There were too many words to fit into a title ... <smile>

I want to make shish kebabs which taste like the delicious flavoured
meat sticks you can eat in Greece, Turkey, and / or the Middle East
(and probably a lot of other places too!). There are a gazillion
recipes on the Internet, all different of course, and most of them
simply don't sound right (it'll take me a while to try all gazillion!).
One just has oregano, another just has ginger, ... none that I have
found (yet) sounds like it comes even close to the complex flavours in
the "real thing".

So, shish kebabers, can you help please? Experience, sugggestions,
recipes even?

Thanks

Merl

I've only had shish kebabs prepared by 3 different Middle Eastern
cooks, no Greeks. YUM!! They used something they added to the ground
meat, a mixture of spices that I will write here. I have 2 bottles of
this spice blend, the contents of one is called Green Thyme and the
other is called Red Thyme and they do taste a bit different, but the
ingredients on the bottles are identical. You could make it. Here they
are in the order listed: Nuts, Cumin, Salt, Citric Acid, Roasted Sesame
Seeds, Thyme, Coriander, Sumac and Aniseed. Everything is all ground up
to a powder but the sesame seeds are still whole. I love both kinds...
and after the kebabs are done, they sprinkle a spice called sumak over
the shish kebabs. Sumak is a red and sour fine granular kind of thing.
Mmmmm, now you have me drooling. I love Middle Eastern food, and
Turkish food. MMMMMMMM!!!!

Bev
I am making a Turkish meal for about 20 people next week. I have a
menu, but please tell me what YOU think differentiates Turkish from
other Mediterranean/Middle Eastern dishes

Menu:
Stuffed Grape Leaves - Dolmasi
Shepherd's Salad - Coban Salata
Chicken with Mushrooms - Mantarli Tavuk
Pasta in the Oven - Firinda Makarna
Karithopeta - Walnut Cake (OK, it's Greek . . . so shoot me! - Lynn

Lynn from Fargo