Topic: Recipe Wanted: Shahi Keema Handi (EastZEast Restaurant chain)

[Mathmos_man]

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  ) 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

[DalPuri]

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.   

[Mathmos_man]

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

[Malc.]

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?

[spiceyokooko]

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?

[spiceyokooko]

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.

[Mathmos_man]

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!

[DalPuri]

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. 

[Malc.]

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.

[Mathmos_man]

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