Veg Shami Kabab ~ Desi Fusion Twist

Shami kabab is usually made with minced meat and spices. Baked or cooked either in tandoor or on a frying pan.

But in vegetarian version, we replace meat with soya chunks or soya granuals. Melts in your mouth, giving your taste buds a ride to heaven.

Ingredients:

Chana dal : 1/2 cup

Soya chunks : 1/2 cup

Aloo : diced 1/4 cup

Mint leaves : hand full of leaves chopped

Coriander leaves : 1 tblspn leaves chopped

Green Chillies: 2, thinly sliced.

Garam Masala Powder: 1 tspn

Onion seeds : 1/2 tspn

Shajeera : 1/2 tspn

Salt : As per your taste.

Red chili powder : 1.5 tspn or as per your taste.

Corn Flour : 1/2 tblpsn.

Maida : 1/2 tblspn.

Method:

Soak chana dal for 1 hr and cook them in 1.5 cup of water.
Do not over cook them into a paste.

Once chana dal is cooked strain water through a sieve. Save water into a bowl. Soak soya granules in same water.

Cook diced aloo and strain water.
Once soya granules become soft and spongy strain water. Let it sit at room temperature for 1/2 hr. This helps it to become bit dry.

Take a blender, add chana dal, soya granules, aloo, coriander leaves, green chilies, mint leaves and grind them into a smooth dough like consistency.
Transfer this in to a bowl.

Add ginger garlic paste, red chilly powder, salt, garam masala powder, diced onions maida and corn flour.
In a mortar add roasted onions seeds and shajeera. Roughly ground them with pestle.

Add it to kabab mixture and mix all the ingredients and let it rest in fridge for half an hour to 45 mins.
Once kabab mixture is chilled take it out of fridge and mold them into kababs.

Now on a medium flame, place a frying pan and add oil
Once oil reaches medium temperature, place kababs into the pan.
Let it fry for 3 to 4 mins or until one side of kabab is golden brown. Flip it to other side and let it fry on other side.

Once they are fried on both the sides, transfer them into serving plate and serve them hot with either green chutney or tomato sauce and a lemon wedge.