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British Indian Restaurant Recipe Requests => British Indian Restaurant Recipe Requests => Topic started by: Mathmos_man on May 07, 2013, 06:23 PM
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Hey
I've never seen this anywhere before on a menu and my wife raves about it. From the website its described as follows
"Handi is a traditional authentic style of cooking, all our Handi's are prepared with chef's special sauce (eek :o) and onions, tomatoes, ginger, garlic and spices"
Shahi Keema - Fresh minced lamb with lentils and scrambled eggs
So - Anyone tried this and anyone have any pointers onto how to re-create it !!!
Math
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Shahi Keema - Fresh minced lamb with lentils and scrambled eggs
So - Anyone tried this and anyone have any pointers onto how to re-create it !!!
It sounds like a de-constructed Shami kebab. :)
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Shahi Keema - Fresh minced lamb with lentils and scrambled eggs
So - Anyone tried this and anyone have any pointers onto how to re-create it !!!
It sounds like a de-constructed Shami kebab. :)
LOL I guess it is - with the some of the lentils turned into a dhal type gravy
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How is it served? Are the main ingredients combined or separate in anyway?
I'd go with a bhuna style dish for the keema adding base as needed, a fairly dry tarka dal and scrambling the eggs with a little onion and green chili. Is that anywhere close?
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So - Anyone tried this and anyone have any pointers onto how to re-create it !!!
I've never heard of it before, but..
A Handi, is a traditional Indian cooking pot and Shahi is a royal title I think comes from Persia. Keema is just mince.
So Royal Mince cooked in a Handi would be the literal translation of that dish.
There's plenty of recipes around for Keema and it's not uncommon for lentils to appear in meat dishes. The one thing I don't understand is where the scrambled eggs comes into any of this, I assume these are on the side and not part of the dish?
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It sounds like a de-constructed Shami kebab. :)
It does!
Shami/Sheek Kebabs tend to have lentils in them, I know some don't but most do, so that's probably where I'd start in trying to reconstruct this recipe - with a Sheek/Shami kebab recipe and compare that to a standard recipe for a Lamb Keema.
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How is it served? Are the main ingredients combined or separate in anyway?
I'd go with a bhuna style dish for the keema adding base as needed, a fairly dry tarka dal and scrambling the eggs with a little onion and green chili. Is that anywhere close?
It's served as a fairly dry curry with the lentils still whole. To me it looks like a wet mix of lentils scrambled egg and keema all bound together with a medium bhuna or Balti style sauce with some bits of bell pepper, onion and green chilli all in. It is all served in the same bowl and as I mentioned the egg is running through it the closest way I can describe it really finely shredded or as if the raw egg has been stirred into the sauce a little like the egg in egg fried rice maybe?
Hope that makes it a little clearer, ill try and get a photo next time we go!
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Its an odd one but i want to eat it! ;D
Cant find any other reference to it (or those combined ingredients) apart from the restaurant you've mentioned.
It does sound South Indian though. :)
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I think you have answered your own question MM. Make a keema curry bhuna or balti style and add pre cooked lentils then whisk an egg and pour it in and stir through.
As Frank says, it does sound a little odd but I would be willing to give it a go. :)
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I think you have answered your own question MM. Make a keema curry bhuna or balti style and add pre cooked lentils then whisk an egg and pour it in and stir through.
As Frank says, it does sound a little odd but I would be willing to give it a go. :)
Like I said I'll try and get a photo and if I do end up trying ill post some pictures of my efforts
;D
Thanks for the support
Math
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Nothing really odd about this dish, or South Indian, when you realise this is from a Punjabi Style Restaurant Chain.
The dish in a Bengali BIR would translate into a similar Mughlai dish, which has many variants using Keema and Egg,
but can't say Iv'e ever noticed Dal included, but like Shahi, just means food fit for a king. (Traditional Roots)
Good luck making this ;)
cheers Chewytikka
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Returned from our last visit with some sneaky photos of the leftovers to illustrate best what I meant. Hopefully it will inspire others to have a stab and i'll post up any attempts I've tried together with the criticism from my missus !! (Ignore the lumps of paneer in it ... She likes it that way)
Again - any comments welcome...
Math
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Well I finally got round to trying this tonight. I followed the suggestions, frying off some lamb mince then simmering it for 20 mins adding to a bhuna sauce recipe, then mixing with some cooked chana dal finally stirring in some whisked egg. Bought a smile to my wife's face so I guess it must have been fairly close.
Thanks all for your help on this :)
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Well done, indeed,Mm! You stuck with it and it looks as if you got where you wanted to be. I must admit that I can't visualise this dish or imagine what it tastes like - even with your photos lol! - but if your missus gives it the thumbs-up then you've won a watch! :-)
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Cheers ! When I finally unpack the computer from the house move I'll try and get my a$$ in gear and type up the whole recipe in case anyone else gets curious :)