Chicken Shami Kebabs

Ingredients :

Set : 1

Boneless meat minced - 1 kg

Chana daal(washed and soaked for an hour) -1 cup

Ginger -1 piece

Garlic cloves-12

Onion -1

Whole red chillies- 3

Black peppercorns -6

Cloves - 3

Cinnamon stick -1 inch Piece

Bay leaves - 2

Salt to taste

Set : 2

For dry roast & grinding

Coriander seeds - 2 tsp

Cummin seeds - 2 tsp

Fennel seeds - 1 tsp

Dry grated coconut - 2 tsp

Poppy seeds - 2 tsp

Set : 3

Onion - 1 big finely chopped

Green Chilies - 2 finely chopped

Coriander leaves - chopped

Mint leaves - chopped

Lemon juice - 1 small lemon

Corn Flour - 3 Table Spoons

Method :

Put all the ingredients under set - 1 in a pan along with water and cook till done. dry it completely. Cool the mixture and grind it to a coarse paste.. Add the masala powder under set -2 mix well ....& now add all chopped ingredients & lemon , corn flour under set -3 into meat mixture....Mix everything thoroughly and shape the kebabs. Shallow fry them in oil on medium heat. Shami Kebabs are ready to relish ..serve them with Tomato ketch up..

- Raja Kumari Akunuru