{"id":2676,"date":"2020-11-22T20:09:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T01:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=2676"},"modified":"2020-11-22T21:14:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T02:14:31","slug":"beef-kebabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=2676","title":{"rendered":"Beef Kebabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am shocked, shocked I tell you! that my children actually enjoyed this recipe.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure why, perhaps they have given up all hope of enjoying a decent meal from my kitchen and now sullenly submit to my demands that they eat the goddamn food that I paid for and worked hard to put in front of them and it&#8217;s not like you do any chores around&#8230;\u00a0 Ahem.\u00a0 I got a little off track here.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the reason, they ate this one on my first attempt.<\/p>\n<p>These are basically middle-eastern meatballs.\u00a0 You can cut in other things with the meat, serve them in a variety of ways, whatever floats your boat.\u00a0 (I rather enjoyed wrapping them in some naan with rice.)\u00a0 It&#8217;s a meatball.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the spices that make it.<\/p>\n<p>The oven instructions are below.\u00a0 We haven&#8217;t grilled them yet, but they should do great, just use a little grill-sense.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a reasonably easy and fast recipe, ~20 minutes to prep and ~20 minutes to cook.<\/p>\n<p>The recipe plus rice and other sides makes enough for 6-8 people.<\/p>\n<h1>Ingredients<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>2 pounds of ground beef &#8211; don&#8217;t get a lean mix!\u00a0 80-85% seems good\n<ul>\n<li>mix in other ground meats as your fancy takes you, but you need some fats &#8211; don&#8217;t go too lean<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>1 egg<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 cup chopped fresh parsley, or 1\/4 cup dried<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 small onion, diced fine<\/li>\n<li>1 red bell pepper, diced fine<\/li>\n<li>Garlic, 3-4 minced cloves<\/li>\n<li>Paprika, 1 tsp<\/li>\n<li>Salt, 1 tsp<\/li>\n<li>Cumin, 1\/2 tsp<\/li>\n<li>Pepper, 1\/2 tsp<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Directions<\/h1>\n<p>If you plan on skewering the meat, and you&#8217;re using bamboo or wood skewers, soak them in water for ~30 mins.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Preheat oven too 350\u00b0<\/li>\n<li>Mix all the ingredients in a bowl (don&#8217;t overmix)<\/li>\n<li>Form the mix into oblong patties, about kielbasa-thick\n<ul>\n<li>If you&#8217;re skewering, shove in the skewers now or form the patties around the skewers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Bake in the oven for 20 minutes, or grill for ~20 minutes, flipping at least once<\/li>\n<li>For the last couple of minutes turn on the broiler to brown the meat<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Usual disclaimer with ground meat dishes: make sure the internal temp is at least 160\u00b0 before serving.<\/p>\n<p>Serve with some traditional middle-eastern sides, like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Naan bread<\/li>\n<li>Tabbouleh<\/li>\n<li>Cucumbers and cherry tomatoes<\/li>\n<li>Rice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2677\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201122-kebab.jpg\" alt=\"kebab with rice and naan\" width=\"600\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201122-kebab.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20201122-kebab-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am shocked, shocked I tell you! that my children actually enjoyed this recipe.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure why, perhaps they have given up all hope of enjoying a decent meal from my kitchen and now sullenly submit to my demands that they eat the goddamn food that I paid for and worked hard to put &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/?p=2676\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beef Kebabs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37],"tags":[320,40,210,583,582,581,18],"class_list":["post-2676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","tag-dinner","tag-dinners-kids-will-eat","tag-fast-recipe","tag-hamburger","tag-kebab","tag-mediterranean","tag-recipe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o3FW-Ha","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2676"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2682,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions\/2682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jonesling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}