghurt, 1 tsp extra virgin olive oil, ½ tsp finely chopped parsley, 1 tsp lemon juice, ¼ tsp dried mint, ¼ tsp pul biber, ½ tsp sea salt flakes and ¼ tsp coarse black pepper.

For the salad: 100g baby cucumbers / ¼ regular cucumber, deseeded, finely sliced, 100g cherry / baby plum /ripe salad tomatoes, finely sliced, 1 small green bell pepper, 2cm dice, 1 small red onion finely sliced, 50g fresh parsley, finely chopped, 250g leftover cooked rice / microwave rice (brown or white is fine) (make sure the rice is hot, to soak up the dressing), 1 tsp sea salt flakes, 1 tsp dried mint, 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil and 2 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice.

See recipes by Meliz in her book titled: Meliz’s Kitchen: Simple Turkish-Cypriot comfort food and fresh family feasts available from Amazon now.