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
- 750 g lamb or beef fillet
- 2½ onions
- 2½ green peppers
- 3¾ tomatoes
- 2½ tbsp tomato paste
- 1¼ tsp turmeric
- 1¼ tsp saffron threads, ground and dissolved in 4 tbsp hot water
- 5 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.