Chicken Shami Kebabs

I personally have a special place for beef safami kebab but i know  many people who don't eat beef so for them i have a very delicious recipe which never fails.

Source: My Mother
Prep Time: 20 minutes   Cook Time: 2 hrs 

Ingredients:

Chicken with bones/boneless :2 whole chicken(If you do not have a problem with going through a hassle of de-boning chicken when its cooked later on then go with bones because it adds to taste otherwise you can have boneless chicken)

Channa daal/Chick pea lentils: 1 Cup

Onions: 1 

Garlic: whole bulb

Ginger: 2 inch

Potato: 1

Pepper corn: 5-7

Cloves: 5-6

Cinnamon stick: an inch long

Black Cardamom: 1

cumin seeds: 1 tea spoon

Coriander Powder:1 tea spoon

Bay leaf: 1

Salt: 1 tea spoon

Red Chilli Powder: 1 tea spoon

Other Ingredients:

Onions: 2 medium sized

Dhania: 1 cup 

Green Chillies 5-6

Salt: If needed

Black Pepper: if needed

Cornflour: 2 Table spoons

Eggs: 1

Method:

Soak Chana daal for half an hour.

Grind pepper corns, cloves,black cardamom, cinnamon stick, bay leaf, cumin seeds.Now put chicken, ground garam masala, salt,red chilli powder, ginger and garlic paste,sliced onion, potato and 3 cups of water.

Bring the water down to boil and lower down the heat. Keep a check on chicken because it does not take much time to tender where as daal will.Use more water only if you needed.

Skip next step if you are using boneless chicken.

Take chicken pieces out of the pan and put them on the plate, let them cool down a bit and start de-boning chicken, make sure there is no bone attached. once done put boneless chicken back in the pan, by the time daal will also be cooked if not give it some more time.

When chana daal is cooked, take the lid off. Increase the heat to medium and cook on high flame so that water gets evaporated fully. There should not be any moisture left otherwise you wont be able to make patty.(you can also check salt and chilli status at this point and adjust according to your own taste here because mixture is hot and salt and red chilli powder will be easily dissolved).

Now It's time to use your arm strength to mash up the mixture with the help of potato masher or you can simply use blender to make the mixture smooth.

Add chopped onions, coriander and corn flour ,mix well. you can check salt and pepper by frying a small kebab and adjust according to your taste).You can either add egg in the mixture or coat the kebabs with beaten egg before frying.(i have coated kebabs with egg before frying in the picture).

Make round shaped kebabs and freeze or fry them. Serve it with Green chutney.

Notes:

• Always adjust salt and pepper according to your own taste.
• If the mixture feels runny and you are not able to make kebabs then you can add a slice of bread or more cornflour.