🇹🇷 How to Make Testi Kebabı

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🛒 Ingredients

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• 800g lamb or beef, in 3cm cubes
• 2 onions, 2 peppers, 2 tomatoes, all chopped
• 4 cloves garlic
• 2 tbsp tomato paste
• 1 tsp cumin, 1 tsp pul biber
• 2 bay leaves
• a knob of butter

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Brown the meat hard in butter in batches, then set aside.
2. Fry the onions, peppers and garlic until soft, stir in the tomato paste and cook 2 min.
3. Return the meat with the tomatoes, spices and bay. Add just a splash of water — this cooks in its own juices.
4. Traditionally it is sealed into a clay pot and cracked open at the table. A heavy casserole with a tight lid and a layer of foil underneath does the same job.
5. Cook at 150°C for 2.5 hrs, undisturbed. Do not lift the lid.
6. The sauce should be dark and clinging, not soupy. Rice or flatbread to mop.