Lyulya-kebab meatballs differ in that only meat, onions and spices are used to make it, eggs and bread are not included in the composition of the dish.
If you want to diversify your menu, to cook something unusual from your favorite minced meat, then feel free to use our carefully selected proven recipes for cooking chicken lyula-kebab.
Chicken lula kebab - general principles
Traditionally, the dish was prepared from fatty lamb, but in the form of popularity over time, the recipe of the classic kebab changed, and today you can find many options for its preparation: pork, beef, poultry. A special love from housewives was won by chicken kebab: firstly, chicken meat is much cheaper than other types of meat, secondly, chicken is cooked faster, thirdly, the poultry dish is low-calorie.
Chicken process: wash, peel, separate the fillet from the bones, after the pulp is crushed. In the mince put onions cut into small cubes, a variety of spices, garlic, herbs. From greens and spices mainly use basil, cilantro, parsley, hops-suneli, oregano, pepper.
Ready minced meat is kneaded for a long time and thoroughly, which allows the meat mass to become more plastic, and this ensures that the kebab does not fall apart during roasting or baking. Starch can become a binder, adding eggs is acceptable.
The kebab in its classic recipe is cooked by roasting over coals, but this does not mean that this dish cannot be cooked at home. The same tasty and juicy is a chicken kebab made in a frying pan, in an oven, in a slow cooker, and even in an electric BBQ grill.
Hot kebab served with fresh vegetables, homemade lavash and various sauces. Also with lula kebab, baked vegetables, mushrooms, rice are perfectly combined.
1. Chicken kebab on the grill
Ingredients: • 6 large chicken legs;
• 2 bulbs;
• garlic - 8 cloves;
• fresh basil - 2 sprigs;
• seasoning zira, cilantro powder - 10 g;
• 4 eggs;
• 6% acetic acid - 30 ml;
• a pinch of salt and black pepper powder.
Preparation:
1. We cut the thawed thighs: cut the bones, separate the skin. Scroll through the meat through the meat grinder.
2. We break eggs into a cup and whisk with a whisk, pour in the stuffing.
3. Also add minced greens of cilantro and basil, minced cloves of garlic squeezed through the garlic, onions, cut into fine crumbs, add seasoning, salt, pepper, mix everything thoroughly, beating it lightly on the table.
4. Mince wrapped in food film and put in the fridge for 60 minutes.
5. We lay down the minced meat moistened in warm water into several small parts, each formed into skewers in the form of elongated meatballs.
6. Put the skewer on the hot grill, fry lula kebab over hot coals.
7. When serving, lay Lyulya kebab on a flat plate with sliced tomatoes and cucumbers, decorate with parsley leaves.
2. Chicken kebab baked in the oven
Ingredients:
• Chicken fillet - a little less than a kilogram;
• 2 bulbs;
• 30 g of starch;
• a piece of butter;
• 100 g Dutch cheese;
• greens of basil and parsley - 4 branches each;
• oregano in powder, allspice, salt - 30 g each;
• green onions - 1 bunch.
Preparation:
1. Cleaned the skin and fatty layers of chicken fillet washed, skipped through a meat grinder.
2. In the prepared stuffing, add a piece of butter, chopped onion with a knife, grated cheese, starch, oregano, chopped green basil and parsley, salt, pepper, mix everything well, beat off a little.
3. We moisten hands in warm water, take a little stuffing on a palm, roll a ball, form an elongated sausage from it, string it on wooden skewers.
4. Put all the sausages on a frying sheet smeared with sunflower oil, put in a hot oven and bake at a moderate temperature for a little less than half an hour. 5. When serving, lay out the kebab on the edges of the flat plate, in the middle put the onion half rings, sprinkle with chopped green onions.
3. Chicken kebab with bell pepper
Ingredients:
• slightly less than a kilogram of minced chicken;
• 1 pod of sweet pepper;
• onion head;
• cilantro and parsley - 3 branches each;
• salt, barbecue seasoning, sweet pepper paprika, dry ginger, hops-suneli - 20 g each;
• starch - pinch.
Preparation:
1. Mix the stuffing with chopped onion, chopped into small cubes of sweet pepper, add seasoning, ginger, chopped cilantro and basil, pour in a little salt, pepper, stir well.
2. We sprinkle a pinch of starch so that the stuffing is more plastic and the lula kebab does not fall apart during the heat treatment, mix it again, at the same time beat it off a little for 3-5 minutes.
3. Preheat the oven beforehand, spread parchment paper on a baking sheet, lubricate with oil.
4. String minced meat on wooden long sticks with wet hands, form lula-kebab.
5. Put the semi-finished products on a baking sheet and put in the oven, bake for half an hour.
6. After 15 minutes, open the oven and turn the sticks over so that the kebab is baked on all sides.
7. Put the baked lula kebab on a flat plate, put fresh vegetables in the middle, cut into slices, put spicy ketchup in a separate bowl and a loaf of freshly flat bread.
4. Homemade chicken kebab with sauce
Ingredients:
• chicken breast - 2 pcs .;
• A couple of garlic cloves;
• sweet pepper pod;
• a small piece of Dutch cheese;
• 1 egg;
• a pinch of black pepper and salt;
• some vegetable oil.
For decoration:
• 5 cherry tomatoes;
• parsley, dill - 6 branches each.
For the sauce:
• half a glass of red wine and any cream;
• ginger, coriander in dry form, salt, black pepper - by pinch.
Preparation:
1. My sweet pepper, cut the stem, remove the seeds, cut into small cubes.
2. Egg boil hard-boiled, cut into cubes, cheese, also cut into cubes. Mix both ingredients with pepper. 3. Add three chopped sprigs of dill and parsley, salt, pepper, squeeze garlic through the garlic.
4. Separate the flesh from the chicken breasts, cut the fillet into small pieces, scroll through the meat grinder.
5. In the stuffing lay all the previously prepared ingredients, mix well.
6. Pour into minced vegetable oil. We interfere.
7. We roll the ball with wet hands, flatten it a little, put a bamboo skewer in the middle of the resulting flatbread and cover it with the edges of minced meat, form a lyula-kebab in the form of an elongated patty.
8. Formed lula kebab, put on a baking sheet, put in a hot oven and bake a little less than half an hour.
9. While the kebabs are baking, prepare the sauce: pour wine into a small metal pan, boil a little and pour cream, add ginger, coriander and simmer until thick.
10. Put the baked lula kebab on a plate covered with pita bread, put the washed cherry tomatoes next to it, put the sauce in a separate bowl.
5. Fast chicken kebab
Ingredients:
• 2 kilograms of chicken meat;
• a pair of onions;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• allspice, salt, seasoning for meat - 30 g;
• parsley leaves - 4 pcs.
Preparation:
1. Cut the flesh of the chicken into small cubes, mix it with chopped onion and squeezed garlic.
2. Chop parsley leaves and pour into minced meat, add seasoning, add some salt, pepper, mix well.
3. Wrap the mass in the film and put in the refrigerator for 20-40 minutes.
4. We make small elongated chops from mincemeat, string them on bamboo sticks, put them on a sheet and put them in a hot oven for 20 minutes.
5. In the process of baking, periodically open the oven and turn over the lula kebab.
6. We put the ready-made kebab on a flat dish, next to it is nicely laid slices of tomatoes, cucumbers and bell pepper circles, sprinkle with finely chopped parsley, put sharp ketchup in a bowl.
6. Kebab from chicken without skewers in a frying pan
Ingredients:
• a small cup of minced chicken;
• 2 onions;
• garlic - the floor of the head;
• a pinch of salt and allspice powder;
• dill - 3 twigs;
• half a teaspoon of starch;
• some cooking oil.
Preparation:
1. Mix the stuffing with finely chopped onion, garlic, add starch, sprinkle black pepper, add some salt, stir well, slightly beat off on the table.
2. We moisten hands in water, we take 150 g of stuffing on a palm, we form a long sausage.
3. We spread the prepared semi-finished products on a hot-frying pan with oil, fry on high heat until crusty.
4. Slightly reduce the heat and wait ten minutes until ready.
5. When serving lula-kebab, put on a flat plate, next lay out the chopped onion head, sprinkle with dill, pour with ketchup.
Chicken kebab - tricks and useful tips
• Minced kebab for lula kebab is made from coarsely rolled or minced minced meat, minced meat is more suitable for meatballs and zraz.
• If you decide to cook kebabs on wooden skewers, then they should be soaked in advance for an hour or half an hour in cold water, so they definitely will not burn you during frying or baking.
• When cooking kebabs on the grill, remember that it is better not to flood the fire with water and put it out with a fan. The water cools the coals, and the dish may not fry.
• The optimal time for cooking kebab on the grill is 10-12 minutes, in the pan - 15-20 minutes, in the oven - from 20 minutes to half an hour. In any case, it is important not to forget to turn the kebab from side to side.
