Friday, January 13, 2012

Kabab-Non Veg Delight

Kabab-Chicken--Fish--Mutton--Bar-be-que or
Tan door or Grilled

Oh my friends, am I foodie of the city?
Or  just non vegetarian looking for meat?
No-It is Kabab, winters, New Delhi Streets and you know what?


New Delhi, city which accepts and loves all type of food and makes it industry for everyone around.

Winters and Kebabs have something similar for any non vegetarian food lover coming or living in the city names New Delhi.

From street to fine dine restaurants, Kebabs are always in demand during winters.

In Delhi, we have lot of variety of Kabab which influence the location within the city and some time other parts of the country, like we have Hyderabadi, Luknawai, Awadhi and Punjabi Kababs. Here difference in only of spices, which even a street vendor, keeps secret.


Traditionally with chefs and cook books recipes they have made some varieties of Kabab, which are as follows, may be you can find difference only if you have eaten all of them which normally we can find around this city.



VARIETY OF KABABS

1-- Shish kebab (in which şiş (Turkish: Şiş Kebap), is the Turkish word for "skewer.

2- Döner kebab, literally "rotating kebab" in Turkish, is sliced lamb, beef or chicken, slowly roasted on a vertical rotating spit. The Middle Eastern shawarma, Mexican tacos al pastor and Greek gyros are all derived from the Turkish döner kebab which was invented in Bursa in the 19th century by a cook named Hacı İskender

3- Kenjeh is a popular meat dish in the Middle East. It originated in Iran and was later adopted by Asia Minor. Kebab Kenjeh is now found worldwide. Lamb is traditionally the meat used in this dish.

4- Kakori kebab is a South Asian kebab attributed to the city of Kakori in Uttar Pradesh, India. The kebab is made of finely ground mince goat meat with spices and then charcoal grilled on a skewer. It is commonly served with Roomali Roti very thin bread)

5- Kalmi kebab is one of the popular snacks in Indian cuisine. The dish is made by marinating chicken drumsticks and placing them in a tandoor. Various kinds of freshly ground Indian spices are added to the yogurt used for the marination of the chicken. When prepared, the drumsticks are usually garnished by mint leaves and served with onions and Indian bread.

6- Burrah kebab is another kebab from Mughlai Cuisine, fairly popular in South Asia. This is usually made of goat meat, liberally marinated with spices and charcoal grilled.

7-Galouti-- The Galouti Kebab is part of the "Awadhi Cuisine". Along with the Lucknowi biryani and Kakori Kebab, this is one of the outstanding highlights of the great food tradition from the Awadh region in Uttar Pradesh, India.



Many leading Indian hotel chains have taken to popularizing the Awadhi food tradition, with the Galouti Kebab being a Pièce de résistance. The home of this kebab is Lucknow. It is most famously had at the almost iconic eatery "Tundey  Miyan" at Old Lucknow. Some of Popular names of Kabab in India, as we all know Kabab are served in China, Greece, Turkey and in form of Bar-be-que  in USA.


Non vegetarian cuisine is rich with different kebabs. Meat including beef, chicken, lamb and fish is used in kababs. Some popular Kebabs are:


                
With influence of Persian and moguls in early 10th century New Delhi has seen and accepted the moguls’ non vegetarian food easily. We have till date best goat meat and chicken available from local street shop to frozen shopping mall.


Kebab’s origin may be old and dish to be made with left over meat, which than minced and cooked on left over fire in slow heat, which gives burning effect at the last mined part of every portion to eat. Mouth spoken history tells that this dish is of Persian origin having Arabic influence into it. 


According to Battuta, a Moroccan traveler, in India wrote somewhere that in India, during regime of Delhi Sultanate in period of 1206-1280, Kabab made import part of royal cuisine. Although some where it had been written that Kabab had a history in ancient Greece since 8th centaury BC. So we have here Kabab is here for last 1200 years of existence as history tells.


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Kebab ( or kabab, kabob, kebap) is a wide variety of meat dishes originating in Persia and later on adopted by the Middle East, Turkey and Asia Minor, and now found worldwide. In North American English, kebab with no qualification generally refers more specifically to shish kebab served on the skewer.[3] In the Middle East, however, kebab includes grilled, roasted, and stewed dishes of large or small cuts of meat, or even ground meat; it may be served on plates, in sandwiches, or in bowls. The traditional meat for kebab is lamb, but depending on local tastes and taboos, it may now be beef, goat, chicken, pork; fish and seafood; or even vegetarian foods like falafel or tofu. Like other ethnic foods brought by travelers, the kebab has become part of everyday cuisine in many countries around the globe.


Kabab are normally made out of any finally chopped minced meat. Mixed with local spices and garlic in general. Shaped live small candy stick or rounded patti grilled in bar-be-que of charcoal or wood fire only. Historically Kebabs are side or first dish to serve.


In India, where we have influence of Moguls cuisine all over for 800 years now. We respect this dish as the best main starters in all type of occasion from lunch to dinner to buffet party. It is non vegetarian dish so it is most accepted in Northern part of INDIA, not just because of having lot of non vegetarians around but it is best served and liked in winters .So here we are, winters in New Delhi.


Some of the best places of have Kababs

1-Karim –Old Delhi
2-Nizam-Connauth place
3-Khan Chacha-Khan Market
4-Thugs-Asaf Ali Road
5-Kabab factory-Defense colony and some five star Hotels
6-Kakori Kabab-RKP Sector-6 and Punjabi Bagh


Some narrow streets of Nizzamudin in south Delhi and old DELHI, behind Jama Majid, have some hidden joints those serves authentic kababs and their chefs are ancensestor of Moguls royal kitchen cooks.


Otherwise has some local street or small evening eat out restaurants serves very good kababs, it all depends how much local city shopping and eating market we know
I shall be keep posting names all together. Shall be starting soon guide of good food eat out in the city both fine dine and street based.




Thanks for reading
By New Delhi Foodie
Shailesh


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