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Dishes roasted or grilled on skewers or spits.

Kebab often refers to meat, but in general could be any grillable food cooked on a skewer or spit, whether on a grill, over open flame, or another high heat source.

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How can this kebab have so much protein and so little fat?

All my life I've been told that kebab (the meat, not the dish) is high-fat. However, I was in the market the other day, and I found the following pack of frozen kebab. Below is a picture from that market's website. You can see that it's got 166kcal…
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What are the best type of skewers to use for ground meat kebabs?

We like to make ground meat kebabs. I usually use all ground lamb, but occasionally will use a mixture of lamb and beef or lamb and bison. I have tried wooden skewers (both small and large) and metal skewers (both round and small flat). (Sizes…
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Kebab cooking rules

What are rules about cooking lamb and chicken doner kebab? How many times can the spit be put in the fridge, then cooked again the next day? I have been to a kebab shop where the cook put a huge lamb vertical doner spit in front of the grill,…
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Stretchy Lebanese flatbread?

When I used to get donor kebabs in Brisbane, Australia, the store I would frequent would serve them in a particular stretchy flatbread, who the store owner told me was a type of bread from lebabnon. The distinguisihing features I noticed were the…
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Do metal skewers make a considerable different cooking time than wooden?

When making kebabs I usually use the metal re-usable skewers. However do they differ at all than their wooden counterparts? Dishes are fun to do but only if the meal is good.
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How to make a Lamb Seekh Kebab more juicy and soft?

What are some secret ingredients used to make a Lamb Seekh Kebab so soft and juicy? These is one of the best kebab to taste.
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How to make meatball style food that keeps its shape

How to preserve shape of meatballs and mince-meat shami kebabs? What ingredients help these items keep their shape? We tried chicpea flour, eggs but the bodies do not keep their shape but some chefs make it so solid that you can literally throw it…
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Chicken kebab turned hard

The chicken kebab which I cooked today was tastier. I had marinated it overnight with salt, tumeric, chilli powder, garam marsala, curd, lemon juice, ginger garlic paste and kebab marsala. After frying it turned out hard. The one we get in hotels…
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What is the yellow colour and what ingredients go into seekh kebabs fat?

When grilling seekh kebab fat drips I notice it's yellow colour. If you grill plain mince or meat it's usually white colour so it must mean some ingredients are getting imparted into the seekh kebabs fat to give it that colour. I really like the…
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Just found this in my donner kebab, can you identify what it is?

I was just eating a donner kebab, not sure if it’s something to be alarmed about ( looks like a worm to me ) or if it’s just spice that is tricking me. It’s about 2/3mm across and is very hard. I can’t see anything moving... yet [grin] Thank you…
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Which of these ingredients are the acid component of a marinade?

Here are some ingredients for a a sheek kebab recipe. Which of these acts as the acid component of the marinade? onion, lentil flour, green chilli, salt, garlic, ginger, herbs: fenugreek, fresh coriander, spices: cumin seed,coriander podwer,…
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What sort of kebab is used with Chellow Kebab?

I came across the following picture in wikipedia the entire serving was being called Chellow Kebab without separately naming the Kebab Variety. I would like to know the name of the Kebab as displayed in the picture and the recipe to make it
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Sirloin Tip Kebab cooking times

I want to make some Beef Kebabs with onion, sirloin and peppers. I'm using metal skewers (if that helps). How long should I let the Sirloin cook on the kebabs? There is bite size pieces on a grill at 350 degrees F. I want to cook 6 kebabs. Any…
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Alternatives to borax for minced protein recipes (fish balls, kebabs, etc.)?

Borax (sodium salt of boric acid) is used in some recipes as a texturizing agent. From Wikipedia: borax imparts a firm, rubbery texture to food. It does this by binding polymers in the food: Borax acts on these polymers just as it acts on other…
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What are those "white eggs" in doner kebab? (picture attached)

I bought some doner kebab from the supermarket, and it is pre-cooked. When I re-heat it using oven, I found many white round spots/particles, the size is about 3mm to 5mm in diameter. I attach some pictures below. Figure.1 is from refrigerator…
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