Chicken Kabab

Chicken Kabab – Recipe 1

Ingredients for Chicken Kabab:

1. Chicken (medium-sized, 1.5 kg) – 1
2. Bread pieces – 4
3. Milk – ½ cup
4. Ginger – 1 piece
5. Coriander leaves – 1 bundle
6. Green chillies – 3
7. Eggs – 2
8. Garam masala powder – 2 small spoons
9. Puthina leaves – a little
10. Salt – as required
11. Ghee – as required 

How to prepare Chicken Kabab?

1. Clean the chicken and add salt to it. Cook it as a whole. Then remove bones from the cooked flesh.
2. Dip bread pieces in milk and squeeze them.
3. Make a fine paste of ginger, green chillies and puthina leaves. Then mix this paste with chicken flesh and bread pieces and make a fine paste again.
4. Add eggs and garam masala powder to this paste and mix well.
5. Take a little and pierce it into a kabab skewer. Apply a little ghee to the skewer before the process.
6. Fix a few kababs like this and grill them in the oven or any other method.
7. Add a little ghee once in a while.
8. When it’s well-cooked and its colour changes to grey, place it on a serving plate.
9. Decorate using onion rings and lemon pieces. Serve with putina chutney.  

Chicken Kabab – Recipe 2

Here I present yet another Chicken Kabab recipe published in Vanitha in 2010.

Ingredients for Chicken Kabab:

1. Chicken minced – 1 cup
2. Green papaya grated – 1 big spoon
3. Gram flour roasted – 1.5 big spoons (While roasting the flour should not change its colour)
4. Chilli powder – 1.5 small spoons
5. Garam masala powder – ½ small spoon
6. Turmeric powder – ¼ small spoon
7. Ginger paste – ½ small spoon
8. Garlic paste – ½ small spoon
9. Salt – For taste
10. Oil – For frying

How to prepare Chicken Kabab?

1. Mix together ingredients 1 to 9 and roll into finger-shaped kababs.
2. Fry in hot oil. All sides should turn brown.
3. Pierce each kabab with a sliced carrot on either side using a toothpick, and serve aside tomato sauce.

Note: As green papaya is added to the mix, the chicken easily cooks.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine October 15-31, 2010 

Read a few more chicken curry/side dish recipes. Here is the page link. Click on the images in the gallery to read.