Persian cooking: recipes · Kebab: grilled dishes
Kabab Chenjeh کباب چنجه
Cubes of lamb marinated in onion and yogurt and grilled alternately with tomato and pepper.
Ingredients
- 3600 g lamb or beef fillet
- 9 onions
- 18 tbsp plain yogurt
- 9 tbsp oil
- 4½ tbsp saffron threads, ground and dissolved in 4 tbsp hot water
- 9 green peppers
- 36 tomatoes
- salt (to taste)
- black pepper (to taste)
Method
- Cut the meat into 3 cm cubes.
- Marinate overnight with grated onion, yogurt, oil, saffron and pepper.
- Thread alternately with peppers and small tomatoes onto skewers and grill for 10 minutes, then salt.
- Serve with saffron rice, grilled tomatoes and sumac.