How to learn how to cook delicious barbecue in Armenian 🍢

Equipment and utensils: barbecue, charcoal, kitchen scales, knife, cutting board, deep bowl, skewers.

Ingredients

Step cooking

Preparing and marinating meat

1. Before marinating meat, you need to prepare the coals, or rather, properly heat them. Each meat needs its own fire - a moderate fire is suitable for pork, so that the meat is well cooked and evenly browned.
   
2. Rinse 1.5 kg of pork well, dry and cut into even slices of about 50 g each. It is recommended that you choose meat that is not very sinewy and lean. For the exact weight you will need a kitchen scale. Pieces of meat are sent to a deep bowl, where it will be pickled.
   
3. When all the meat is cut, we proceed to marinate it. Pour 0.5 tsp. salt. Add ¼ tsp. ground black pepper, it is needed for flavor and spicy pungency. A lot of pepper does not need to be added. Then pour in ¼ tsp. sweet paprika. This spice gives the meat a beautiful color. But with it you need to be careful not to add too much, since during the frying process the kebab will be browned with paprika, and it is necessary that it is fried and browned due to fire.
   
4. Next, add 0.5 tsp. dried citron and basil, they will give the meat a pleasant taste and aroma. If you cannot find citron, you can replace it with tarragon.
   
5. We cut two large onions in half rings and, kneading them with our hands, add to the meat so that the onion puts juice and soak the meat.
   
6. The secret of delicious barbecue in Armenian is to add vegetable oil. For 1.5 kg of meat you will need 50 ml of oil. At the very end, add 4 tbsp. l cold water so that dry seasonings are quickly absorbed into the meat and give it all its aromas.
   
7. When all the ingredients are added to the meat, mix the kebab well with your hands. Kebab marinated in this way does not require long pickling, you can immediately start cooking it. Therefore, while the coals flare up, the kebab will be pickled.
   

BBQ cooking

1. We proceed to stringing meat on a skewer. Each piece should lie tightly on the skewer. There should be a small distance of about 0.5 cm between the pieces of meat so that the meat is well browned on all sides.
   
2. We set all the skewers on the grill and carefully monitor how the kebab is fried, constantly turn it over and adjust the coals so that the heat is even, and the meat is well-fried. The pork is cooked in about 15 to 20 minutes. The readiness of meat can be checked as follows: carefully cut one piece with a knife. If the juice is clear, then the kebab is ready. If the juice is red and the meat inside is pink, then the kebab should continue to cook.
   
3. Ready kebab served to the table and enjoy incredibly tasty meat. Enjoy your meal!
   

Video recipe

In the attached video recipe you will see what ingredients, spices and spices you will need to marinate the meat and cook the barbecue in Armenian. Enjoy watching!