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
- 4400 g lamb or beef fillet
- 11 onions
- 22 tbsp plain yogurt
- 11 tbsp oil
- 5½ tbsp saffron threads, ground and dissolved in 4 tbsp hot water
- 11 green peppers
- 44 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.