How to Make Shami Kebab | Simple and Traditional | Cooking in Pakistan With Chef Hussain

How to Make an Authentic Shami Kebab | Simple and Traditional | Cooking in Pakistan With Chef Hussain
We've recently rediscovered some videos from Chef Hussain's visit to Pakistan in 2020, so we thought we'd share them with you. Better late than never!
As part of our origins series, I visited my ancestor's village Jallo Chak, which is near the city of Dina in the district of Jhelum. My family have lived in the village for generations, starting with my great grandfather who moved there over 150 years ago. My ancestors were farmers, and local hotel owners that served meals, so food has always been a part of my family life when I was growing up.
It was good to catch up with everyone from the village (I hadn't been back since 2016) and spend some well-needed time with my family. It was nice to see all the community changes, more hospitality, good food, and culture growth, it’s a cool calm place, lots of greenery, fields away from the city's hustle and bustle.
🍛 What is Shami Kebab or Kabab?
The story goes that Shami Kebabs were originally created by a cook for an old Nawab who had no teeth, as the kebab was so soft he didn’t need to chew it. Whether you believe that or not, these kebabs originated from somewhere on the Indian subcontinent and remain a popular food in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh till this day. There are a few different spins on Shami Kebabs, with some using beef mince, others using lamb and some, like chef Hussain, using goat meat.
🥗 Are Shami Kebabs Healthy?
Shami kebabs are healthy as part of a balanced diet. Our recipe uses red meat which can be unhealthy if eaten in excess, but on its own is a great source of protein and iron. Our recipe also only shallow fries our Shami kebab, so it's not soaking up too much excess oil and fat.
🛒 Ingredients
- 300g of goat or lamb mince
- 2 finely diced onions
- 1 finely diced tomato
- 1 tablespoon of garlic paste
- 1 tablespoon of ginger paste
- 1 tablespoon of salt or to taste
- 2 teaspoons of chilli powder
- ½ teaspoon of turmeric powder
- ½ teaspoon of whole cumin
- 1 teaspoon of coriander powder
- A couple of pinches of coriander
- Chopped green chillies (optional)
- 1 egg
- 10g of flour
- Drizzle of oil
📖 Recipe:
1) To start, add 300g of goat or lamb mince to a large mixing bowl.
2) Add 2 whole finely diced onions and 1 whole finely diced tomato.
3) Add 1 tablespoon of garlic paste and 1 tablespoon of ginger paste.
4) Add 1 tablespoon of salt or to your taste.
5) Add 2 teaspoons of chilli powder or more if you like it spicy!
6) Add ½ teaspoon of turmeric powder, ½ teaspoon of whole cumin and 1 teaspoon of coriander powder.
7) Add a couple of pinches of coriander leaves.
8) You can add some diced green chillies if you choose.
9) Add 1 egg and around 10g of four to bond the meat.
10) Knead all of this into the meat, like you would knead bread. Make sure it’s all mixed in well.
11) Let the meat rest for 30 minutes.
12) Pour a drizzle of oil into the pan.
13) Form the patties in your hand by patting and shaping the meat into a burger shape.
14) Add the patties to the pan gently.
15) Make sure your patties cook all the way through and turn them gently so they don’t break.
16) They’re ready to eat so plate them up and serve with some mint chutney!
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[@waynejarrell1]

What a wonderful video, fascinating, calming, relaxing and entertaining at the same time. Thank you for uploading and showing us the recipe.

[@KeithWilliamMacHendry]

Chef Hussain is a braw lad. 💙

[@jonathanmcroberts8549]

Chalo Pakistan!

[@jepolch]

Chef, thanks for taking time out from visiting your home village to share another recipe with us. I love chapli kebab and I will make it from your recipe. Also, thanks for the overview of your beautiful village. Love from USA.

[@thebaltibrothers2574]

Joe, Greatly appreciate your kind comments always, so encouraging for us all, its an honour to share Mums recipes with everyone through our channel, hope you enjoy the end results, please do let us know the results 🙏😊

[@stefanmacdonaldbrown999]

Another brilliant display of simple delicious food fro you guys…. love the background music too.👍🏻

[@SajidHussain-lj5mr]

Eye lyke Parkistarn kuisine wery mutch 👍

[@paulpark8571]

Looks really good.. I like these flavours

[@goathead53]

Fantastic video and your village looks great

[@kitchentruckbys7498]

MashaAllah so amazing recipe thanks for sharing 👍👌😋

[@ayesharashid7473]

Amazing video love this recipe 😍

[@jeremiechicoine3011]

i am making this tonight and i would like to thank you so much ; i have made numerous of your recipes and my family always enjoyed them, please keep on sharing your knowledge is a source of joy at the table.

[@gwai76]

I shall be making these at the weekend 👏🏻

[@ynothump2566]

Love and respect to you and your team and family Hussain ❤ Keep up the great instruction, videos and info 🙏

[@caseybell8861]

Good to see you back in Pakistan chef Hussain

[@renisrecipes]

So delicious and mouth-watering thanks for sharing this recipe my friend stay connected 👏👍

[@robina9185]

Delicious. Nice video and the background music is very relaxing.

[@bdmomthai]

17 👍done nice and tasty racipe and amazing Sharing full time watching great preparation like this 🌟👍

[@superamario6464]

Ah! Cooking in Pakistan! Bullai vai bullai! Mera dil khush keeta, Chef :)

[@thebaltibrothers2574]

Tusi khush, asi wi khush sir g😊

[@user-sb8fn8eg3l]

excellent ...and with naan bread ! this will be a family staple. Bravo Chef!

[@salmapal7131]

I have memories of a cousin in Lahore making Shami Kebabs on the BBQ. They’re just delicious. This is a very stylish and thoughtful KZbin presentation by the Balti Brothers.

[@alansteely4638]

Great video! Thanks!!

[@Roddersville]

Thank you Hussain…they look delicious 😋👍🏻😁🙏🏻

[@gilliandidierserre4190]

A wonderful delicious recipe..watching from Canada👍

[@tommurphy4094]

They look fab. All the ingredients were so fresh. I will definitely be making some for my friend when he visits from England next month. Shami kebabs are his favourite starter from this type of cuisine.

[@drummerh]

Thanks for taking the time to show us this, they look lovely!

[@thebaltibrothers2574]

You're welcome! Hope you enjoy 😄

[@ahmedsyed3436]

Great video. I’ll make these next weekend

[@ahmedsyed3436]

Wow, it worked well. I used chicken. Thank you for this recipe.

[@Hammertime054]

Been looking for a proper recipe for this Mr Hussain, brilliant and thanks👍👍👍

[@MillhouseSpeaks]

Kofta recipe next!

[@thebaltibrothers2574]

In the pipeline 😊😋

[@saudg81]

Love the recipe. Even outdid the mrs

[@robbeard6929]

Stay safe mate and your family, love to your mam.

[@alexandrastevens8892]

As usual a very appetising food 😋 can't wait to try it, your aerial shots of your town look beautiful, I hope you are enjoying your holiday and thank you for taking the time to give us something to cook and enjoy

[@roberthall5573]

I will give these a try this week. Tried all your other recipes and they are all fantastic.

[@thebaltibrothers2574]

Thank you! We appreciate your kind words 🙏

[@petegalloway2466]

Superb, thanks 🙏🏻 This is like a food meditation tutorial. Everything works so well, the laid back presentation style, the setting and the music. Chilled out hot food ☺️

[@thebaltibrothers2574]

Good to hear Pete, so pleased to hear you enjoyed the video and All the Teams efforts in making them, we all Greatly appreciate your kind words 🙏😊

[@petegalloway2466]

@@thebaltibrothers2574 my pleasure 🙏🏻 ☺️

[@westfishos4276]

wa alaikum as salam Hussain and may all the blessings of Allah be upon you and your family. thanks for sharing this wonderful simple recipe with all of us and also some of the beauty and richness of your families culture and home. keep the recipes coming and best wishes from perth australia

[@thebaltibrothers2574]

Allah Humma Aameen, Greatly appreciate your kind words and prayers. So good to hear you are enjoying our recipes, more on there way for you to enjoy 🤲would love to visit Australia 👌😊

[@rossanderton3424]

I made these but I used minced beef and they worked really well, fabulous recipe!

[@thebaltibrothers2574]

Wow that's excellent to hear, Thank you so much for your great feedback 🙏

[@sailingscotland5114]

I always enjoy watching you cook and you manage to demystify how to cook really good food. Thank you for sharing this dish from your home in Pakistan. Happy new year to you and the family.

[@thebaltibrothers2574]

Thank you 🙏

[@harjitparihar]

Hello sir i like your videos very simple and plain method of cooking tasty food ...can you share a video how to cook chicken or goat biryani please please

[@wmdavies02]

Can I please come and visit you at your mum's house and eat like a king, brilliant cooking!

[@lilyshambles5644]

Love all your stuff but no lentils?

[@thebaltibrothers2574]

In the pipeline Lilly, soon you will see a video 😀

[@seanthornton7367]

Love your videos, have learned a lot, keep making them please..can I ask, what kind of salt do you use in cooking..?

[@thebaltibrothers2574]

Thank you so much, we use regular cooking salt and in some recipes we also use pink salt

[@npdoughty1405]

Hi Mate I just got some Kashmiri chili powder delivered from amazon (I've been using normal chili powder up until now). It's the old India brand - I will of course buy yours when it becomes available. I just wanted to check with you, is Kashmiri chili powder supposed to taste a lot more bitter than regular chili powder? I just tasted some on my finger and it has a bitter taste. I'm just querying if that is normal or if I just bought a poorer quality product.

[@shafiquemohammed8476]

Kashmiri chilli is more to give colour to curries then heat as it’s a very mild form chilli powder and it shouldn’t be more bitter then regular chilli

[@lerrynhawke3375]

Miss the vids!

[@neelam507]

👌👌👌👌👌👍⭐️🙏🇬🇧

[@julianeaston8607]

I love your easy going very informative content, but would find it helpful if you could mention how many portions/people a quantity you are cooking, will serve. On the downside its a pity I live closer to Heathrow than Rishton, as I would certainly be a regular client otherwise.

[@chaddamp2894]

wonder presentation x could we use chicken mince for this recipe?

[@thebaltibrothers2574]

Thank you, Yes of course you can 😊

[@mehere3013]

where did u get the burner

[@raftonpounder6696]

Beautiful. Can they be cooked in the oven?

[@thebaltibrothers2574]

Thank you, yes you can cook in the oven, have never tried them my self. Please do let us know the results 😊

[@raftonpounder6696]

@@thebaltibrothers2574Thank you. I will indeed.

[@brianmclaughlin1008]

Can I use chicken pork 😋 looks really nice 👌 and spicys

[@bafou626]

Can i use minced pork as well

[@npdoughty1405]

7:05 - I say that to the Mrs all the time but she doesn't listen 😖

[@rob4433]

Making this NOW... I'm trying half measurements first. The cost of meat is SOOO expensive now, I want to make sure it comes out ok before i share with my friends.. anyone making half portion as well, use the full 10g of flour (or more) though

[@rob4433]

Ok! This came out really good! The flavors and spices are just amazing. I used lamb for this, I'm going to try with veal too. However, the onion divided me and my wife. Watching how this was made I noted that the onion was sliced quite corse. My wife liked it, but I would have preferred fine. My friends, please can you do another recipe 🙏

[@christopherfrancis3949]

Sir that didn't look like shammie kebab there was no channa dal in it so it was Chapple kabab for shammie kabab you have to boil the dal with mezt

[@muhammadw89]

Ye they are chapli kababs. But in these balti houses in uk you always get fooled with what I call fake dishes tbh.

[@crazyboy1156.]

Assalam sir u r cheif and u don't know the difference between shami kabab and chapli kabab .u prepare Chapli kabab Shami is totally different .in shami we add chana daal

[@muhammadw89]

Sorry but this ain’t shami kababs you titled it wrong or you probably don’t know what shami kanas are. The one you are making is kind of chapli kabab. Shami kababs recipe is totally different.

[@lucytupper69]

Surely East End Foods have a big foot in the market regarding spices. It will take a monumental effort to overtake them! My advice is don’t waste your money. Stick to your restaurant and your cooking vids.

[@johnjeff5112]

Sorry, but thats not a shami kebab