These Chicken Kebabs Patties are super flavorful and perfect for keeping your healthy resolutions intact. Packed with cinnamon, cloves, bay leaf, lentils and loads of other spices and very little oil, these are a tasty addition to your dinner!
These Chicken Kebab Patties!
Yes, you can make super delicious kebabs without a grill in the convenience of your cozy warm home kitchen on a skillet. This is something I have been dreaming about for sometime now. I grew up eating or should I say receiving lots of good flavorful chicken kebabs from my dad’s friends places.
They knew me and my brother were big meat lovers so whenever they would make these, they made sure to drop us a box of these warm fresh kebabs sometimes made from lamb or chicken. Since I moved to US, I have been wanting to try them as they are my absolute favorite when it comes to chicken kebabs. Recently my mother got hold of the recipe from my favorite aunt and since then I was just waiting for the right time to whip up a batch of these.
With my brother spending his vacations with us, I decided to give these a try as these are something we both grew up eating and are both of our favorite. Super flavorful, I mean there is seriously so much flavor that I feel sometimes even non meat eaters might like to give these a go. And did I tell you how healthy these are? There’s barely any oil used in cooking these.
These kebab patties are packed with ground chicken meat, lentils, onions, ginger,garlic and tons of other spices. You might have most of the ingredients in your pantry already apart from the obvious chicken/lamb, lentils (easily available at any supermarket).
These comes together in under an hour and are so so tasty that it will be hard to stop at just few! And remember to make some extra as they stay good for upto a few days when kept in an airtight container in refrigerator. These warm up beautifully in microwave or skillet. Serve them with some green salad, mint chutney or your favorite greens, over a bed of rice (one of my favorite way to eat), with Indian flatbread or just enjoy these plain. Your family will go nuts for these.
- 1 pound ground chicken meat (You can even use lamb)
- 1 medium red onion, chopped in big pieces
- 2 tbsp ginger, chopped
- 12-15 cloves of garlic, just peeled
- 3 tbsp cumin seeds
- 15 whole peppercorn
- 2 big black cardamoms
- 4-5 green cardamoms
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 5-6 dry red chilies
- Salt to taste
- 150 gm split bengal gram(chana dal)
- 3 tbsp all purpose flour
- few tbsps oil for cooking
- Add all the ingredients except oil and flour in a pot and to it add 1 cup water. Cook mixing frequently until all the water is evaporated and meat is cooked through. Chicken mince will be almost white. Once all the water has evaporated, keep it aside.
- Add this cooked mix in a high speed blender and blend until you get a smooth paste like consistency.
- Transfer it to a bowl and to it add 3 tbsp all purpose flour or any other flour just so they bind super tight. For making these completely gluten free, you can use gluten free flour.
- Roll them into desired size patties.
- Heat a tsp of oil on a skillet and once hot, place the patties. Once they are crispy flip and repeat cooking on the other side until crispy.
- Serve.
They taste amazing as an appetizer or snack too with chilled beer.
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sumit says
January 8, 2015 at 8:11 PMHi Ami,
Thanks for sharing delicious recipe. I grew up in India. I know all the ingredient you are using in this dish are incredible and full of flavour.
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naivecookcooks says
January 8, 2015 at 9:59 PMThanks Sumit for stopping by!! Hope you give this a try!
Kiran @ KiranTarun.com says
January 9, 2015 at 11:04 AMThese kebab patties look so delicious and moist 🙂
naivecookcooks says
January 12, 2015 at 10:56 PMThanks girl!! Let me know if you try these!
Shinee says
January 9, 2015 at 5:15 PMOh my, my! These kebab patties look delicious and so easy to make. Love it!
naivecookcooks says
January 12, 2015 at 10:56 PMThanks Shinee!
Amanda says
January 10, 2015 at 12:32 AMI love this idea! Great idea!!!
naivecookcooks says
January 12, 2015 at 10:56 PMThanks Amanda and I am loving your lightened up chocolate cake!!
Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella says
January 11, 2015 at 1:37 AMThese sound like they have an awesome flavour profile with all of those spices! And the best thing is how versatile these sound! 😀
naivecookcooks says
January 12, 2015 at 10:54 PMThanks Lorraine!! Try these. You will love them!
Judit + Corina @Glamorous Bite says
January 11, 2015 at 2:58 AMWhat a flavorful kebab and we love the addition of cumin! The spices sound so amazing and with the rain we are having right now we are glad to know we don’t need a grill outside to make these.
naivecookcooks says
January 12, 2015 at 10:49 PMYes you can easily make these on skillet and trust me spices give them so much flavor!! Let me know if you try!
marla says
January 11, 2015 at 9:01 AMSuch a super twist on kebabs! Must try & pinned!
naivecookcooks says
January 12, 2015 at 10:48 PMThanks Marla for pinning!! Your comments mean a lot.
Daniela says
January 11, 2015 at 11:00 AMI love Kebab but have never tried to prepare them myself.
Now I will 🙂
naivecookcooks says
January 12, 2015 at 10:48 PMYou should Daniela!! Let me know if you do.
Kelly - Life Made Sweeter says
January 12, 2015 at 9:40 AMLove how flavorful these chicken kebab patties are! They look fabulous and easy to whip up sounds like a winner to me!
naivecookcooks says
January 12, 2015 at 10:46 PMThey are really easy Kelly and full of flavor from all those spices!!
Michelle @ Vitamin Sunshine says
January 14, 2015 at 5:34 PMThose look delicious– I love all the veggies you packed into them. And beautiful charring on the outside. Pinning!
naivecookcooks says
January 17, 2015 at 10:35 AMThanks Michelle!!
Adam says
January 15, 2015 at 12:55 PMI was thinking about making turkey burgers for dinner tonight, maybe I will give these a whirl and skip the bun:)
naivecookcooks says
January 17, 2015 at 10:33 AMHehe let me know if you do!! Hope you enjoy these!!
aleppo bamboo skewers says
January 30, 2015 at 6:14 AMLast week I had tried your chicken kebab..it was awesome I could say..I recently found out yet another starter recipe, Aleppo Kebab Skewers. It is basically a bamboo kebab made with chicken.. You can find the recipe here: http://www.clubnoor.com/en/recipe/aleppo-kebab-skewers . Can you bring any sort of innovation into this?
naivecookcooks says
February 2, 2015 at 2:01 PMThanks for trying chicken kebabs!! So glad you enjoyed them!