Learning to cook with Daffy Duck

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Re: Learning to cook with Daffy Duck

@Chicken_Biryani

**Shami Kabab Recipe

**soak half a cup of channa daal in water overnight …

Wash 3 cups of boneless chicken pieces and keep aside ..
Slice one onion thinly and keep aside
in a plate take out the following spices: whole black peppercorn about 5-6 , three cloves, small half inch piece of cinnamon…

Now take a pot and add in one cup water .. when it starts to boil, add in the channa daal, chicken, onion, whole spices .. and one and a half tsp salt .. cover the lid of the pot and reduce the heat to lowish medium… stir after 15 minutes …

you need to cook this mixture until:
1- daal seems cooked but still doesnt mash at the touch of the spoon.. you can try one or two dana’s of the daal … if it gets over cooked in the process , you wont be able to make kabab … if it remains slightly undercooked, koi fikar nai, rest of it will get cooked during the kabab frying process …

2- the chicken should also be cooked but still hard .. if it gets too soft you might find it hard to make kababs .. so keep checking …

The water should dry up completely .. but if it dries up before the daal and chicken get to the above mentioned consistency, then add quarter cup water … right when you believe both chicken and daal are done, heat it on high fire to ensure water dries out … this should be done no more then 3-4 minutes and dont forget to stir it otherwise it will stick to the bottom of the pan …

now take it all out and leave it aside to cool … when done, now time to chop it all up… in the chopper add 4-5 green chillies and give it a good run so the chillies get chopped .. then add half cup fresh cilantro .. and run the chopper again for a minute , dont mash it too much or it will become liquidy … now add the chicken and daal in there .. half tsp garam masala, half tsp red chilli powder , if you have imli at home, just add quarter tsp of imli , if you dont have it , no problem dont worry about it … dont run the blender as yet , we have to add and egg too .. beat an egg and only add half of it into the mixture …

Now give it a good blend.. it should get done in 3-4 rounds of the blender … dont over do it , werna keema will become all runny …

once its all blended in nicely … take it out .. wet your hands, start making flat patties … meanwhile in a frying pan heat oil no more then three tblspoons … and when oil is really hot, dip the kabab in egg and on to the frying pan . fry … and enjoy

TIps:
If kabab mixture becomes too runny .. then add half cup bread crumbs and wait for 10 minutes before making kababs …

If it remains too thick , then add a few drops of lemon juice … that will help settle the texture of the mix.

Good luck , tell us how it goes

OMG i completely forgot i hadn’t replied to you on this recipe. I made those Shami Kababs a few days back. I followed your recipe & they came out exactly that way .. when you go to others house and cant keep your hands off the kababs and are embarrassed to take more.

Ill fry them & put up pics for you. I encountered 3 problems:

**1 - **When blending, the keema & daal didnt get blended in the blender. I tried putting in less keema and then again more, it didnt help much. Only the last layer right near the cutter was smooth like a paste. Anyway, I took it all out and used the masher or what do you call it “koonda” or some thing to pees it. The keema got into a thick paste form but many of the daal grains remained there. I didnt like that though.

2 - There was no peesa hua garam masala so i put in cloves, cinemon etc. separately. Although, they added to the taste but it was irritating to have them keep coming in the mouth in solid form. So next time ill make sure i take peesa hua garam masala instead.

**3 - **When making the kababs, they weren’t sticking too well. So mum told me to add some egg in the keema paste. I did so and then she taught me the proper way of making the rounded well joined shapes. They turned out well, Masha Allah.

I am sooo happy shami kababs were a successful try since they, along with biryani, are his favourite type of food. Can you give me some special ingredient tip to make these even more tastier for him?

Thanks a million CB! Now if you get time, please teach me the best chicken Biryani with all sorts of things added to make it unique & spicy. I want to make him go crazy when he has it since he is very particular with the good taste of Biryani. Plus, he himself knows how to cook it well. So i need to out-do him in it