Kebabs

⏳ Time

30 minutes

🥕 Ingredients

🍽️ Servings

Description

Where to buy meat We have been buying veal, beef, and pork at the Leningrad Market for 15 years. They have the best quality there. At the Dorogomilovo Market, we only buy lamb. If you like the meat, you should get to know the seller, talk to them, and find out when they are at the market. It used to be like this all over the world — people would have their own butcher and greengrocer. There is also an Armenian at the Dorogomilovo Market who sells excellent fresh fish. Once we went to him for sea bass. He had a whole tray of sea bass, but he told us, “I can’t sell it to you; it’s not quite good today.”

Ingredients

Onion - 3 heads
Lamb - 2 lbs
Fat Tail Fat - 3.5 oz
Serviceberries - 1 tablespoon
Chicken Egg - 1 piece
Ocean salt - to taste
Ground Black Pepper - to taste

Step by Step guide

Step 1

Prepare the minced meat. You can use only boneless lamb, or you can use half a kilogram of veal and half a kilogram of lamb, which must be fresh. Pass the fat tail along with the onion through a meat grinder and add barberry to the mixture. Pass the meat through the grinder twice; otherwise, the minced meat will not be sticky enough. The first time, grind only the meat; the second time, grind the meat with the mixture of fat tail, onion, and barberry.

Step 2

Add salt, pepper, pour in the beaten egg, and mix the minced meat thoroughly with your hands until it becomes sticky. Place it in the refrigerator for half an hour.

Step 3

Dipping your hands in warm water to prevent the minced meat from sticking, shape the minced meat into sausages about 10–15 cm long and thread each sausage onto a heated skewer.

Step 4

Grill over coals until cooked. A barbecue, grill, or even a campfire will work for kebabs. A good kebab is juicy, with a grayish-pink interior and a golden-brown exterior.

Step 5

Serve the kebabs immediately with thin lavash, tomato sauce, finely chopped onion, and pomegranate seeds. A timely guest places the kebabs on a piece of lavash, sprinkles them with onion and pomegranate seeds, drizzles with sauce, wraps it up, and devours it eagerly. This is the reward for punctuality.