Chicken kebab recipe | Chicken kabab recipe

Chicken kebab recipe – Make the best delicious, soft, succulent & flavorful chicken kababs at home. Kabab or kebab is a piece of food, mostly meat grilled over charcoal fire. There are so many kabab varieties out there which are very popular in the restaurants and takeaways. Shami kababs, seekh kababs, galouti kabab, reshmi kababs, doner kebab are some of the most popular ones.

This post will help you to make the easiest, delicious, juicy & soft yogurt marinated spicy kababs which make a great appetizer. These can also be served as a side with some biryani, pulao or in wraps, sandwiches and salads too.

These taste best when served with a good mint raita chutney or kebab chutney. You can also serve this with green chutney.

These chicken kebab can be grilled in a Oven, on charcoal fire or on a grill pan on the stove. You may also like veg hara bhara kabab and veg seekh kebab.

If you do not own a oven simply deep fry them and make fried chicken kababs.

For more chicken recipes, you may like to check
Shami kabab
Reshmi kebab
Chicken Shawarma recipe
Tandoori chicken
Chicken tikka

Preparation

1. First prepare marinade with hung curd or greek yogurt. Add it to a mixing bowl along with lemon juice, ginger garlic paste, turmeric, chilli powder, salt, oil and garam masala.

You can refer this post to make hung curd. I have used this garam masala and olive oil. You can use any oil including sesame oil.

My ginger garlic paste has turmeric in it, so I did not add any more. I prefer to use onion for most grilled foods as they lend a unique aroma when they are charred.

2. Add boneless chicken as well to a bowl. Make sure there is no water. Excess moisture either in the chicken or yogurt is going to drip off from the chicken. So this doesn’t make chicken kebab so good.

3. Marinate the chicken with the prepared marinade. Add the onions as well.

4. Next marinate and refrigerate over night or least for 4 hours. The longer they soak up in the marinade the more tender and delicious they taste.

How to make chicken kabab

5. When you are ready to grill them in the oven. Firstly heat the oven to 240 C for at least 15 to 20 mins. Next rinse the skewers and put them on alternately chicken and onion.

6. Next grill the chicken kebab for 15 to 20 mins and flip them. Grill for another 10 to 15 mins. The last 5 mins I prefer to move the tray to the top rack. At this stage you can also brush the kababs with little butter or oil. I have not done it.

The onions will char and impart a good flavor when moved to the top rack. The difference in the color is due to the lighting. They turn out red in color if you use a good chili powder.

Serve chicken kebab hot with mint chutney or mint yogurt raita or green chutney.

Tips to make chicken kabab

• Cut the chicken to equal sized pieces for even grilling and browning.
• Adjust the spice levels to suit your taste. The recipe is for moderately spicy chicken kebabs.
• Yogurt is the key ingredient that tenderizes the chicken.
• To skip yogurt, brine the chicken in buttermilk for at least 4 hours. Drain the chicken and then rub the spice powders well and rest for 30 mins before grilling.
• Feel free to use whatever spice powder you have in hand.
• Tandoori masala can also be used instead of garam masala. Adjust the quantity to suit your taste.

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