Street Food: Chapli Kebabs

 

Chapli Kebabs are originally from Pakistan and are fried in huge pans of oil on the streets of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Often served with rice or salad but on the street more often in a naan or bread bun. We've eaten them before as part of a mixed starter in an Indian restaurant but it'll be nice to try them homemade.

Ingredients:

• 1 egg
• 500g ground beef
• 1 tomato
• 1 red onion
• ¼ cup chopped cilantro
• 2 teaspoons ginger-garlic paste
• 2 teaspoons coriander
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ¾ teaspoon ground cumin
• ¾ teaspoon ground cayenne pepper

Scramble the egg then add it to a bowl with all the other ingredients. Finely dice the tomato and onion.

Using your hand, mix everything until it's well combined. 

Wet your hands and form the mix into flat patties. It makes 8 good sized rounds.

Heat a couple of inches of oil in a frying pan and cook in batches until they are all dark brown. I always struggle with keeping fried patties flat, they always end up thicker!

Serve with salad, rice, chutney or raita in bread or not, it's up to you. We had ours in bread buns with salad and raita.

Mmm, these were deliciously spicy and went well with some cooling raita. The coriander leaves along with the spices gave them that unmistakably warming flavour of Chapli Kebabs we've had before. We really enjoyed having them as burgers with the crunch of the salad and moisture of the raita, so I can recommend that combination if you fancy trying them. A nice easy recipe that gives a lot of joy to your tastebuds.