Delicacy deliciousness - tava kebab beads: a masterpiece of Azerbaijani cuisine

Kebab as such in the view of most people of non-Eastern nationalities is, roughly speaking, cutlets strung on skewers and baked on a grill. And this opinion, in principle, is true. However, there is a special delicacy of delicacy - tava kebab beads, which recipe was shared with the world by Azerbaijani cooking. And the most pleasant thing about them is that it is not necessary to cook this dish on an open fire, but in the most ordinary oven. So the true taste can be easily realized in your kitchen, without receding from the recipe.

Tava-kebab by all means

To get a real delicacy of delicacy, it is necessary to prepare tambourine kebab from lamb. 750 grams of meat and two large onions are ground in a meat grinder, flavored with salt and pepper and diligently vymeshivayutsya. From minced meat, small round balls are molded, slightly flattened and fried in creamy melted butter without any kind of breading. Two more crushed onions are filled with a spoon with a glass of sugar, sprinkled with a pile of wine vinegar and left to marinate. Fried tava kebab bits are put into shape, poured with eggs (8 pieces), whipped and mixed with crumbled dill, cilantro and mint. It remains to add onion sauce, put in the oven and bake until the omelet is formed.

Cooking options

Classical Azerbaijani cuisine offers a different version of the recipe, according to which delicacy delicacies are prepared - tava kebab beads. First, instead of the onion sauce, you can make tomato. For him, with a third of a kilogram of fresh tomatoes, the skin is removed, the attachment points to the bush are removed and the seeds are cleaned. Vegetables are processed in puree. Onion, which in the previous recipe was marinated, for this option is added in lean oil; As it becomes soft - add the mush from tomatoes. The further actions are the same.

It is also not necessary to bake exclusively tava-kebab. The recipe allows to make the dish absolutely independent, not requiring a side dish. To do this, the little beads laid out in the mold are covered with large slices of potatoes fried in advance. All ingredients are filled with sauce and eggs, and only after that the frying pan goes to the oven.

Fish tawa-kebab

No less delicious delicacies - tiva kebab bits of fish. True, they will need such exotic ingredients as boiled chestnuts (if desired, you can find) and sauce narsherab. The latter can be done on your own, evaporating the real pomegranate juice to a density and adding spices - pepper, cinnamon, basil and coriander. For mince, a kilo of fish without skin and bones is ground with a piece of soaked bread, an onion and 16 chestnuts. Add grated carrots and pepper with salt to the mass. Because fish tawa-kebab is very delicate, before panning it is breaded in breadcrumbs. But the baking is not provided: you have to cook until you are ready. Ready to put the dish on the plates, pour over the narsherab and sprinkle with chopped greens.

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