Many, seeing colorful images of delicious meat dishes on signboards or shop windows of restaurants or cafes, often do not know what is depicted there. Sometimes the big words of the calls “We invite you to taste delicious meat dishes!” cause an irresistible desire to visit such a hospitable institution. Or maybe try to cook yourself?
Lula kebab is a very famous meat dish, which is often prepared by residents of Central Asia, the Middle East and the Caucasus. Each nationality has its own secrets in making beef kebab, and in most cases lamb. To prepare this tasty and mouth-watering dish, you need to choose the meat of a young animal correctly. It must be no older than one year. And if you already have such an important ingredient as young lamb meat, then you can start cooking lamb kebab. Although another type of meat is suitable. This is a matter of individual taste.
So, we begin to prepare this national oriental dish according to the proposed recipes, which will help diversify the menu of your family table.
Beef kebab. Recipe
It is not difficult to cook this meat dish at home. To make minced meat for kebab, we need a small piece of meat tenderloin. It contains a small amount of fat, and such meat can easily be grilled in a meat grinder. Scroll it through a meat grinder and add finely chopped onions. What is the secret here? The finer you chop the onions, the juicier the minced meat will be after the onions and meat are mixed.
You can not do without the addition of spices and fragrant herbs. It is in this case that cilantro, salt and black pepper are useful.
There is another important point in making beef kebab. The recipe for the airiness of this dish is simple, but without observing it, the food will not be what you would like to see and try. Be sure to mix thoroughly and beat the minced meat. Then it turns out more viscous and gets rid of excess air. Then put the minced meat in the refrigerator for two, two and a half hours.
After cooling, we get the minced meat from the refrigerator and proceed to the formation of beef kebab. The recipe for cooking this delicious dish is that it is necessary to form small balls with minced hands with minced meat, and when sticking them on a skewer, straighten them into an oblong shape. At the edges where the skewer passes, you need to close holes tightly so that the air does not appear inside. And now the most interesting moment has come. Gently spread the skewer with kebab on the heated barbecue grill. It is necessary to turn these sausages from minced meat often so that the meat is well baked, and a brownish crust covers it on all sides evenly.
When the kebab is ready, remove it from the skewers and place it on a beautiful wide plate.
In secret, we can share a little trick, after applying which the mince for kebab turns out to be airy, crumbly and soft. Just in the manufacture of it you need to scroll the meat several times in a meat grinder with a fine grill. To make the meat even softer, soak a bun in milk and mix with meat. But this is the secret of cooking at home, it can only be used by housewives. Professional chefs do not resort to such methods of softening minced meat.
Beef kebab , the recipe of which we told you, has its own characteristics, and at the same time, it is a fairly simple cooking process. You can easily please your guests by serving this wonderful meat dish that reminds us of our favorite barbecue. After all, both that and other delicacy turn out with a smell of smoke from a fire.