This oriental meat dish can be prepared in various ways - in a frying pan, barbecue or grill. But most often, modern housewives in ordinary apartments bake a kebab in the oven. In addition to the classic version of lamb, there are interesting varieties of it from other types of meat.

Classic lamb kebab in the oven

The classic recipe for this treat can be called very scarce on the ingredients. It includes only fresh, quality meat and spices. You need to take: a pound of lamb with fat, 4 cloves of garlic, a mixture of zira and coriander, salt, 3 onions.

  1. Fatty mutton is passed through a meat grinder along with onions and garlic. If the meat slices are without fat, then the dish will turn out to be rather dry. All seasonings and salt to taste are immediately added to the minced meat. After thorough mixing, leave the mass in the cold for 60-70 minutes.
  2. An oiled foil is covered on a baking sheet.
  3. Minced meat clings to wooden skewers. Kebabs should be elongated oval.
  4. The blanks are stacked on foil and baked in a hot oven for 20 minutes on one side and the same amount on the reverse.
  5. Garnish with sprigs of parsley or dill.

Garnished with green onions and lemon wedges.

How to cook pork on skewers?

In order for a pork dish to be well baked, you need to set a high temperature in the oven - about 220 gr. It is better to heat it in advance, while kebabs are formed on skewers. In addition to 800 g of meat pulp, it is taken: 120 g of bacon, a bunch of fresh cilantro, 2 onions, a pinch of coriander and the same amount of ground pepper mixture, salt.

  1. The meat is thoroughly washed under running water, dried with a paper towel and first cut into thin strips, and then chopped into small pieces with a sharp knife. The smaller the cubes, the more tender the dish will turn out.
  2. Salo is also washed, and then gets rid of the skin. The product is cut into small slices, placed in a special blender bowl and turned into a homogeneous paste.
  3. Pieces of meat and grated lard are mixed.
  4. Finely chopped onion is added to the minced meat.
  5. Immediately you can pour salt, selected seasonings, finely chopped greens into the mass. Hands she is kneaded to viscosity.
  6. It is also advisable to beat off the minced meat on a hard surface. Only after that he goes to the refrigerator for about an hour.
  7. Kebabs are formed from the resulting mass on wood skewers.
  8. It remains to bake them in a preheated oven for 45 minutes, periodically turning over.

The optimal thickness of meat blanks on skewers is not more than 3 cm.

Beef kebab

For greater juiciness of minced meat, you need to add a little pork to the beef product. Also, one should not forget about a large number of seasonings. Of the ingredients you will need to prepare: 900 g of ground beef and 300 g of pork, 3 garlic cloves, a pinch of a mixture of peppers, ground nutmeg and dried basil, salt, 2 small onions.

  1. Two types of minced meat are immediately mixed, after which garlic, chopped onions, salt and all spices are added to them, passed through a press.
  2. The mass is thoroughly kneaded and sent for 50 minutes in the cold.
  3. Next, the minced meat is strung on skewers.
  4. Kebabs are put in the oiled form and sent to the hot oven for 35 minutes.

So that wood skewers do not burn during cooking, they need to be pre-soaked for an hour in cold water.

Chicken Recipe

The lowest-calorie option for the dish in question is one made from chicken. In addition to the specified meat with a skin (600 g), will be used: 2 onions, a pair of garlic cloves, small. a spoonful of liquid smoke, a pinch of ground paprika, salt.

  1. Chicken with onions and garlic turns into a homogeneous forcemeat. This can be done using a meat grinder or a special nozzle blender.
  2. Salt, ground paprika is added to the resulting mass. It is very important to beat off the stuffing. To do this, it is placed in a bag and several times from a high distance it is lowered onto a hard, solid surface.
  3. Next, the minced meat is sent to the refrigerator for half an hour.
  4. It remains to form long oblong sausages from the mass, lay them on a baking sheet, sprinkle with liquid smoke and send to bake.

Cooking kebab in the oven from chicken for 20-25 minutes at medium temperature.

Uzbek

Uzbek kebabs are prepared from the meat of young lamb. Lamb for this dish you need to take 900 g, and also: 25 g fat tail fat, salt, medium onion, clove of garlic, salt, a pinch of paprika and black pepper, a bunch of fresh cilantro. How to cook Uzbek-style kebab lyula is described below.

  1. The meat is washed with cold water, dried, gets rid of tendons and films, and then cut into pieces. It is best to use a boneless piece of the back of the ham.
  2. The meat slices turn into minced meat, after which they are mixed with fat tail fat, all spices, finely chopped onions, garlic and chopped cilantro. The mass is salted and thoroughly kneaded by hands.
  3. For 5-7 minutes, the minced meat is beaten right in the bowl, after which kebabs are formed from it on small wooden skewers. The blanks are stacked on a grid covered with oiled foil.
  4. Baked for 45 minutes in the oven.

A raw onion flavored with paprika becomes a side dish for the meat dish under discussion.

From turkey

According to this recipe, a dietary kebab is prepared. In addition to turkey (450 g fillet), you need to take: 280 ml of natural unsweetened yogurt, 2 large spoons of fat cream and the same amount of soy sauce, 3 garlic cloves, 2 small. tablespoons of lemon juice, small. a spoonful of sugar and the same amount of wheat flour, protein 1 egg, onion, salt, a handful of sesame seeds, a large spoonful of non-aromatic oil.

  1. Pieces of meat along with onions are passed through a meat grinder. Egg whipped with sugar, flour, butter and soy sauce are added to the mass.
  2. After thorough mixing, the kebabs are formed from minced meat, rolled in sesame and fried in a pan for several minutes on each side until golden brown.
  3. For the sauce, garlic, cream, yogurt, lemon juice and salt, passed through a press, are mixed.
  4. The meat preparations are stacked in a mold, poured with sauce and baked in the oven for another 15 minutes.

Served hot with any side dish.

Original Bacon Recipe

Bacon gives the dish a crisp, and, in addition, keeps all its juices inside. For cooking it is taken: a pound of minced meat from pork and chicken, 8 slices of bacon, onion, a pinch of dried cilantro and basil, salt, granulated garlic to taste.

  1. Minced meat is combined with salt, spices and grated onion on a fine grater.
  2. Next, the mass is thoroughly kneaded by hands and beaten off for a couple of minutes.
  3. Long smooth patties are formed on wooden skewers from the resulting minced meat. Each of them is gently wrapped in a slice of bacon.
  4. Kebabs are laid out on a baking sheet covered with oiled foil, and set off for half an hour in a preheated oven. During this time, they need to be flipped once.

So that the skewers do not cut the stuffing through, you need to choose thick short copies.

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