Kebabs
I needed to come up with something for this throwdown. I had put off entering too long, with today being the last day to enter.
Then a certain person who shall remain unnamed (silverfinger) went and entered zombie cooked like a brisket earlier today, which is what I wanted to do.:doh: So now, at the last minute, I had to come up with something new.:shock:
I hadn't had a chance to run to the store this weekend, so I found myself in a jam. All of the ideas I kept coming up with I did not have all of the ingredients for.:tsk: Finally I just looked at what was on hand, and tried to come up with something using what was on hand, that would be some sort of Street Food.
What I started putting together was some sort of Mediterranean inspired Kebab thing, but I don't think it can be narrowed to any specific Mediterranean style cuisine. I suppose you could label it from a few different countries, Greek comes to mind, and get away with it. It's basically a type of Kefta, but skirts a few different Mediterranean types in my opinion. It's what I thought I could put together that I thought would be tasty however!:thumb:
I started with some Ground Beef, minced Onion, chopped Garlic, Salt, Pepper, Oregano, Cinnamon and Cumin.
I mixed that up by hand, being rather thorough to let the meat kind of break down like you expect from spiced ground meat things in Mediterranean food. This helped to keep my food processor clean and save some time!:becky: I let the meat mingle with the spices for about an hour.
Then I formed 14 patties about the diameter of a pool ball and almost an inch thick. I put these on skewers alternated with sliced Red Potato that had marinated in an Garlic Olive Oil/Lemon Juice mixture. I put the skewers on my grill, offset with lump charcoal.
Ten minutes later I gave them a flip.
Another ten minutes later I flipped them again, and moved the skewer in back up to the front.
Ten minutes later, they read 155 internal, which was my target, figuring they would carry over to 160 internal. Since this is "Street Food", I figured cooking to rare or medium rare could be a bad idea. Plus, I needed to cook those potatoes.
I didn't have a jar of sauce that seemed suitable, so I had to make a glaze out of Honey with enough Lemon Juice to make it nice and lemony, a little Soy Sauce to give it a little sumtin-sumtin, and a dash of Sriracha sauce for a bit of a kick. I drizzled that over the meat and potatoes until they were covered. At this point they are ready to be carried off by a customer and eaten.:thumb:
They were really good. Some times when you are completely winging a recipe it works out, ad this was definitely one of those times.:hungry: I only made it through one and a half sticks though. They are packed with meat and potatoes.:becky: