Shami Kebabs#AlphabetChallenge

This is a quick & easy method of making Shami kebabs. In this boiled dal is used since it will make this easy and cooks quickly, and the flavor because of overcooking is lost if we use uncooked dal. These kebabs are so soft and delicious.

Serves 8

Makes around 15 to 16
Ingredients
1 Tablespoon Oil
½ kg Beef Mince - can use Lamb/Mutton/Chicken
125 Grams Chana Dal - soaked
1 Inch Big Piece Ginger - roughly chopped
5 Cloves Garlic - roughly chopped
6 - 8 Whole Red Chilies - do not break them into pieces
2 Medium Onion - sliced
3 Green chilies - finely chopped
1 Teaspoon Salt
1 Cup Water 
Whole Spices
2 Cinnamon Sticks - make small pieces
10 Cloves
3 Brown Cardamoms
4 Green Cardamoms
1/2 Teaspoon Cumin Seeds
1/2 Teaspoon Black Pepper corns
1 Bay Leaf
Other Ingredients
2 Tablespoons Coriander leaves- finely chopped
2 Tablespoons Mint leaves - finely chopped
For Frying
2 Eggs - lightly beaten
Oil as required

Method

In a pressure pan add the soaked and washed chana dal and cook till the dal is done but yet firm. Drain and keep aside.

In a same pressure pan heat oil add ginger, garlic and mince fry well on medium low flame, then add all whole spices, Kashmiri red chillies, onions, green chillies, add boiled gram dal, then fry well add salt , water and cover it with a lid and let it cook till the mince is done. Open the lid and dry up all the water. The mince should be dry and free of moisture. Cool it then grind it in small mixer jar little quantity at a time till it forms a smooth paste, Take it out on to bowl now feel for any whole spices ( because the some of the spices do not grind to a paste, however much time you will grind it) remove and discard them. Mix all well taste for salt, add finely coriander leaves and mix well.

Divide this into equal portions and roll it into a ball then flatten and make slightly thick kebabs. Smoothen the edges. Like wise make all and keep aside. At this stage you can freeze them ( see notes) .
For Frying 

Heat oil in broad frying pan.
In another bowl beat eggs add and pinch of salt and red chilly powder.
Dip each kebab in egg mixture, fry till golden on medium high flame on both sides. Serve with onion, tomato rings and sprinkle of mint leaves.

These are so soft and mouth melting, handle them gently while serving. Enjoy with green chutney or Sriracha sauce.

My Notes

At this stage you can freeze ( see notes) them in a single layer in a tray when they harden then store in a airtight container.
When you want to fry them., Dip them egg and shallow fry in hot oil. ( all is cooked so fry in hot oil) Do not thaw them or else it will disintegrate when you are frying.

Labels: Alphabet Challenge, Mince, Kebabs, Appetizer, Indian, Beef, Keto, Low Carb

Let's take a look at the other Alphabet "S recipes" being shared today.....

Blogghetti: Air Fryer Sausage Balls
Culinary Cam: Buttermilk Shortcakes with Macerated Berries
Food Lust People Love: Cheesy Sausage and Egg Casserole
Karen’s Kitchen Stories: Cold Sesame Noodles
Mayuri’s Jikoni: Schezwan Sauce
Sneha’s Recipe: Shami Kebabs
A Day in the Life on the Farm: Southern Style BBQ Shrimp
Magical Ingredients: Spanakoparatha
A Messy Kitchen: Strawberry Mint Spritzers
Jolene’s Recipe Journal: Summer Squash Salad
Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice: Sweet Whiskey Skillet Teriyaki Chicken  

Stuffed Cheesy Braided Turkish Kebab Bread Rolls#BreadBakers

This stuffed braided bread recipe is filled with Turkish Spiced Kebabs is absolutely delicious and impresses both with its glossy look and delightful taste. This simple and easy to make and you can serve this mouth watering rolls as snacks at any party.

Make 2 Rolls
Ingredients
For The Dough
150 Grams All Purpose Flour
3 Grams Instant Yeast
10 Grams Caster Sugar
½ Teaspoon Sea Salt
2o Grams Butter
¼ Cup Warm Milk
Warm water to knead as required
1 Beaten Egg - Reserve 1 Tablespoon for Egg wash
Ingredients For The Stuffing
2 Turkish Spiced Chicken Kebabs
Provolone Cheese as required
1 Tablespoon Parsley Leaves
1 Tablespoon Chopped Chives
1 Tablespoon Beaten Egg - for brushing the top

Method

Knead dough with warm water and leave it aside covered till double in volume.

When the dough has risen , take on the work surface and deflate it, cut the dough into 2 equal parts. Take one part and the rest keep covered. 

Roll it into a oval disc. 

Place the cheese in center, place the kebab and sprinkle the chives and parsley on top. With a pizza cutter cut the sides in equal strips on other sides.

Fold each side so they overlap each other (like a braid). Keep going, left to right and right to left till the end. 

When reach the end, leave a tail at the bottom, just for the appearance. Grease a tray and place your bread.

Then bake in preheated oven on 190°C for 20 minutes till it browns on the top.

Right after taking out of oven, brush it with oil or butter let it rest on the wire rack for 5 minutes then cover it in a cling film so that it does not dry out.

Enjoy this yummy bread.

Labels: Breads, Stuffed Bread, Braided Bread, Chicken, Kebab, Turkey, Bread Bakers, Serves Two

#BreadBakers is a group of bread loving bakers who get together once a month to bake bread with a common ingredient or theme. You can see all our of lovely bread by following our Pinterest board right here. Links are also updated after each event on the #BreadBakers home page. We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient. If you are a food blogger and would like to join us, just send Stacy an email with your blog URL to foodlustpeoplelove@gmail.com.

This month's Bread Baker's theme is Spiced Breads.

• Ajwain Paratha from Cook with Renu
• Cinnamon Raisin Sourdough Bread from Karen's Kitchen Stories
• Ginger Earl Grey Date Sourodugh Bread from A Messy Kitchen
• Fire roasted corn fritters from Palatable Pastime
• Sourdough Chocolate Cardamom Bread from Zesty South Indian Kitchen
• Overnight Sourdough Cinnamon Waffles from Food Lust People Love
• Stuffed Cheesy Braided Turkish Kebab Bread Rolls by Sneha's Recipe 

Crispy Veg Heart Cutlet#SundayFunday

These are Restaurant Style cutlets, crisp, savory, golden, delicious and not oily. Kids as well as adults love this as snack or appetizer. There are so many ways to make them. These vegan vegetable cutlet are deep fried, you, can also shallow fry.

Ingredients
3 Boiled Potatoes - peeled & mashed
2 Medium Carrots - finely chopped
100 Grams French Beans - finely chopped
100 Grams Sweet Corn - finely chopped
50 Grams Green peas - finely chopped
1 Teaspoon Salt or to taste
1 Teaspoon Butter
1 Tablespoon Olive Oil
1Teaspoon Heaped Red Chilly Flakes
1 Teaspoon Oregano - crushed
1 Teaspoon Black Pepper Powder
½ Cup Fresh White Bread Crumbs

For The Slurry
2 -3 Tablespoon Corn Flour
2 -3 Tablespoon All Purpose Flour

Water - as required

Oil -  As Required For Deep Frying
To Serve
Tomato sauce

Method

In this cutlet recipe, I have used panko breadcrumbs to get a crispy texture. Regular breadcrumbs also work wonderfully.

In a pan heat a tablespoon each of oil and butter, then add chopped corn and green peas and high flame continuously keep stirring till all the moisture evaporates. Then add in chopped beans and carrot, and keep stirring on high flame till all the moistures evaporates and are soft. Remove this on to large plate and spread it so that it cools down completely. Once the veggies cool down then add in mashed potatoes, add in salt, chilly flakes, oregano, black pepper powder and massage them well, then add 1 tablespoon corn flour and 2 tablespoons heaped bread crumbs and mash it well till it forms a smooth ball. 

Divide this into small balls. Oil the heart shape mold and press the ball into it remove and arrange this on to a plate. Like wise make all the cutlets.  
Make a slurry of 1 tablespoon each corn flour and all purpose flour with a pinch of salt, add water little at at time to make a smooth and thin slurry.

Dip in the slurry and remove all the excess slurry, coat in bread crumbs . Make all like wise.

Heat oil in a deep frying pa and deep fry on medium high flame till golden and serve with ketchup.

Labels: Kebabs, Cutlets, Vegetarian, Starters, Appetizer, Sunday Funday, Mixed Veggies, Restaurant Style, Vegan

For our event called Sunday Funday, wherein we share recipes our families will love to enjoy on a Sunday. Our host for this week's event is Rebekah of Making Miracles and the theme is Sunday Funday Recipes Of The Heart.  

Palatable Pastime: Antipasto Salad
Food Lust People Love: Baked Nutty Truffles
Sneha’s Recipe: Crispy Veg Heart Cutlet
A Day in the Life on the Farm: Hearts of Palm and Avocado Salad
Amy’s Cooking Adventures: Heart Shaped Garlic Knots
Making Miracles: Heart Shaped Pizza Pocket
Mayuri’s Jikoni: Heart Shaped Raspberry Rolls  

Baked Chicken Fingers#BakingBloggers

These baked chicken fingers are so delicious, they are actually no dirty fingers, just mix and make. No,  breading, crumbing, mess, oil wastage or gluey fingers!

Ingredients
500 Grams Chicken Mince
1 Teaspoon Heaped Ginger Garlic paste
1 Teaspoon Cumin powder
1 Teaspoon Red Chilly powder or according to taste
3 Green chillies - finely chopped according to taste
3 Tablespoon Fresh Coriander- finely chopped
10 - 12 Mint Leave - finely chopped
1 Spring Onion / Scallion - finely chopped
1 Small Onion - finely chopped
3/4 Teaspoon level Salt or according to taste 

1 Tablespoon Lemon juice

Method 

I used breast and thigh meat to make the mince, this will make the chicken fingers juicy and soft.  

               

Add all the ingredients in chicken mince and mix well. Refrigerate for 20 to 30 minutes.

Take a kulfi/round ice cream stick, oil it and your hands lightly.

Take a ball and shape it around the stick to make long fingers. Then gently remove the fingers from the stick. Place them in oiled and foiled lined tray.

Bake them in preheated oven at 200°C , with both the elements on for 22 - 25 minutes. ( do no over cook or they will turn hard).

These are soo soooo good soft and juicy!  

Labels: Chicken, Mince, Baked, Finger food, Healthy, Kebabs, Baking Bloggers

Baking Bloggers: Ground Meats & Mince

• • Baked Chicken Fingers by Sneha’s Recipe
  • Baked Mozzarella-Stuffed Meatballs by Culinary Adventures with Camilla
  • Bierocks (German Beef & Cabbage Stuffed Rolls) by Karen's Kitchen Stories
  • Hawawshi (Egyptian Meat Stuffed Bread) by Tara’s Multicultural Table
  • Pierogi Shepherd’s Pie by A Day in the Life on the Farm
  • Tater Tot Cottage Pie (Shepherd’s Pie) by Palatable Pastime
  • Turkey Zucchini Feta Meatballs by Food Lust People Love

Surf and Turf With Shrimp and Sausage Skewers#FishFriday

This is a combo of seafood and sausage. While this marriage of surf and turf, is not new, this combo skewers is paired with Merlot, a perfect cozy dinner.

Ingredients
2 Large Cooked Pork Sausages - cut into thick slices
For the Shrimp Marination
250 Grams Jumbo Shrimps/Prawns- peeled, tails on
¼ Teaspoon Turmeric
1 Teaspoon Lemon Juice
1 Teaspoon Red chilly powder
¼ Teaspoon Garam Masala powder
¼ Teaspoon Shahjeera/Caraway seeds- coarsely ground
1 Big Clove Garlic - grated
Salt to taste
1 - 2 Tablespoons Oil

Method

Mix all the ingredients for the marination well, then add the shrimp, and toss to coat well. Leave it in the refrigerator for 15 - 20 minutes.
In the Meanwhile let's get the sausage ready
In a large saucepan bring the water to a boil. Add the sausage slice, cook over high flame for 5 minutes or till they plum. Drain and pat dry. Let cool.

Take a wooden skewer, skewer thread in the tail end of the shrimps and then tuck in the sausage and the other end of the shrimp, the sausage should be tightly tucked between the shrimp. Like the same way tuck in another shrimp and sausage. In one skewer tuck two shrimps only.
Using more skewers, repeat with the remaining shrimp and sausage till all are skewered.

Heat a grill a pan with oil and place the skewers on it and cook on high flame for exactly 3 minutes on each side ( if you cook for more time the shrimps will be rubbery and not juicy) turning once or twice, until charred spots appear. 

Serve immediately on a bed of lettuce.

How I enjoyed these skewers, took a lettuce leaf added a sausage and shrimps in it

made a parcel and enjoyed with sip of wine.

They were a perfect combo..  a tasty appetizer.

Labels: Appetizer, Amuse Bouche, Seafood/Fish, Shrimps, Prawns, Kebabs, Sausages, International Cuisine, Fish Friday

Are you a food blogger who would you like to join Fish Friday Foodies? We post and share new seafood/fish recipes on the third Friday of the month. To join our group please email Wendy at wendyklik1517 (at) gmail.com. Visit our Facebook page and Pinterest page for more wonderful fish and seafood recipe ideas  

• Culinary Adventures with Camilla is serving up Crab-Stuffed Ravioli in a Spiced Pepper Sauce + 2017 Comanche Cellars Zinfandel
• A Day in the Life on the Farm is  Exploring Malbec outside of France Paired with Pineapple Teriyaki Salmon 
• Making Miracles brings us Fish with Red Wine Sauce 
• Karen's Kitchen Stories shares  "Shrimp in Tomato and Chile Sauce" 
• Food Lust People Love has a  "Spicy Cod and Merguez Tray Bake " 
• Sneha's Recipe made Surf and Turf With Shrimp and Sausage Skewers

Chicken Donut Kebab Bagel Sandwich#Foodieextravaganza

This is a super delicious Chicken Donut Kebab Bagel Sandwich- loaded with veggies and cheese.

For the Chicken Donut Kebab
Ingredients
300 Grams Chicken Mince
1 Medium Onion - chopped
2 Medium Potatoes - peeled
2 Tablespoons Chana Dal
¼ Teaspoon Turmeric powder
1 Dried Kashmiri Red Chilly - broken into 4 pieces
2 " Piece Ginger - chopped
5 Big Clove Garlic - chopped
1 Small Egg
½ Teaspoon Garam Masala powder
4 Long Green Chilies - finely
10 - 15 Mint Leaves - chopped
3 Tablespoon Finely Chopped Coriander Leaves

A Juice of One Lemon

Method

                

In a pressure add the chopped ginger, garlic paste, salt, dal, dried red chilly, turmeric powder, onion.

Then add the chicken mince & potatoes, add a cup water. Take a whistle on high flame and then reduce the flame to low and cook for 5 - 7 minutes. Switch off the flame and let the cooker cool completely.

Open the cooker, if there is stock in the cooker 

Place it on medium high and let the stock dry off completely.
Cool, remove the potatoes and mash them with fork, or grate them and keep aside.

Take the rest of the chicken mixture and blend it the mixer jar to fine paste. Remove it into a bowl add the grated potatoes, lemon juice, garam masala, egg, green chilies, coriander & mint leaves, mix all ingredients very well. 

Refrigerate this batter for at least 2 hours. 

Shape them into a round shape, cut with doughnut cutter

Shallow or deep fry them on medium high flame ( I shallow fried them) till golden on both sides.

Drain on a kitchen towel. Serve and Enjoy.
Made Bagle Sandwich with this, for my hubby I made a veggie one but forgot to take a pic.

For the Sandwich

2 Bagels - Homemade
Mayonnaise - Homemade
2 Chicken Donut Kebabs
Lettuce Leaves
Tomato Slices
Cheese Slices
To Assemble the Sandwich 

Slice the bagle , apply mayonnaise on both sides, 

then place lettuce leaves, chicken donut kebab

tomato slices, again lettuce leaves, cheese slice.

Your Sandwich is ready!!

Enjoy!! This is a real treat and filling meal. A juicy kebab with a chewiness of the bagle..yum yum.. 
Labels: Bagels, Chicken Mince, Kebabs, Sandwiches, Lettuce, Cheese Slice, Main course, Snack ,American, International Cuisine, Foodie Extravaganza Party

For Foodie Extravaganza this month our host is Sue of https://palatablepastime.com/ wherein she asked us to prepare anything with Bagels.


Posting day is always the first Wednesday of each month. If you are a blogger and would like to join our group and blog along with us, come join our Facebook page Foodie Extravaganza. We would love to have you! If you're a spectator looking for delicious tid-bits check out our Foodie Extravaganza Pinterest Board! Looking for our previous parties? Check them out 

HERE.

• Bagels and Lox on the Casual Side by A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Chicken Donut Kebab Bagel Sandwich by Sneha's Recipe
• Everything Bagel Breakfast Casserole by Making Miracles
• Everything Bagel Seasoning & Avocado Topped Bagels by Palatable Pastime
• Marbled Rye Bagels by Karen's Kitchen Stories
• Piquant Veggie Bagel Spread by Magical Ingredients
• Stuffed Bagel Balls by Food Lust People Love
• Za'atar-Dusted Bagels by Culinary Adventures with Camilla