Date Kebab Recipe (Hurma Kebabı)
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Hello friends, today we will share with you a recipe for date kebab. Hurma kebab is a dish from the Ottoman palace cuisine. Since its appearance and shape are similar to dates, this dish is called date kebab. It is obvious that the Ottoman Empire, which had ruled for almost 700 years, had a wide culinary culture. If we move on to the palace and kitchen system, it would be healthier to briefly touch on the parts of the palace kitchen instead of summarizing every part of the palace kitchen. This place called Matbah-ı Âmire was built during the reign of Fatih Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror in 1475-1478. Meals belonging to the sultan were prepared in the kushane kitchen, meals for the viziers of the council and the people of the harem were prepared in the special kitchen, and for the high-level women of the harem, in the Valide Sultan Kitchen.
In the Ottoman Empire, mutton was preferred more than beef. It is even known that a self-developed statesman complained that his stomach was upset due to the constant use of beef in kebab shops in the Ottoman Empire. With the latest research, it has been learned that goats and kids were also consumed in the Ottoman Empire. Chicken meat dishes are also not preferred, but it is a food consumed in the summer months. For a long time, it was believed that fish was consumed very little by the Ottomans, but as a result of the latest research on Evliya Çelebi, the Ottomans consumed fish in considerable quantities. Even II. There are also studies that show that Mahmut especially loves swordfish.
Date Kebab Recipe (Hurma Kebabı)
Ingredients
- 1 kg minced meat
- 200 gram onion (2 medium onions, finely chopped)
- salt
- black pepper (fresh)
- 1/2 teaspoon cardamon
- 1 bunch mint
- 1 bunch parsley
Instructions
- For the date Kebab recipe, first put the minced meat in a bowl.
- Onion, salt. Prepare a meatball paste by mixing it with pepper, cinnamon, cardamom, finely chopped mint and parsley and kneading well.
- Tear off date-sized pieces from the mortar you prepared. Shape it and wrap it in tallow and string on skewers.
- Line and cook the skewers on the grill, you can also bake them in the oven.
- Take the cooked meatballs off the skewer and serve.
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Bon Appetit !
I hope you liked our recipe for today. Ottoman palace cuisine is a very large and well-established cuisine as we have mentioned before. Hurma kebab dish has become an exquisite dish with the meeting of meat and spices. The balance of use of spices and meat in Ottoman cuisine is extraordinary. This balance has been carried from the past to the present. Do not forget this detail while trying these dishes. Date kebab is one of the delicious and different types of kebab. We are sure you will love the taste. In the comments, you can indicate whether you like this kebab or not. If there are recipes you want us to make, you can specify. Let’s see in the next recipe.
