Hello everyone!!!This is Sabaa
inviting you all and myself too for the very first blog of my experiences in my
Matbakh, and for all those who dont know what it means, it is an arabic word for kitchen.
Allow me to please share
with you the reason behind my love for cooking. It initially started with
learning to cook, for the basic reason that every girl should be able to cook to
make her husband and in laws happy, because as
they say 'the way to a man's heart is through his stomach'. I found that i impressed all with my skills but him and well my
hubby is a bit difficult to impress ;)
One day
after trying too hard to impress him with my culinary skills, I angrily asked him to
explain to me his food preferences. At a friends house while reading a newspaper he showed me the
below photograph of a chicken dish which really looked very tempting and asked
me to cook it.
Thus started my quest for the ingredients to
cook this dish and after endless Google searches, I finally got this recipe :)
Steamed chicken kebabs
Ingredients:
2
pieces of chicken breast ( chopped roughly)
1/2
tsp ginger garlic paste
1/2
tsp chilli paste
1/2
cup spring onions ( chopped)
1/2
tsp cumin powder
1
slice of bread ( chopped roughly)
1/4
cup spinach ( chopped)
Sprinkling
of cheese (optional)
1
tbsp oil
Salt
as per taste
Method:
1. In a mixer, grind chicken, ginger
garlic paste, spring onions, cumin powder and bread into a coarse paste.
2. Season it with salt and divide the
entire mixture into two equal portions.
3. Place one portion of this mixture
on a rectangular sheet of aluminium foil and flatten it with the back of a
spoon.
4. Sprinkle spinach and cheese on top
and fold the paste into a thick roll like a swiss roll, wrap this mixture by
folding the foil paper and steam it in a pressure cooker or dim sum steamer for
15 mins.
5. Unwrap the foil and cut the kebabs into thick
circles.
6. Serve on a bed of shredded lettuce , cabbage
and lemon wedges.
My effort below:
