Shish kebab is a very popular dish that Russians love to cook outdoors. But weather conditions do not always allow this. Therefore, the oven comes to the rescue, in which you can cook a wonderful barbecue and have a picnic on the balcony even in the strongest blizzards.
Preparation of the main ingredients
We can say with confidence that shish kebab is one of the simplest, most delicious and favorite dishes of Russians. You can cook it anywhere: in nature, in the country, or right at home, then such a shish kebab is called lazy.
It is prepared in the oven using a slightly different technology. First of all, in order to bake a kebab in the oven and have a picnic right on the balcony, you will need to stock up on meat. You can take any meat: pork, beef or lamb.
Before you start cooking directly, the meat must be beaten off and cut into small pieces of the same size. It is thoroughly cleansed of tendons, skin and other things. The next step is pickling.
The meat is placed in a container and onions are rubbed into it. To marinate it, you need to pepper, salt, add various spices to taste and, of course, lemon juice and vinegar. The meat is left to marinate for about 1 to 2 hours in this state. To bake a kebab in the oven, in addition to meat, you will definitely need lard.
The bacon is cut into small slices; when strung on a skewer, it will alternate with meat and onions. In addition, you can use vegetables. The next step is to string the meat and lard onto a skewer for subsequent frying. There must be fat along the edges of the skewer.
Baking a kebab
After the meat is strung, they directly begin to bake the kebab. But before that, in about half an hour, you will need to preheat the oven, since it is in it that this dish will be prepared. The optimum temperature is 250 ° C. You will need to fry the kebab on the wire rack.
There will be a baking sheet under it, on which you will first need to put pieces of bacon. The baking sheet is wrapped in foil, on which a small amount of bacon is placed. It will be needed in order to determine the readiness of the kebab and so that it smells like a haze. After that, a grate is placed over the baking sheet, and skewers with kebabs are placed on it.
As you cook, you will need to check the readiness of the dish more than once. Baking in the oven is uneven, that is, the top is fried first, and then the bottom. After the top is browned, you need to turn the kebab over to the opposite side. After some time, the bacon on the baking sheet will begin to melt and give off smoke, this is the first sign that the kebab is almost ready.
To give it more flavor, it is recommended to prepare a sauce from fresh tomatoes with the addition of tomato paste in advance. The kebab is ready. Thus, we can conclude that it is very easy to bake a kebab in the oven, for this you do not need to have large skewers and make a fire. This option is great for a picnic in an apartment or a large house.
