True Caucasian Shashlik
- 3 lbs leg of lamb, boned and trimmed of fat (reserve the fat)
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 garlic cloves, minced or 1 garlic clove, crushed
- 1 1/2 cups pomegranate juice
- salt
- 1 slice bread, cut into 6 cubes
- 1/2 cup oil
- pepper
- Cut lamb into 2-inch cubes; toss with onion and garlic in a bowl.
- Cut fat from lamb into slivers.
- Combine pomegranate juice with salt and pour over lamb (meat and fat), set in a cool place (but NOT cold like refrigerator) and marinate 4-12 hours.
- After marinating lamb, pat each piece dry as you place it on 6 long skewers, interspersing lamb fat slivers with meat cubes; put a cube of bread at the end of each skewer to hold the meat on the skewer.
- Brush each skewer's contents with oil and sprinkle with pepper to taste.
- Grill (traditional) or broil 12-20 minutes from very high heat, turning once and basting with any juice that runs off, until meat is cooked through.
- Slip meat directly off skewer onto plate, one plate for each person being served.
lamb, onion, garlic, pomegranate juice, salt, bread, oil, pepper
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/true-caucasian-shashlik-238474 (may not work)