Recipe: Perfect Masoor Dal Seekh Kebabs

Masoor Dal Seekh Kebabs.

You can cook Masoor Dal Seekh Kebabs using 20 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Masoor Dal Seekh Kebabs

1. It's 1 cup of Masoor dal sabut/ whole red lentils.
2. You need 1 inch of ginger roughly chopped.
3. Prepare 8-10 of cloves of garlic peeled.
4. Prepare 1-2 of green chilies.
5. Prepare 1 of jeera.
6. It's 3-4 tbsp of oil.
7. Prepare 2 of cloves/laung.
8. Prepare 4 of green cardamom/ hari Elaichi.
9. It's 1 tsp of salt or to taste.
10. Prepare 1 tsp of Red chilli powder.
11. It's 1& 1/2 of Chaat masala.
12. You need 1/4 cup of Paneer / cottage cheese(grated).
13. It's 3 tbsp of corn flour.
14. Prepare 1/2 slice of Bread ground to make fresh bread crumbs.
15. You need 2 tbsp of lemon juice.
16. You need 3 tbsp of finely chopped onion.
17. You need 3 tbsp of finely chopped capsicum/green bell pepper.
18. It's 2 tbsp of Cream/malai.
19. It's 2 tbsp of ghee.
20. It's 5-6 tbsp of oil for shallow frying.

Masoor Dal Seekh Kebabs step by step

1. Wash and soak the dal for at-least 2 hours. Drain the water and grind the dal along with ginger, garlic, green chilies and jeera to a smooth paste using minimum water..
2. Crush the cloves/ laung and seeds of green cardamom/ hari Elaichi to a fine powder..
3. In a heavy bottomed pan or kadai, heat 3 tbsp oil and add the dal paste. Stir fry the paste for 4-5 minutes till it is dry and doesn’t stick to the pan. It will collect together in a ball when done..
4. Take out in a bowl. Add the powdered cloves and green cardamom, corn flour, paneer, salt, red chilli powder, chaat masala, bread crumbs, chooped onion and capsicum, lemon juice, cream and ghee. Mix well and make a dough out of it..
5. Now divide the mixture into 16-18 portions and make a ball of all the portions. Press down the ball on a squewer or a clean pencil to five it a seekh shape. Carefully remove the kebab from the skewer. Make all the kebabs..
6. At this stage you can store the kebabs in the fridge till serving time..
7. At the time of serving, heat oil on a pan/tawa. Shallow fry the kebabs on medium heat till light brown and crisp. Turn the kebabs only when they are cooked on when side. If you turn too early they will stick and break..
8. Tender, juicy and melt in the mouth kebabs are ready. Serve with green chutney and onion rings..