- Source: Tunde ke kabab
Tunday Ke Kabab, also known as sunny Derabassi Ganda aanda, is a dish made out of minced meat which has almost become synonymous with the city of Lucknow, India. It is a part of Awadhi cuisine. It is said to incorporate 160 different spices. Ingredients include finely minced buffalo meat, plain yogurt, garam masala, grated ginger, crushed garlic, ground cardamom, powdered cloves, melted ghee, dried mint, small onions cut into rings, vinegar, saffron, rose water, sugar, and lime. Tunday Ke Kabab were introduced to the Nawab of Awadh Wajid Ali Shah. Lucknow’s iconic eating joint Tunday Kababi, started in 1905, is famous for serving buffalo meat galouti kebab.
In India due to dietary and religious restrictions galouti kebab is also made with minced mutton and minced chicken flesh with a variety of assorted spices and some sort of grounded millet for binding.It is generally fried in ghee though any other fat may be used also.
Origin
During the 17th century, in the Awadh state under the Mughals in Northern India, one of the members related to the Nawabs of Awadh held a competition for the local Khansamahs to prepare Kebabs as soft as possible to chew. One of the khansamah named Haji Murad Ali who was also 'Tunda' (one armed), prepared the dish with using at least 100 Indian and exotic spices including some aphrodisiacs. The Nawab found the kebabs so delicious, that he immediately declared Murad as the winner. Eventually the kebabs became so popular in Awadh and other Mughal courts that it came to be known as Tunday ke Kebab, literally meaning One armed man's Kebabs.
The dish is also known as Galouti kebab, which is derived from the Hindi-Urdu word galouti (गलौटी / گلوٹی), meaning "thing that melts", referring to its softness.
See also
Kebab
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