Vegetable Shish Kebab Recipe – Tasty Snack Recipe

By Nandhini Devi

Friday, July 29, 2011, 18:08

A kebab, also known as kabab, is a dish prepared using ground meat that is cooked and seasoned with masala. This mixture is usually wrapped around a skewer and cooked over a charcoal grill. Mainly originating from Persia, this delicious delicacy became popular all over the world.

Though it initially was introduced as a meat dish, the wide-spread consumption led to preparation of kebabs using vegetables, paneer and tofu. They are of various types of kebabs such as shish, kathi, chapli etc. Today we present to you an easy Vegetable Shish Kebab recipe, which you can enjoy having at parties or just snack on some on a rainy evening.

Vegetable Shish Kebab Recipe – Tasty Grilled Snack Recipe:

Ingredients for vegetable shish kebab recipe:

1 medium sized potato
2-3 small carrots
1 bowl of fresh green peas
10 cubes of paneer
2 tablespoons ginger garlic paste
1-2 teaspoon red chilli powder / ground green chilli paste
' teaspoon jeera powder
¼ teaspoon garam masala
2-3 tablespoon cashew nut paste
2-3 tablespoon fresh cream
2-3 tablespoons oil (for frying)
Bread crumbs / besan flour (as a binding agent)
Salt to taste

How to prepare yummy vegetable shish kebab?

Boil all vegetables and mash them into a paste.
Prepare a marinade using 1 teaspoon of ginger-garlic paste, chilli powder / paste, little quantities of other dry masalas and fresh cream.
Soak the paneer in this marinade for about 30 minutes.
While the paneer is soaking, mix the mashed vegetables along with cashew paste, bread crumbs, remaining ginger-garlic paste and all the dry masalas, to make a dough.
Make portions of the above mixture and dab them on to skewers (about 2-3 inches long)
Alternately arrange the vegetables portion and marinated paneer cubes and grill, till everything is well cooked.
Serve hot with pudina chutney or ketchup.