Kathal shammi kabab

Kathal Sammi Kabab

Sammi kabab is a popular snack dish of Indian sub continent. It is a non vegetarian dish normally used meat or fish. It is a variety of kabab where meat is cooked with chik peas and whole spices and later made patties and shallow fried on tawa. It is a common and popular snack item in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. 

I made a vegetarian version of this Sammi Kabab, Raw Jack Fruit or Kathal ki Sammi Kabab. I used kathal instead of meat. My parents are vegetarian. They heard the name of Sammi Kabab and wanted to taste but can't . So I thought of making a vegetarian version for them. Sometimes kathal is also known as vegetarian mutton,  So I prefer this seasonal vegetable to make this dish. 

Jack Fruit or Kathal- 500gm

Chana Dal- 4 to 5 tbsp

Onion- 1 big

Garlic- 5 to 6 cloves

Ginger- 1 inch piece

Green Chilli – 2 to 3

Zeera- 1 tsp

Clove- 4 to 5

Green Cardmom- 2

Dalchini- 1 inch piece

Bay Leaves- 1 to 2

Black Pepper- 3 to 4

Haldi- 1 tsp

Salt to taste

Oil for frying

Apply generous amount of oil on kitchen platform, knife and palm and cut the kathal in cubes.

Soak chana dal in water for half an hour.

Heat 1 tbsp of oil in a frying pan and add the cubed kathal. Fry the kathal up to the raw smell goes off.

In a pressure cooker add fried cubed kathal, soaked chana dal and all other spices. Add water and cook up to 3 whistles. Let it release the pressure.  Allow it to come down to the room temperature.

In a grinder jar put all the cooked kathal and spices to make a smooth paste. While grinding don't add any water. If needed add a very little water. It should be a smooth paste.

Taste the paste and adjust the seasoning. if it became very watery, add little besan to the paste.

Heat oil in a pan and give shapes to the paste like round or heart shape, shallow fry them.  It is ready to serve with onion or mint chutney.