Lula kebab on skewers: 2 recipes (minced meat and potato)

Lula kebab is a traditional Arab dish, which is a long cutlet, fried and put on a skewer or skewer. The traditional ingredients for preparing this dish are, of course, meat and onions.

Onions need to be taken in large quantities, and as for the requirements for lamb, fatty meat is better. Lula kebab differs from ordinary cutlets in that it does not contain eggs and bread, but uses various spices, such as garlic and pepper. There are quite a few different options for making kebab, they depend on the method of preparation and on the ingredients from which they are prepared.

Lula kebab at home in the oven - photo recipe

It’s not always possible to go out into nature and make real lamb kekab over coals. But if you wish, you can cook original sausages in the oven using pork, beef or chicken.

The main thing in preparing this oriental dish is to thoroughly mix and beat the minced meat, which will not allow the meat sausages to fall apart during further cooking. This recipe will tell you about preparing lula kebab from ground beef and pork with the addition of various spices.

Ingredients:

• 1.5 kg of minced beef and pork;
• 2 large onions;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• 2 tsp ground coriander;
• 3 tsp ground paprika;
• vegetable oil;
• salt.

1. Peel and chop the onions.

2. Put chopped onion and garlic through a special press into the minced meat, add coriander, paprika and salt to taste.

3. Since the minced meat for lula kebab does not contain an egg and bread, it must be thoroughly mixed and beaten. It is recommended to do this for 15-20 minutes so that the mass acquires viscosity and becomes homogeneous.

4. Next, you need to form sausages of the same size from the resulting minced meat.

5. Carefully thread the products onto skewers (both wooden and metal can be used).

6. Place foil on a baking sheet and spread it with vegetable oil. Arrange the resulting lula kebabs. Bake in the oven at 200 degrees for 45 minutes.

7. After 45 minutes, lula kebab is ready.

8. You can serve it with pickled onions and some side dish to taste, in this case it’s mung beans in tomato.

How to cook beef lula kebab at home on the grill

And I’ll probably start my first lula recipe - this is beef lula kebab. And to get a very tasty and juicy beef kebab you need to spend a lot of time and effort.

It is best to buy meat for the recipe at the market in a trusted place and when you get home, grind it yourself in a meat grinder. So you will already know exactly what your lula kebab is made of.

Ingredients

• Beef - 2 kg.
• Lard or fat tail - 400 grams
• Onion - 1 kg.
• Coriander - 1 tsp.
• Hot pepper - 0.5 tsp.
• Zira - 1.5 tsp.
• Cilantro - 1 bunch
• Salt and ground pepper - to taste

How to cook lula kebab on the grill

Make homogeneous minced meat from the ingredients listed in the recipe. Under no circumstances should you add semolina and eggs to the minced meat, since these are not cutlets. The minced meat is thoroughly kneaded and beaten well to remove excess moisture.

From the prepared minced meat, make sausages 3-4 cm thick by hand, and then put them on skewers. If desired, you can directly sculpt the minced meat onto a skewer, making a thick, dense sausage.

To prepare lula kebab on the grill, use both skewers and a spit. Please note that meat can slip off flat skewers, which is very risky. You can use wooden skewers.

Lula kebab, strung on skewers or skewers, is fried on hot coals on a grill. Be sure to constantly turn the skewers to get an even golden brown crust.

The ideal lula kebab has a thick and golden-brown crust, and inside it is soft and full of juice. Ready-made lula-kebabs are immediately served to the table in combination with sauces and vegetable appetizers.

Recipe for cooking lula kebab on the grill at home

Kitchenware

• First of all, let's prepare a well-sharpened long knife and a wooden board.
• It is very important to have a meat grinder to prepare real lula kebab according to this recipe.
• Now you need to find a spacious container for kneading minced meat.
• Of course, we will need skewers. For our recipe we need 4 of them.
• Without a barbecue with hot coals, nothing will work.

Required Ingredients

Step-by-step preparation of lula kebab

Let's prepare the ingredients

1. First of all, let's take care of the meat: wash the pork and trim off excess fat.
2. Next, cut the meat with a knife into medium-sized pieces.

3. We do the same with white bread.
4. Then we twist the chopped pieces of meat and bread through a meat grinder once so that the juice is retained in the minced meat.

5. After this, remove the peel from the onion, wash it and chop the ingredient as finely as possible using a knife.

6. We also try to finely chop the garlic cloves.

Making minced meat

1. Pour the chopped onion into a bowl with the rolled meat mixture and stir the resulting mixture well by hand.
2. After this, add spices: black pepper, ground coriander, hot red pepper and a little cumin.
3. Add chopped garlic and wine vinegar here.

4. Now comes the most crucial moment: kneading the minced meat. The viscosity and juiciness of our product depends on how well we knead the minced meat.
5. Knead the meat mixture intensively for about ten minutes. The process itself is not much different from kneading dough for pies.

6. After mixing the minced meat well, we need to beat it: we collect the mass into a lump and then forcefully throw it back into the bowl. We repeat this action for quite a long time, approximately ten minutes.
7. Place the finished minced meat in the refrigerator for approximately 2-3 hours. so that it is properly infused and saturated with all the spices.

Forming lula kebab

1. After proofing, add salt to the minced meat and mix it thoroughly again.
2. Now we divide the minced meat into four equal parts, each of which we beat well in the palm of our hand, tossing it from one hand to the other.
3. Thread the formed ball of minced meat onto a skewer and distribute it evenly with your hands over the entire working surface of the tool.

Frying lula kebab

1. Place the skewers on the grill with hot coals.

2. Turning the skewers every minute, fry the meat until golden brown. If flames break out in the grill, immediately extinguish them with a small amount of water.

3. Serve the finished lula kebab on the table hot.

Lula kebab recipe in a frying pan

It will be a little easier to cook lula kebab in a frying pan. This makes the task easier because even if the cutlets begin to fall apart, they will not fall further than the frying pan and will not burn in the coals. In addition, you can cook lula kebab at home every day, and not just in good weather.

To prepare lula kebab in a frying pan you will need:

• 1 kg lamb;
• 300 gr. fat;
• 300 gr. Luke;
• salt and pepper to taste.

Cooking steps:

1. Prepare minced lamb meat by finely chopping it.
2. Then finely chop the onion with a knife.
3. Add onion to the minced meat, mix it, add salt and pepper.
4. Then you need to knead the minced meat again and put it in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.
5. After the specified time, form elongated cutlets from the minced meat.
6. Now you can take wooden skewers and put the cutlets directly on them. This is our future lula kebab.
7. You need to take a frying pan and pour vegetable oil onto it. Both olive and vegetable oil are suitable, here again it’s a matter of taste.
8. The frying pan needs to be heated and only then can you put the lula kebab on it.
9. It is necessary to fry until cooked, that is, until a golden brown crust appears. During cooking, the heat should be reduced to medium, and the skewers with the products should be rotated regularly.
10. In total, fry the cutlets for about 8 minutes until fully cooked.

Step-by-step recipe for grilled lula kebab made from minced pork

Now that you've figured out how to prepare beef kebab, it's time to look at the steps for preparing pork. And for convenience, we will start, as always, with the list of ingredients:

• Pork - 1 kg.
• Chicken thigh - 800 grams
• Lard - 200 grams
• Parsley and cilantro - 1 bunch
• Coriander - 1 tbsp. l.
• Zira - 1 tsp.
• Salt and pepper - to taste

In this kebab recipe, you can also use chicken in addition to pork. She harmonizes perfectly with her in this dish. If you do not have a fatty piece of meat, then you definitely need to take a piece of lard. But you don’t need to take a lot, it won’t make the lula juicier. The proportions are approximately as follows: per 1 kg. pulp - 200 grams of lard, maybe a little less depending on the fat content of the pork. Then the minced meat for lula kebab will be simply amazing. Here we go…

Pork kebab

One of the varieties is pork kebab.

To prepare it you will need:

• minced pork - 700 gr.;
• lard – 100 gr.;
• onions – 2 pcs.;
• salt, pepper and spices to taste.

Stages of preparing pork lula kebab:

1. Chop the onion into small pieces.
2. Then grind the pork, chopping it finely.
3. Add the necessary spices, salt and pepper to the pork. Dried basil, coriander, cilantro and others can be used as spices.
4. Then take a bowl and knead the minced meat for 20 minutes, but no less. Add onion to the resulting mass.
5. After this, pour vegetable or olive oil into the minced meat and mix again.
6. Further actions will depend on where you are preparing lula kebab. If you are cooking at a picnic, you will need skewers or skewers. If at home in a frying pan, then only a frying pan.
7. Form the minced meat into small patties and place them on skewers.
8. Then fry the lula kebab for about 12 minutes until done. At the same time, you need to turn it over more often than regular cutlets in order to fry on all sides.
9. Lula kebab is best served with fresh vegetables, tasty sauce and herbs; you can also add pita bread to the meat.

Lula kebab from minced meat on the grill: recipe

First, I would like to say a few words in defense of my incorrect lula kebab. After all, what is this dish in its classic version? This is chopped chilled lamb, which not only has never been frozen, but has never seen a refrigerator at all. And “chopped” means chopped with a knife (hatchet), and not twisted through a meat grinder. Chopped fat tail fat is also added to this lamb. At the same time, there is also a certain cutting technique - first along the grain, then across it, with turning over and other dances with tambourines. If you are looking for just such a proper lula kebab, then, unfortunately, you will not find it here. We are not ready for such feats and will make a simplified version of lula kebab from the wrong minced meat, but using some principles of frying a real dish on the grill with the sole purpose that this yummy does not fall off the skewer into the fire and goes to ourselves, and not to the lucky ones dogs.

What do we need for lula kebab?

• minced pork – 400g;
• onion – 2 onions;
• a pinch of ground spices: black pepper, cumin, coriander;
• salt - to taste;
• pita bread for serving.

How to prepare minced meat for lula kebab and fry it on the grill

1. It is better to make minced meat for lula kebab yourself, after thoroughly cleaning the meat from films and veins. If they get into the minced meat, then they will interfere with us during the cooking process. It is better to scroll through the grill with the largest holes. This way the meat will look more like minced meat. Peel the onion and cut it into very small cubes with a knife. We add it to the minced meat, add salt and spices, which are best ground in a mortar beforehand.

2. Mix the minced meat into a homogeneous mixture. We do this carefully, slowly, for a long time. To check the quality of kneading, take some of the minced meat, make a cutlet out of it and throw it at the bottom of the bowl. The cutlet should flatten and spread across the bottom, but not crack or fall apart. If this happens, the minced meat is mixed well.

3. Now we divide it into equal parts and, with hands dipped in water, form cutlets from them. From the specified amount of minced meat you should get 5-6 cutlets.

4. We take a skewer and pierce the cutlet with it.

5. Now, carefully, using squeezing movements, stretch this cutlet, distributing it over the skewer. The layer of minced meat on the skewer should not be thick. This way our lula kebab will quickly fry, we won’t have to turn it on the grill for a long time and often from side to side, which means exposing it to the unnecessary risk of falling on the coals.

6. Pay attention to the tip - it is thinner and seems to be slightly smeared over the skewer. All this is for strength, so that the cradle holds on and does not fall. Since it is thin, it will quickly be caught by fire and will hold the bulk of the minced meat in place.

7. Unlike shish kebab, lula kebab is fried over hotter coals, with constant fanning. As soon as the meat on the downward-facing surface changes color, immediately turn it over and fry the second surface in the same way until the color changes. Turning it over again, we wait for the juice to start releasing; as soon as it appears, we turn it over again. Task: do not let the fat drip onto the coals, because of this the lula kebab will start to burn and the finished color will be ugly. For pork kebab to be ready, 2 turns are usually enough. However, go by the color, it should be golden brown.

8. Removed from the grill, lula kebab is immediately wrapped in pieces of pita bread (it will need to be pre-cut into smaller squares). Lavash will absorb all the juice dripping from the cradle, and you will not lose a drop of deliciousness.

All that remains is to choose a sauce; the simplest option is high-quality tomato ketchup. Especially if it's homemade. Is it possible to refuse this of your own free will???

Now, before we move on to the description of potato lula kebab, a few tips.

Skewers for lula kebab should be good, bend little and wide enough.

If you have no experience at all in frying lula and are worried that the result of your labors will fall into the coals, there are several ways to guarantee “strength”: 1) fat mesh (sold in meat departments), you can wrap it around the lula kebab strung on a skewer after frying it will be almost imperceptible; 2) put the skewers with minced meat on the grill - it will support the kebab and it will definitely not fall down.

Beef kebab recipe

Beef kebab is a delicious oriental dish. Of course, if you cook kebab in the air, it will give the meat an incomparable aroma of the fire.

To prepare kebab you need:

• minced beef -1 kg;
• onion - 2 pcs.;
• salt and pepper to taste, you can use various spices.

In addition, for cooking you will need a cutting board, a bowl, as well as skewers, a frying pan and a stove if you are cooking at home, or skewers, a grill and charcoal if you are cooking outside.

Cooking steps

1. The first step is to prepare the minced meat; to do this, chop the beef finely with a knife.
2. Also finely chop the onion, but under no circumstances use a meat grinder.
3. Then knead the minced meat and beat it well. Simply put, take it out and throw it back into the bowl until it becomes sticky and smooth. Whether the cutlets will fall apart during the frying process depends entirely on how well the minced meat is beaten out.
4. After this, put the minced meat in the refrigerator for about half an hour.
5. It is necessary to remove the minced meat from the refrigerator and form long sausages out of it, putting them on skewers or skewers.
6. Then you can directly cook lula kebab on the grill or in a frying pan.
7. After the lula kebab is cooked, which will happen in about 12 minutes, you need to take a serving dish, decorate with herbs and fresh vegetables, and place the kebab on top.

What you need to know before cooking

Kitchen equipment: skewers, baking tray and blender.
Ingredients:

How to choose the right ingredients:

• Spices can be replaced to suit your taste.
• Chicken thighs are needed to make the dish juicy. If you cook it from fillet, lula kebab will be too dry.

Cooking sequence:

1. Soak the skewers in water for 2 hours to prevent them from burning in the oven.
2. Remove the skin from the thighs and separate the meat from the bones.
3. Grind the meat in a blender. The mass should be slightly uneven.
4. Chop the onion very finely.
5. Mix minced meat, onion, salt and spices.
6. Knead the minced meat for 5-7 minutes. Beat it in a bowl.
7. Place in the refrigerator for 60 minutes.
8. With wet hands, form oblong cutlets and pierce them with skewers.
9. Cover the baking sheet with foil and grease with sunflower oil.
10. Place the lula kebab on a baking sheet and place in the oven (200 degrees; 15 minutes).

Chicken lula kebab can be served with a variety of side dishes and vegetable salads. Video recipe Watch the video on how to cook lula kebab in the oven.

How to cook delicious chicken lula kebab

Another option for making kebab is to use minced chicken.

For this you will need

• chicken meat, you can take ready-made minced meat 500-600 g;
• onion - 2 pcs.;
• salt, pepper to taste.

Preparation:

1. To prepare minced chicken, you need to cut the fillet into thin layers, then into strips and chop them finely.
2. The onion also needs to be cut into small pieces. It is highly undesirable to use a meat grinder, since in this case the required consistency will not be obtained.
3. After the meat has been chopped, mix it with onions, oil, salt, pepper and spices and beat out the minced meat.
4. Then we divide the mass into equal parts with our hands and form oblong cutlets. You can divide it into several parts and make a ball out of each, then make oblong thick cutlets from this ball.
5. Then the kebabs can be immediately placed on a baking sheet or frying pan, or put on skewers and skewers, and only then cooked over coals, in the oven or in a frying pan.
6. To bake, you need to preheat the oven to 200 degrees. After 12 minutes, take out the finished lula kebabs and serve along with fresh vegetables.

How to make lula kebab from lamb

Traditionally, kebab is made from lamb.

To prepare this dish you will need:

• 500 gr. lamb, it is better to take the back part;
• 50 gr. lard or fat;
• 250gr. Luke;
• salt, pepper to taste;
• juice of half a lemon.

Preparation:

1. Chop the meat and lard finely with a knife, as well as the onion. Then mix everything until smooth, add salt, pepper and spices.
2. After this, pour lemon juice into the minced meat and mix it again.
3. Then you need to beat the minced meat to remove excess moisture. This can be done either in a bowl or by throwing it on a board.
4. After this, you can form small lula kebabs. Why take a little minced meat in your hand, knead the flatbread with your other hand and form a lula kebab on a skewer. Press the minced meat firmly onto the skewer and make sure there are no cracks.
5. After this, place the skewers in a frying pan or on the grill.
6. You need to cook for about 12 minutes. To know that the lula kebab is cooked, look: it should have a golden brown crust. Do not overheat the kebab under any circumstances, as the minced meat inside should be juicy.
7. After cooking, serve the kebab on a plate, garnish with herbs and fresh vegetables.

Lula kebab on skewers

This is actually one of the ideal recipes for a picnic. The secret of a successful lula kebab lies in the minced meat, which must certainly be airy and light.

To prepare lula kebab on skewers you will need:

• 1 kg of meat, no matter lamb, beef, pork or a mixture;
• onions – 2 pcs.;
• salt and pepper to taste.

Preparation:

1. To prepare minced meat, wash the meat, cut it into layers, and then chop it finely.
2. Mix the resulting mass with finely chopped onion. Add salt, pepper and spices to the resulting mixture and mix again.
3. After this, pour in the vegetable oil and mix the minced meat again. If the mass is too wet, knock it out.
4. Then take skewers and form oblong patties on them. Be sure to keep a bowl of cool water near the cooking area to dip your hands in so that the minced meat does not stick to them.
5. After this, prepare the grill with coals for cooking lula kebab. Keep in mind that the heat should be a little stronger than for cooking kebabs.
6. Place the skewers on the grill and cook the lula kebab for about 8 minutes. The skewers need to be turned over every minute. It is best to serve kebab with sauce, fresh herbs, and vegetables.

Tips and tricks

1. Minced meat for kebab is made from any meat, for this you can take beef, lamb, pork separately, or you can mix everything. The meat for minced meat must be finely chopped. To do this, cut the meat into thin layers 1-1.5 cm thick, first remove the films and fat. Then take several layers, place them on a cutting board and chop along and then across the grain. You need to chop until you get fine minced meat. If you use a food processor, the meat will produce juice, which will complicate the process of kneading the minced meat.
2. Also, for kebab you need lard, which should be no less than 25% of the total volume of meat. You can take more, but no less, since it is lard that ensures the ideal viscosity of the minced meat. You can use a blender to grind the lard, since the paste-like consistency is important here.
3. Another ingredient is, of course, onion. It is important to consider the amount of onion, because if you overdo it, the onion juice can “liquefy” the minced meat to such a state that kebab simply won’t work. The amount of onion is determined based on the volume of meat: the maximum volume of onion is one third of it. It is better to chop the onion rather than use a meat grinder or food processor as this will preserve the onion juice.
4. Maximum manual grinding of all ingredients ensures that the kebab is prepared in a matter of minutes.
5. Spices for kebab are, of course, a matter of taste, but it is believed that apart from salt and herbs, you don’t need to add anything to the kebab so as not to “clog” the meat taste.
6. Before preparing the kebab, grease your hands with salt water or vegetable oil. The latter forms a delicious golden brown crust on the cutlets; in addition, the minced meat will not stick to your hands, and it will be more convenient to form the sausages.
7. Be sure to keep an eye on the cooking time of the kebab on the fire. Do not overcook the product, as it will become dry and lose its taste. An ideal lula should have a golden brown crust on top and juicy meat inside.