It differs from kebab kebabs in that only meat, onions and spices are used for its preparation, eggs and bread are mainly not part of the dish.
If you want to diversify your menu, cook something unusual from your favorite minced meat, then feel free to use our carefully selected, proven recipes for making chicken kebab.
Chicken Lula Kebab - General Principles
Traditionally, the dish was prepared from fat mutton, but in the form of popularity the recipe of the classic kebab varied over time, and today you can meet many options for its preparation: pork, beef, poultry. Chicken lula kebab won special love among the hostesses: firstly, chicken meat is much cheaper than other types of meat, secondly, chicken is cooked faster, and thirdly, the poultry dish is low-calorie.
The chicken is processed: washed, peeled, the fillet is separated from the bones, after the pulp is crushed. In minced meat put onion, chopped into small cubes, a variety of spices, garlic, herbs. Of herbs and spices, basil, cilantro, parsley, hops-suneli, oregano, pepper are mainly used.
Stuffed meat is kneaded for a long time and thoroughly, which allows the meat mass to become more plastic, and this ensures that the kebab does not fall apart when frying or baking. The starch can be a connecting component, the addition of eggs is also acceptable.
In his classic recipe, Lula kebab is cooked by roasting over coals, but this does not mean at all that this dish cannot be cooked at home. Equally tasty and juicy is the chicken kebab, cooked in a pan, in the oven, in a slow cooker and even in an electric skewer.
Serve hot kebab with fresh vegetables, homemade pita bread and a variety of sauces. Also, baked vegetables, mushrooms, rice are perfectly combined with kebab.
1. Grilled chicken kebab on the grill
Ingredients:
• 6 large chicken legs;
• 2 onions;
• garlic - 8 cloves;
• fresh basil - 2 branches;
• seasoning of cumin, cilantro in powder - 10 g each;
• 4 eggs;
• acetic acid 6% - 30 ml;
• a pinch of salt and black pepper powder.
Cooking method:
1. Cut the thawed legs: cut the bones, separate the skin. Scroll the pulp through a meat grinder.
2. Break the eggs into a cup and beat with a whisk, pour into the minced meat.
3. Also add minced greens of cilantro and basil, cloves of garlic squeezed through the garlic, chopped onion, add seasoning, salt, pepper, mix thoroughly, and mix thoroughly, gently beating on the table.
4. Wrap minced meat in a film for food and put in the refrigerator for 60 minutes.
5. Separate the minced meat with hands moistened in warm water into several small parts, each formed into skewers in the form of elongated cutlets.
6. Put the skewers on a hot grill, fry kebab over hot coals.
7. When serving, spread the kebab on a flat plate with sliced tomatoes and cucumbers, decorate with parsley leaves.
2. Oven-baked chicken kebab
Ingredients:
• chicken - a little less than a kilogram;
• 2 onions;
• 30 g of starch;
• a piece of butter;
• 100 g of Dutch cheese;
• green basil and parsley - 4 branches each;
• oregano powder, allspice, salt - 30 g each;
• onion greens - 1 bunch.
Cooking method:
1. Rinse the chicken fillet cleaned of skin and fatty layers, pass through a meat grinder.
2. Add a slice of butter, chopped onion, grated cheese, starch, oregano, chopped basil and parsley greens to the prepared minced meat, salt, pepper, mix well, and beat a little.
3. We wet our hands in warm water, take a little mincemeat on our palm, roll up a ball, form an elongated sausage from it, string on wooden skewers.
4. Put all the sausages on a frying sheet greased with sunflower oil, put in a hot oven and bake at a moderate temperature for a little less than half an hour.
5. When serving, put the kebab on the edges of a flat plate, put half the onion half-rings in the middle, sprinkle with chopped green onions.
3. Chicken lula kebab with bell pepper
Ingredients:
• slightly less than a kilogram of minced chicken;
• 1 pod of sweet pepper;
• onion head;
• green cilantro and parsley - 3 branches each;
• salt, seasoning for barbecue, sweet paprika powder, dry ginger, hops-suneli - 20 g each;
• starch - a pinch.
Cooking method:
1. We mix the minced meat with chopped onion, chopped small pepper, sweet pepper, add seasoning, ginger, chopped cilantro and basil, pour a little salt, pepper, stir well.
2. Pour a pinch of starch so that the stuffing is more plastic and the kebab does not fall apart during heat treatment, mix again, beat off a little for 3-5 minutes.
3. Preheat the oven in advance, put parchment paper on a baking sheet, grease it with oil.
4. On long wooden sticks with wet hands, string the stuffing, form a kebab.
5. Put the semi-finished products on a baking sheet and put in the oven, bake for half an hour.
6. After 15 minutes, open the oven and turn the sticks so that the kebab is baked on all sides.
7. We put the baked kebab on a flat plate, in the middle we put fresh vegetables, sliced, in a separate bowl we put hot ketchup and a bread box with a fresh tortilla.
4. Homemade chicken kebab with sauce
Ingredients:
• chicken breast - 2 pcs.;
• a couple of cloves of garlic;
• sweet pepper pod;
• a small piece of Dutch cheese;
• 1 egg;
• a pinch of black pepper and salt;
• some vegetable oil.
To decorate:
• 5 cherry tomatoes;
• parsley, dill - 6 branches each.
For the sauce:
• half a glass of red wine and any cream;
• ginger, dry coriander, salt, black pepper - a pinch.
Cooking method:
1. Sweet pepper, cut the stalk, remove the seeds, cut into small cubes.
2. Hard boiled egg, cut into cubes, cheese also cut into cubes. Mix both ingredients with pepper.
3. Add three chopped branches of dill and parsley, salt, pepper, squeeze the garlic through the garlic.
4. Separate the flesh from the chicken breasts, cut the fillet into small pieces, and scroll through the meat grinder.
5. In the minced meat we put all the previously prepared ingredients, mix well.
6. Pour vegetable oil into the minced meat. We interfere.
7. Wet the ball with wet hands, flatten it a bit, put a bamboo skewer in the middle of the resulting cake and cover it with minced meat, form a kebab in the form of an elongated cutlet.
8. Put the formed kebab on a baking sheet, put in a hot oven and bake a little less than half an hour.
9. While the kebabs are baked, prepare the sauce: pour wine into a small metal pan, evaporate a little and pour the cream, add ginger, coriander and simmer until thickened.
10. We put the baked kebab-lula on a plate laid with pita bread, put washed cherry tomatoes next to it, put the sauce in a separate bowl.
5. Chicken kebab fast
Ingredients:
• 2 kilograms of chicken meat;
• a pair of onions;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• allspice, salt, seasoning for meat - 30 g each;
• parsley leaves - 4 pcs.
Cooking method:
1. Cut the chicken flesh into a small cube, mix it with chopped onion and crushed small crushed garlic.
2. Grind the leaves of parsley and pour into the minced meat, add seasoning, add salt, pepper, mix well.
3. Wrap the mass in film and put in the refrigerator for 20-40 minutes.
4. From the minced meat we make small elongated cutlets, string them on bamboo sticks, put on a sheet and put in a hot oven for 20 minutes.
5. In the process of baking, periodically open the oven and turn the kebab.
6. We transfer the finished kebab to a flat dish, beautifully lay the slices of tomatoes, cucumbers and slices of bell pepper, sprinkle with finely chopped parsley, put ketchup in the bowl.
6. Chicken kebab without skewers in a pan
Ingredients:
• a small cup of minced chicken;
• 2 onion heads;
• garlic - half a head;
• a pinch of salt and allspice powder;
• dill - 3 branches;
• half a teaspoon of starch;
• some frying oil.
Cooking method:
1. Stuffing mix with finely chopped onions, garlic, pour in starch, pour in black pepper, add salt, stir well, lightly beat on the table.
2. Wet your hands in water, take 150 g of minced meat on your palm, form a long sausage.
3. We lay out the prepared semi-finished products in a frying pan with oil, fry over high heat until crusty.
4. Slightly reduce the fire and fry for about ten minutes until cooked.
5. When serving kebab, we put it on a flat plate, next to it we spread the onion head sliced in half rings, sprinkle with dill greens, and water with ketchup.
Chicken Lula Kebab - Tips and Tricks
• Minced kebab mincemeat is made from coarse or chopped minced meat, small minced meat is more suitable for cutlets and zraz.
• If you decide to cook kebab on wooden skewers, then they should be soaked in advance for an hour or half an hour in cold water, so they definitely will not burn out during frying or baking.
• When cooking kebab on the grill, remember that it is better not to flood the raging fire with water and put out the wearer. Water cools coals, and the dish may not fry.
• The optimal time for cooking kebab on the grill is 10-12 minutes, in the pan - 15-20 minutes, in the oven - from 20 minutes to half an hour. In any case, it is important not to forget to turn the kebab from side to side.
