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Kabab Biryani (Kababeesh)

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Kabab biryani is entirely my own recipe. I have used my culinary innovative skills to invent this recipe and believe me its mind blowing ….

Ayesha's Kitchen

Ingredients:

FOR KABAB:

  • 750 gms beef mincemeat
  • 1 tspn salt
  • Some red chilli powder
  • 1 bunch coriander
  • 4 green chillies
  • 2 tbspn freshly crushed ginger
  • 1 tbspn freshly crushed garlic
  • 2 onions (medium size)
  • 1 onion sliced and fried
  • 2 tbspns gram flour/ chickpea flour
  • 1 tbspn garam masala
  • 1 tbspn cracked dry coriander
  • ½ cup oil for frying

FOR BIRYANI

  • 1 onion sliced
  • 1 onion sliced and fried firm
  • 2 chopped tomatoes
  • 2 tbspns yogurt
  • recipe homemade biryani masala (1 packet of market bought biryani masala)
  • ½ cup oil
  • ½ cup chopped coriander
  • 2 green chillies slitted
  • 1 lemon sliced
  • Some cumin seeds
  • 2 cloves
  • 1 big cardamom
  • 1 green cardamom
  • A piece of cinnamon
  • 1 tspn ginger paste
  • 1 tspn garlic paste
  • 1 tspn julienne ginger
  • Few curry leaves
  • A charcoal piece
  • A piece of aluminum foil
  • 3 ½ cups basmati rice
  • Water for boiling rice (1.5 – 2 litre)

Procedure:

FOR KEBABS

-Put all the vegetables, herbs and spices in the food processor and coarsely grind them.

-Add mincemeat and gram flour and mix well.

-Take this mixture out in a mixing bowl and make seekh kababs.

-Heat oil in a frying pan and fry these kababs until they are brown an firm.

-Take them out in a plate and keep aside.

FOR BIRYANI

-Now in a deep cooking pan (non – stick preferred), heat oil and fry whole garam masala. Add ginger, garlic paste and ginger juliennes and stir. Add onions and fry them until they are golden brown. Now add kebabs, tomatoes, biryani masala and yogurt. Stir once and then cook on low flame until the masala is formed.

-Now boil water and add soaked rice. Boil until the rice are ¾ % cooked.

-Strain, discard water and keep the boiled rice aside.

-Divide boiled rice and kabab rice in 3 portions.

-Meanwhile heat charcoal piece until its white and keep burning until it’s the time to use it.

-Now in a deep cooking vessel, heat some oil and add curry leaves and green chillies, when they begin to splatter add one portion of kabab masala and spread a layer of one portion of boiled rice. Repeat the process until all the portions of kabab masala and rice are done. Make sure the rice is the last layer.

-Sprinkle coriander leaves, fried onion, lemon slices and yellow food colour. Now place the aluminum foil on it and burning charcoal on the aluminum foil. Drizzle some oil on charcoal and immediately cover the pot. Remove from flame and keep it covered for 15 minutes.

-Remove charcoal and aluminum and serve.

-Serve hot with salad and raita.

Tips:

For fried onions, heat ½ cup oil and fry onion slices until they are brown and firm. Drain oil thoroughly.

Chappal Kabab

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Chappal kabab is a North Pakistani dish which is very famous all over Pakistan. This dish is full of flavors and aromas. Try this recipe as it is the best and the easiest recipe of this wonderful dish you can ever think of….

Ayesha's Kitchen

Ingredients:

  • 1 kg mincemeat Beef/ chicken/ Lamb
  • ½ kg fat (Charbi) (ground)
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 tbspn red chilli flakes/ powder
  • 1 tbspn crushed pomegranate seed
  • 2 eggs omelette (Scrambled or chopped)
  • 2 tbspns chopped green coriander
  • 1 tbspn chopped mint
  • 1 tbspn cracked dry coriander
  • 2 onions chopped in food processor
  • 4 – 8 green chillies chopped fine
  • 1 tomato (deseeded and chopped fine)
  • 1 tbspn butter (soft)
  • 1 tspn gram flour (besan)
  • 1 tbspn garam masala
  • 1 tspn chopped
  • 1 tspn chopped garlic

FOR FRYING

  • Oil for shallow frying
  • Tomato slices
  • Some lose corn flour

Procedure:

-Combine all the ingredients given above for kabab mixture and mix well.

-Heat oil in a skillet sort of frying pan.

-Now, with wet hands take some mincemeat and press it in a way that they are 0.5 cm thick and spread all over your finger area. Dust it with some corn flour and place one tomato slice it in the middle of the kabab and press.

-Fry until it is cooked.

-Take it out in a serving dish and serve hot with Kandhari naan and mint sauce.

-Do the same with remaining mincemeat.

-Delicious homemade Chappal kababs are ready.

Tips:

-Finely chop omelette and make sure you don’t add any seasoning to this omelette.

Servings:

This will make 6 – 8 chappal kababs.

Namak Gosht

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Namak gosht is entrely a Pakistani delicacy which is not so famous but people who know about it, love it,…. it is cooked with green chilli paste and black pepper without tomatoes and red chilli powder, try it, love it and comment it …

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Ingredients:

  • 3 tbspns green papaya paste
  • 1 kg goat meat
  • 2 large onions
  • 1 tbspn garam masala
  • 1 tspn coriander powder
  • 4 green chillies (crushed)
  • 4 green chillies julienne
  • Some chopped cilantro leaves
  • 1 tspn mint paste
  • 1 cup oil
  • 1tspn nigella seed powder
  • 1 tbspn cracked black pepper
  • Some whole garam masala (1 cardamom, a pinch of fenugreek seeds, 2 cloves, a big piece of cinnamon stick, few cumin seeds)’
  • 1tspn ginger paste
  • Some ginger julienne (for garnish)
  • Some salt
  • 2 cups yogurt
  • 1 tspn turmeric

Procedure:

IF COOKING MEAT DRECTLY IN MASALA

-Marinate the meat with papaya paste if you are going to cook the meat directly in masala.

-Heat oil in a pan and fry onions, ginger paste and whole garam masala in it for 5 minutes. Now add marinated goat meat and fry for 5 – 6 minutes until the meat starts changing its color. When the moisture evaporates, add yogurt and other spices and coo well.

-Cook it covered on low heat for 30 minutes or until its well-cooked and the oil comes up to the masala surface.

-Add green chilllies, coriander and ginger and serve hot with naan.

IF COOKING MEAT AFTER BOILING

-In a deep pan add everything except, green chillies, ginger and cilantro and boil in 3 cups of water until the meat is well-cooked and masala is formed. Now add yogurt and roast the meat. Cook on low heat until it is done.

-Now stir and simmer.

-Add garnishing material and serve hot. (The taste is just the same)

IF COOKING IN PRESSURE COOKER

-In a pressure cooker heat oil and fry onions, whole garam masala and ginger paste for 5 – 10 minutes or until the onions are lightly brown. Add meat and stir fry. When the moisture evaporates, add yogurt and other spices and give it pressure for 30 minutes on low medium heat.

-Now very carefully open the lid and stir and simmer. Add some water if needed.

-Now add garnishing material and serve hot with nan or tandoori roti.

Kofta Skewers (Turkish)

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Kofta Skewers is a Turkish dish which is mild and prepared with moist beef mince, try this and make your day …

Ayesha's Kitchen

Ingredients:

  • ½ kg beef mincemeat (with lots of fat)
  • 1 onion
  • 2 red chillies (big ones)
  • Some salt
  • 2 spring onions
  • 3 – 4 tbspns chopped mint
  • 3 – 4 tbspns chopped parsley
  • 1 tspn cracked black pepper
  • 1 ½ tspn red chilli flaes
  • Some olive oil (for glazing)
  • 1tbspn tomato paste
  • 1 tbspn yogurt

Procedure:

-Chop onion and red chilllies and add all other ingredients to it. Mix well and keep aside for 2 hours.

-On wooden or steel skewers thread a big amount of mincemeat on its one end and grill and on a preheated BBQ until it is well done.

-Now serve it on skewer in a plate with some greek salad and tzatziki dip.

 

Keema* Koyla* (Coal Tempered Mincemeat)

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Coal tempered mincemeat is barbecue flavoured mincemeat which is usually served with chapattis, parathas or naan bread in Pakistani. It is one of the famous dishes of Pakistan, people usually serve it on small get togethers and parties …

Ingredients:

  • ½ kg mincemeat (goat/ chicken/ lamb/ beef)
  • An onion chopped
  • A tomato chopped
  • 2 green chillies slitted
  • 4 green chillies sliced lengthways (OPTIONAL)
  • ½ bunch coriander
  • Some ginger julienne
  • ¼ cup water
  • ¼ cup oil
  • ¼ tspn ginger garlic paste
  • Few cumin seeds
  • 1 tspn red chilli powder
  • ¼ tspn turmeric
  • Some salt to taste
  • ½ tspn garam masala

Procedure:

-Heat oil and stir fry onions until they are golden brown. Add ginger garlic paste and tomato. Cook well on low heat. When tomatoes lose their stiffness add mincemeat and fry for a minute. Add water and all the spices and cook it covered on medium heat.

-After 10 – 15 minutes, when very less amount of water remains, place a big piece of onion or some dry paper and place hot coal on it. Pour some oil over it and immediately cover your dish.

-Remove from flame and keep it covered for 10 minutes.

-Remove coal and paper/ onion.

-Stir in some coriander and green chillies, scoop and serve hot with daal and chapattis.

Outcome:

Tasty coal tempered barbecue taste mincemeat is ready.

Tips:

–Use non-stick pan.

Servings:

This will serve 2 – 4 persons easily.

Narigisi Kofta

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Nargisi Kofta is a famous delicacy of Pakistan, women over there used to do these kind of experiments but this was one of their successful inventions, people appreciated it and now this dish is often served on weddings or other occasions, do try them and let me know your remarks, if you cant understand anything please ask me, email me (About page) …

Ingredients:

FOR KOFTAS

  • ½ kg chicken/lamb/ beef mincemeat
  • Some salt
  • ¼ tspn turmeric powder
  • 4 – 8 dried red chillies (even 12 if you want really spicy)
  • 1 tbspn dried coriander whole
  • A small (1 cm) pc. Of cinnamon stick
  • ½ tspn nigella seeds
  • ¼ tspn carom seeds
  • 1 green cardamom pod
  • A pinch of garam masala powder
  • 4 – 6 hard boiled eggs
  • Oil for frying

FOR CURRY

  • ¼ cup oil
  • An onion chopped
  • A tomato chopped
  • ½ lemon squeezed
  • Salt to taste (keep in mind, meatballs also have salt in them)
  • ½ tspn red chilli powder
  • 1 dried red chilli
  • 1 lemon squeezed
  • ½ tspn funnel seeds (saunf) (powdered)
  • ¼ tspn nigella seeds
  • ½ tspn cumin seeds
  • 2 – 4 dried curry leaves
  • 1 big green chilli shopped
  • Few coriander leaves chopped
  • ¼ tspn methi dana
  • ½ tspn dry whole coriander
  • 2 – 4 cracked black peppercorns
  • Some water
  • 3 tbspns yogurt

Procedure:

-Combine all the dry spices given for meatballs in a spice blender and make a fine powder.

-Add this powder to mincemeat and mix well, use food processor if needed.

-Now very carefully, take some mincemeat and make it into egg sized balls. Now coat this mincemeat around boiled egg and deep fry in hot oil.

-When its golden brown in colour take it out and keep aside.

-Do the same with the remaining eggs and mincemeat.

-Now for curry, heat oil and add curry leaves, cumin seeds, cracked coriander and dried red chilli. When they begin to splatter add onions. Cook for some time and then add all the spices except nigella seeds, saunf and methi dana.

-Blend nigella seeds, saunf and methi dana in spice blender to make fine powder. Keep it aside.

-Now add tomatoes in the curry and mix well until they lose their stiffness, cook them on low heat.

-Now add water and let it simmer. Add yogurt, powdered masala and lemon juice and let it simmer for some time. Add fried koftas and with a spoon pour over the gravy on it.

-Cook on low heat for 2 minutes and then garnish with coriander leaves and green chillies and serve hot with chapattis.

Outcome:

Tasty nargisi koftas are ready to serve.

Ayesha's Kitchen

Ayesha's Kitchen

Tips:

-I like these koftas with simmered curry, if you want to make a bit gravy kind of thing, add 1 cup of water.

-Adjust salt and pepper according to your will.

Servings:

This will serve 3 – 4 persons easily.