This meat dish is very popular in the East. And no wonder, because it, combining a ruddy golden crust and a rich juicy base, perfectly complementing any side dish. How to cook a kebab on your own at home is described below.

Classic lamb kebab

According to the classic recipe, the dish in question is prepared from the same products, but in different ways. You can bake kebab on skewers or wire rack using the barbecue, cook in the oven, or even just fry in a skillet. The composition of the recipe includes the following products: 280 g of turmeric fat, a large spoon of ground coriander and the same amount of cumin, 750 g of lamb pulp, 4 onions, a bunch of fresh dill and cilantro, salt, 6-7 garlic cloves.

  1. The lamb is washed thoroughly with cold water and cut lightly.
  2. Garlic and onions are peeled, cut into several parts.
  3. The greens are washed and finely chopped.
  4. The meat turns into minced meat along with the other products cooked in the previous steps. The resulting mass is infused in the cold for about an hour.
  5. With skewers or wooden skewers, dense kebabs are formed.

The meat is cooked in the selected way until appetizing goldenness.

On the grill at home

 

If you decide to cook kebab on the grill according to this recipe, then you can lay out the blanks on wooden skewers in a special grill or use skewers. Cooking is done on the principle of barbecue, only until cooked, the dish is aged over the coals much less time. Kebabs periodically roll over.

In the oven

It turns out very tasty kebab in the oven. To prepare the dish, you should take the grate, cover it with oiled foil and lay the meat blanks on skewers on top.

So that in any of the selected methods the wooden base does not burn, it must be soaked in advance for at least one hour in cold water.

In the pan

 

The quickest and easiest way to cook kebab is in a pan. You can just fry the meat from all sides. Turning it over from time to time.

Some housewives use long skewers, the ends of which are laid on the sides of the pan with a small amount of water. Thus, kebabs will not absorb excess fat and cook almost steamed.

Pork

This recipe option is most often chosen by modern Russian housewives. The taste of pork kebab is especially familiar to domestic gourmets. A treat is prepared from: 130 g of fat, 750 g of fat pulp, 2 large onions, 3-4 garlic cloves, a bunch of fresh herbs (basil, cilantro, coriander), salt.

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  1. Washed and dried meat, cut into large pieces, together with onions, lard, chopped herbs and garlic turns into a uniform mincemeat. To do this, you can use both a meat grinder and a special blender nozzle. Fat is necessary to make the meat more juicy and fat., but you can do without this component.
  2. The resulting mass is salted and sprinkled with spices.
  3. Stuffing is mounted on skewers in the form of thin long cutlets.
  4. The baked goods are baked in a hot oven until a crust appears.

To skewers do not chop meat, you need to choose as thick as possible their options. Serve vegetable salad at the side dish.

Beef kebab

With beef pulp, kebabs will be even more juicy, tender and satisfying. In addition to meat (750 g), you will need to prepare: a bunch of any fresh herbs, half a garlic head, 3 medium onions, spices with salt to taste, sweet Bulgarian pepper. The reader will learn how to cook beef kebab properly.

  1. The meat is ground to minced meat.
  2. Onion goes on a grated onion with the smallest divisions onion (2 pcs.) And garlic.
  3. From salted and spiced minced meat, oblong kebabs are molded on prepared skewers. The ends of the wooden base should remain free for vegetables.
  4. The remaining onions are cut into rings, and sweet peppers are cut into large bars.
  5. Vegetables are strung on the ends of skewers according to the principle of barbecue.

The meat is fried in a conventional skillet with preheated vegetable oil. Serve vegetables on the side dish.

How to cook from chicken?

If homeworkers are counting calories and are worried about being overweight, then you can make chicken kebab. The main ingredient in the dish will be diet chicken (600 g). In addition to it, it will be used: 80 g of hard cheese, 2 chicken eggs, 1-2 medium onions, 2 large tablespoons of butter, salt, 2 sweet red peppers.

  1. Peppers are completely baked in the oven to tan. It is more convenient to cook them using the grill. Softened vegetables remove the core and peel. They are finely cut.
  2. Prepared sweet pepper, grated cheese, eggs, salt, chopped onion and liquid butter are added to the minced meat. You can flavor the mass with selected seasonings. Then it should stand in the cold for at least half an hour.
  3. On skewers made of wood, ground meat is strengthened.
  4. A treat is prepared in a hot oven until an appetizing crust is formed. A few times kebabs need to be flipped.

The finished dish is laid out on lettuce leaves and sprinkled with cherry tomatoes.

From turkey

Another option of diet treats is made from turkey meat. This recipe allows you to cook a dish that is allowed even for small family members. It will include: white onion, salt, 470 g of bird fillet, 2 large soy sauce, egg white, small. a spoonful of sugar and wheat flour, a large spoonful of vegetable oil, aromatic herbs.

  1. Poultry fillet together with coarsely chopped onions turns into minced meat.
  2. The mass is salted, sprinkled with spices. There goes protein whipped with sugar, vegetable oil, flour, soy sauce.
  3. After thorough kneading of minced meat, kebabs are molded onto skewers.
  4. The billets are fried until golden in any way selected.

Especially delicious kebabs are grilled. You can serve ready-made treats with any garlic sauce.

How and with what to serve kebab?

In general, you can supplement the dish with any side dish. But it is better to combine it with all kinds of vegetable salads. A great option for a side dish for kebabs is canned green peas. In this case, the dish does not even need additional sauces.

The meat dish in question is usually served hot. Although some foodies love to cut chilled kebabs into small pieces and use them instead of sausage to form sandwiches.

It is customary to serve kebabs without skewers and skewers. Therefore, they must first be removed from a wooden or metal base, gently holding with a fork.

Oriental housewives traditionally serve meat cooked on skewers, with hot home-made pita bread or tortillas, with rings of pickled onions and any greens. From sauces it is better to choose those that are mixed on the basis of tomato paste or fresh tomatoes. Perfectly complement kebabs with tkemali sauce. It is advisable that all such additives are sharp.

 

From alcoholic beverages to the table, on which the main dish became kebab, table grape wine is served. It is better to choose red.

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