Kebabs That You Must Try !

What are Kebabs?

Kebabs are various cooked meat dishes, with their origins in Middle Eastern cuisine. Many variants are popular around the world. … The traditional meat for kebabs is most often mutton or lamb, but regional recipes may include beef, goat, chicken, fish

You can serve hummus, falafel, barbecue etc with chicken kebabs. Also, you can serve Some fresh cheesy salads, some fries, some grilled vegetables or any type of green chutney. All of these goes perfectly with chicken kebabs.

Kebab (also known as kebap, kabab, kebob, kabob, kibob, kebhav, kephav, qabab) is one of my favorite dishes. I generally prefer to have them with Arabic bread but at times I eat them with chappatis and rice too.

Kebab is a meat dish that originated in Persia and now is famous all over the world. There are many varieties of kebabs available. Kebab in Persian means ‘fried meat’.

Types of Kebabs

Seekh Kebab

Succulent kebabs made from tender meat, masalas and seasoning, put on a skewer and grilled golden.They are thought to have originated in Turkey when soldiers used to grill chunks of freshly hunted animals skewered on swords over open field fires. This origin is backed up by a Turkish script of Kyssa-I Yusuf in 1377 and is now the oldest known source where kebab is stated as a food item

My favorite way to do eat seekh kebabs? Slide them off the skewer and right into a piece of hot, fluffy naan. Top with yogurt-mint sauce and a little chopped cilantro and red onion and eat like the hybrid hot dog of my Mumbai-Manhattan dream’s. Seekh kebab is a type of kebab, popular in South Asia, made with spiced minced or ground meat, usually lamb, beef, or chicken, formed into cylinders on skewers and grilled. It is typically cooked on a mangal or barbecue, or in a tandoor.

Reshmi Kebab

Reshmi is an Indian word that means “silk.” This is an apt description for these silky-textured, delicious chicken kababs that are a traditional Mughlai dish prepared in India. Reshmi kabab gets its name from the juicy succulence of the meat added to the skewers.

Tikkas, also called as kebabs, are succulent chunks of meat that are marinated with different spices. … They both are quite easily differentiable as kebab is made with coarsely minced meat, while the tikka consists of larger chunks of meat, marinated and grilled till done.

Galouti Kebab

Savor it as an appetizer or snack, galouti kebab will surely add zing to any event or party. The regal treat is made of finely minced mutton and green papaya that are marinated in finely ground spices. The minced mutton is then mixed in a batter of gram flour, egg, and green chilies and then fried in oil.  The use of exotic spices and pure ghee lends it a marvelous taste and aroma.

Galouti kebab is an integral part of Awadhi cuisine and is made in the Nawabi style. It was served for the first time to the Nawab of Lucknow who due to his weak teeth wanted to relish a kebab that is soft and melts into his mouth. 

Shish Kebab

Shish kebab is a popular meal of skewered and grilled cubes of meat. … It is traditionally made of lamb but there are also versions with various kinds of meat, poultry, or fish. In Turkey, shish kebab and the vegetables served with it are grilled separately, normally not on the same skewer.

Shish kebab, dish of small pieces of lamb threaded on a skewer and cooked over an open fire. The name of the dish is derived from the Turkish şiş, a spit or skewer, and kebab, mutton or lamb.

Tunday Kebab

It is part of Awadhi cuisine. It is said to incorporate 160 spices. Ingredients include finely minced buffalo meat, plain yogurt, garam masala, grated ginger, crushed garlic, ground cardamom, powdered cloves, melted ghee, dried mint, small onions cut into rings, vinegar, sugar, lime.

Tunde is an urdu word meaning “without an arm”, hence the name Tunday Kabab. At the end of 17th Century Haji Murat Ali started a shop to sell Tunday Kababs. About 160 spices and condiments were used to prepare this Kabab. The recipe is a family secret and is passed to their next generations.

Shami Kebab

There are several etymological explanations behind the shami kebab. One explanation is that the name of the dish derives from the word shaam, which means “dinner” and “night” in Persian. It also means evening Urdu and Hindi. The name may also derive from the scent of an itr called shamama.

Shami kebab had its origin in the royal kitchens of the Mughals. Besides the Indian subcontinent, it is also popular in neighboring countries like Pakistan.

It is made of finely minced mutton and other ingredients such as green chili, red chili, black peppercorns, cumin seeds, cloves, cinnamon, coriander, and black peppercorn.

Hariyali Kebab

Hariyali chicken kabab, also popularly called the green chicken kabab is a lip-smacking appetizer which is juicy, delectable, and spicy! Boneless chicken is flavored with fresh green herbs, marinated in curd, skewered and then grilled to perfection.