Kebab is one of my favorite Arabian food, just the mention of it now makes me hungry! Searching the net, this is what I have found out...
Kebab is a wide variety of meat dishes originating in Persia (Iran) later on adopted by the Middle East, Turkey and Asia Minor, and now found worldwide. In the Middle East, kebab includes grilled, roasted, and stewed dishes of large or small cuts of meat, or even ground meat. The traditional meat for kebab is lamb but now any kind of meat can be used even fish and other sea foods... and even vegetables!
The origin of kebab may lie in the short supply of cooking fuel in the Near East which made the cooking of large foods difficult. The phrase is essentially Persian in origin and Arabic tradition has it that the dish was invented by medieval Persian soldiers who used their swords to grill meat over open-filled fires. Excavations held in Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini by professor Christos G. Doumas, unearthed stones sets of barbecue for skewers used before the 17th century BCE.
Now every culture has its own version of kebab cooked on a stick or a skewer. From the Persian kebab to the Spanish Pinchos to the Indonesian satay, you can find many a variant. There are innumerable varieties of kebabs to suit every palate, shish kebabs and doner kebabs are among the most popular ones. The manner of cooking them and the spices used in the flavoring of the meat varies between different regions and cultures.
In our family, we have also our own version of Kebab termed as ' Kebab a la Don'. Inshallah, on my next post I can share it with you, but for now I have to convince my husband to share his secret with us.
*An-Nisaa
(source: www.wikipedia.org)
Kebab is a wide variety of meat dishes originating in Persia (Iran) later on adopted by the Middle East, Turkey and Asia Minor, and now found worldwide. In the Middle East, kebab includes grilled, roasted, and stewed dishes of large or small cuts of meat, or even ground meat. The traditional meat for kebab is lamb but now any kind of meat can be used even fish and other sea foods... and even vegetables!
The origin of kebab may lie in the short supply of cooking fuel in the Near East which made the cooking of large foods difficult. The phrase is essentially Persian in origin and Arabic tradition has it that the dish was invented by medieval Persian soldiers who used their swords to grill meat over open-filled fires. Excavations held in Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini by professor Christos G. Doumas, unearthed stones sets of barbecue for skewers used before the 17th century BCE.
Now every culture has its own version of kebab cooked on a stick or a skewer. From the Persian kebab to the Spanish Pinchos to the Indonesian satay, you can find many a variant. There are innumerable varieties of kebabs to suit every palate, shish kebabs and doner kebabs are among the most popular ones. The manner of cooking them and the spices used in the flavoring of the meat varies between different regions and cultures.
In our family, we have also our own version of Kebab termed as ' Kebab a la Don'. Inshallah, on my next post I can share it with you, but for now I have to convince my husband to share his secret with us.
*An-Nisaa
(source: www.wikipedia.org)
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