Persian cooking: recipes · Kebab: grilled dishes
Kabab Hosseini کباب حسینی
Small skewers of meat, onion, tomato and pepper that are braised in tomato sauce in a pot rather than grilled.
Ingredients
- 450 g lamb or beef fillet
- 1½ onions
- 1½ green peppers
- 2¼ tomatoes
- 1½ tbsp tomato paste
- ¾ tsp turmeric
- ¾ tsp saffron threads, ground and dissolved in 4 tbsp hot water
- 3 tbsp oil
- salt (to taste)
- black pepper (to taste)
Method
- Cut the meat, onions, peppers and tomatoes into pieces and thread alternately onto short wooden skewers.
- Brown the skewers all over in the oil.
- Stir the tomato paste with turmeric and 300 ml water, pour over the skewers and season with salt and pepper.
- Braise covered over low heat for 1½ hours, adding the saffron at the end. Serve with rice or bread.