Shish Kebab By bearic

Monday, May 26th, 2008

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Perfect alternate for your average burger BBQ. This dish will surely satisfy your penchant for sweet and savory meat.

Shish kebab is a dish consisting of small cubes of meat threaded on a skewer that are grilled or roasted. Different meats may be used, and fruit or vegetables are often placed on the skewer as well. Typical vegetables include eggplant, tomato, bell pepper, onions, pickles and mushrooms. Small slices of toasted bread (usually sourdough, but other breads can be used as well) are also sometimes put onto the kebab stick with the meats and vegetables. The phrase literally means ’skewered grilled-meat’ in Turkish. In Greece and Cyprus, essentially the same dish is called souvlaki and in Serbia vesalica “raznjici”.

Ingredients

• 10lb Lamb leg, boneless, fat trimmed
• 1 quart Blend oil/olive oil
• 1/2 cup Lemon juice
• 5 cloves Crushed garlic
• 4tsp Salt
• 1/2cup Cilantro
• 1 1/2tsp Pepper
• 1tsp Oregano
• 2tsp Allspice
• 1 whole Pineapple
• 3 whole Red peppers
• 1/2lb button mushroom

Procedure

1. A day before clean the fat and the connective tissue from the leg
2. Cut into 1 inch cube, keep all the same size so all of the is evenly cook
3. Combine oil, lemon juice, salt, cilantro, oregano, allspice, and garlic in the bowl and pour it over the meat. Refrigerate overnight
4. Drain the marinade, place skewers in water for an hour
5. Cut pineapple, red peppers into 1 inch cubes
6. Clean the button mushroom by cutting the steam
7. Thread each portion into skewers
8. Place skewers on grill or broiler rack and cook them moderate heat until it reach medium rare to medium
9. Serve skewers with a bed of white rice

Chef’s Notes:

In most dialects of North American English, the word kebab usually refers to shish kebab.The phrase is essentially Turkish in origin, and tradition has it that the dish was invented by medieval Turkic soldiers who used their swords to grill meat over open-field fires. However, some authorities contend that the dish has been native to the Near East since ancient times. Indeed, there exist pictures of Byzantine Greeks preparing shish kebabs, and a food described in Homer’s Odyssey also bears a close resemblance.The origin of shish kebab may lie in the short supply of cooking fuel in the Near East, which made the cooking of large foods difficult, while urban economies made it easy to obtain small cuts of meat at a butcher’s shop.