lamb skewers
Meat on sticks
Lamb skewers are pieces of lamb threaded onto sticks and grilled or roasted.
The format appears across cuisines—Middle Eastern shish kebab, Greek souvlaki, Chinese yang rou chuan.
The meat is typically marinated and may alternate with vegetables on the skewer.
We ordered lamb skewers from the street vendor.
- kebabGrilled food on skewer
- grilledCooked on metal bars
- meatAnimal tissue for food
- marinadeSeasoned steeping liquid
- charcoalBurned wood residue
open flame · tender · rosemary · cumin · red pepper flakes · juicy · sizzling · mint · garlic · rotisserie · smoky · souvlaki · satay · barbecue · spiced · Middle Eastern · Turkish cuisine · street food
- Western ChinaXinjiang, Tibet, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Lhasa
- Northwest Chinesehand-pulled noodles, naan, polo, nan, beef noodle soup
- LanzhouYellow River
- North ChinaBeijing, Tianjin, Shandong, Inner Mongolia, Great Wall
- Chinese MuslimsUyghur, Uyghurs, halal food, Xinjiang, Kazakhs