Easy Gluten-Free Chicken Kebab Recipe
Making a starter for a party? Try this Easy Chicken Kebab Recipe Gluten-Free! With just a pound of ground chicken, aromatic whole spices and herbs you get a scrumptious starter for your party.
How to cook raw ground chicken? And for How Long?
You can cook the raw ground chicken by boiling in water with whole spices to render a flavorful taste for about 8-10 minutes. In this recipe, I cooked one pound of ground chicken, split chickpeas and whole spices with 1 cup of water.
Do you Rinse off Raw Ground Chicken?
I used to rinse off raw chicken with tap water, however, study states that since ground chicken is processed, it is cleaned during the processing itself. Handling raw meat with bare hands is unsafe and the water running off from rinsing may contaminate other food products or surfaces.
How to Make Chicken Kebabs?
What is the binding agent used in Kebabs?
In this Gluten-Free Chicken Kebab recipe I’ve used roasted chickpea flour, egg and a potato for binding. The rich nutty flavor of split chickpeas is a highlight of this recipe. The use of egg and the potato help retain the shape of the kebabs and prevent them from fall apart while broiling or shallow frying on the griddle.
What do we need to Make Chicken Kebabs?
Ingredients:
- Ground Chicken
- Whole Spices: Bay leaf, cinnamon sticks, cardamom, star anise, cloves and red chillies
- Herbs and Veggies: Ginger, garlic, green chillies, onion, lemon
- Binding agents: roasted chickpea flour, egg and potato
- Oil for shallow frying/ coating
Step by Step process
Preparation:
- Soak split chickpeas in hot water for about 30 mins- 1 hour. Chop onions and green chillies and set aside. Microwave the potato for 2 minutes/ until cooked. Peel and set aside.
- Grind ginger garlic and chillies into a paste and set aside. (Pic#1)
- In a pot bring 1 cup of water to a boil with a tsp of salt, and add the ground chicken and whole spices. (Pic#2)
Form the dough:
- Strain the boiled chicken and remove the whole spices (Pic#4) add in chopped onions, ginger garlic paste, egg, grated potato. (Pic#5)
- Add in roasted gram flour and combine to form a dough. (Pic#6)
Cooking the Kebabs: (In the oven or on a griddle)
- Take small portions of the dough and form into small balls. Gently press them down to shape them into kebabs. (Pic#7)
- I greased a muffin tin and put the kebabs into it and then brushed them with oil. (Pic#8)
- Cook in the oven at broil setting for 8 minutes on the first side and then flip and cook for an additional 5 minutes to get a beautiful brown crust. (Pic#9)
- You may place the kebabs on a griddle and shallow fry them for about 7-8 minutes each side. (Pic#10)
Easy Gluten-free Chicken Kebab recipe
Equipment
- 1 Muffin Tin
- 1 Griddle
- 1 Potato masher
Ingredients
- 1 lb Ground Chicken Organic
- ½ cup Split chickpeas
Veggies and herbs
- 1 Large Yellow onion
- 4-5 Garlic cloves
- 1/2 inch Ginger
- 2-3 Green chillies
- 1 Medium Potato
- 1 Lemon
Whole Spice
- 2 Bay Leaf
- 1 Cinnamon stick
- 5-6 Cloves
- 2-3 Cardamom pods
- 1 Star anise
- 5-6 Dry red chillies
Binders
- 1 Egg
- ½ cup Roasted Split Chickpea Flour
- 1-2 tbsp Vegetable Oil
- 1.25 tsp Salt
Instructions
- Soak split chickpea in hot water for about 30 minutes.
- Set 1 cup of water to boil. In the water, add the ground chicken, soaked chana dal, the whole spices and 1/2 tsp salt. Boil for 8 mins.
- Roughly chop onions, green chillies grind ginger and garlic together coarsely in a grinder.
- Pour the contents from the pot into a strainer. Strain the boiled chicken and whole spices and gently squeeze out excess water. Remove the large whole spices like bay leaf, cinnamon sticks, star anise and break the red chillies into smaller pieces.
- Use a potato masher to mash the contents or, If you prefer a smoother texture, put this mixture into a food processor / blender to form a smooth paste.
- In a large mixing bowl add in the chopped onions, green chillies, and the boiled chicken mixture. Add in lemon juice, egg, roasted chickpea flour and grated potato. Add about 1 tbsp of oil to form a dough.
- Take small portions of the dough to form into small balls and then flatten them into kebabs. Place the kebabs in a greased muffin pan and cook them in the oven on broil setting for 8 minutes on 1 side and 5 minutes on the other. You may also shallow fry them on a griddle.
- Enjoy with your favorite chutney/ sauce!
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