Lula beef kebab

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make a beef kebab? Prepare the minced meat products. Take the beef pulp. If necessary, defrost it by transferring it from the freezer to the bottom shelf of the refrigerator in advance. Wash, dry with paper towels, cut off the films and veins. Cut into small slices. Double-scroll the beef along with the chicken fat through the meat grinder.

2. Step 2:

   

   Wash and dry the greens (parsley, cilantro), peel the onion and garlic. Grind these ingredients in the bowl of a blender or chop them as finely as possible with a knife.

3. Step 3:

   

   In a bowl with minced meat, add the garlic-onion mixture.

4. Step 4:

   

   Add salt and pepper, add the remaining spices (cumin, ground coriander) and knead the minced meat well for 15 minutes. Then assemble the minced meat into a ball.

5. Step 5:

   

   Beat the meat mass on the work surface 10-15 times, at least. To do this, throw a ball of minced meat on the table. Collect the resulting cake again into a ball and continue to throw. Due to the beating, excess air is removed from the minced meat, and it will turn out homogeneous and quite sticky. Put it in the refrigerator for half an hour to marinate.

7. Step 6:

   

   Soak long wooden skewers in water and leave for 20 minutes. After that, they will not burn when frying. Moisten your hands in vegetable oil. Shape the minced meat into thin sausages (diameter 3-4 cm) and put on skewers. Press them to the skewer as tightly as possible so that they do not fall apart. Also try to avoid voids in the stuffing.

8. Step 7:

   

   Heat refined vegetable oil in a frying pan. Lay out skewers with kebabs and fry them on all sides until golden brown. Determine the readiness as follows — pierce the meat with a knife: if the knife enters easily and the light juice flows, then it is ready, if the juice is pink or red, you need to continue cooking.

9. Step 8:

   

   Prepare the pickled onion. How to pickle onions? Peel the onion, cut it into thin half rings. So that when slicing onion juice does not irritate the mucous membrane of the eyes, rinse the onion and knife with cold water. Transfer to a colander, scald with boiling water, and then immediately pour cold water over it, so the onion will retain its crispness. Chop the greens washed and dried with paper napkins, transfer it to the onion, add salt and pepper to taste and pour in 9% table vinegar.

10. Step 9:

    

    Mix very gently, trying not to break the onion. Let it brew for 15 minutes.

11. Step 10:

    

    Serve kebabs hot with pickled onions, ketchup, fresh vegetables and herbs. Bon appetit!