Food Recipes

Shami Kabab is an extremely popular snack especially in India and Pakistan. A Shami is a small piece of chicken or beef or minced mutton and ground chickpeas and spices. It is basically a non-vegetarian dish that admired by all non-vegetarian people. It is very easy to cook and take very less time to get ready.

Shami Kabab Ingredients:

• Well minced Mutton:     500 gms
• Eggs                         :      2
• Onion (fully chopped) :   1 medium size
• Green chilly (fully chopped)  :   5
• Bengal Gram (channa) :    soaked overnight
• Garlic          : 10 pods
• Cumin Seed (Jeera) : 1 tsp
• Cardamoms : 4
• Cinnamon (Tuj/Dalchini) : 1 inch long piece
• Ginger (Adrak) : 1 inch long piece
• Pepper Corns (Kalimirchi) : 6
• Red Chilies : 4
• Clarified Butter (Ghee)

Method:

• First, boil all minced meat in 3 cups of water and add a teaspoonful of salt till water is absorbed and meat is tender.
• Grind meat into a fine paste.
• Next, take garlic, cumin seeds, cardamoms, ginger, cinnamon, peppercorns, soaked gram dal and red chillies and grind all of them into a fine paste.
• Then, mix both the pastes well.
• Now mix well beaten eggs and prepare uniform dough.
• Next, add finely chopped green chillies, onion to dough and mix well.
• Shape the dough into small round kababs or flattened balls.
• Heat ghee and deep fry these balls or kababs till golden brown and serve them hot with sauce or chutney.