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Wooden skewers. A skewer is a thin metal or wood stick used to hold pieces of food together. [1] The word may sometimes be used as a metonym, to refer to the entire food item served on a skewer, as in "chicken skewers". Skewers are used while grilling or roasting meats and fish, and in other culinary applications.
Şiş, pronounced , is a Turkish word meaning "sword" or "skewer". [33] [34] According to tradition, the dish was invented by medieval soldiers who used their swords to grill meat over open-field fires. [35] [36] In Turkey, shish kebab does not normally contain vegetables, though they may be cooked on a separate skewer. [37]
Shish kebab is an English rendering of Turkish: şiş (sword or skewer) and kebap (roasted meat dish), that dates from around the beginning of the 20th century. [7] [8] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, its earliest known publication in English is in the 1914 novel Our Mr. Wrenn by Sinclair Lewis.
Shawarma is prepared from thin cuts of seasoned and marinated lamb, mutton, veal, beef, chicken, or turkey. The slices are stacked on a skewer [18] about 60 cm (20 in) high. Pieces of fat may be added to the stack to provide extra juiciness and flavour.
Doner kebab or döner kebab [a] is a dish of Turkish origin made of meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie. [1] Seasoned meat stacked in the shape of an inverted cone is turned slowly on the rotisserie, next to a vertical cooking element.
Satay may consist of diced or sliced chicken, goat, mutton, beef, pork, fish, other meats, or tofu; bamboo skewers are often used, while rustic style of preparations employ skewers from the midrib of the coconut palm frond. The meat is grilled over a wood or charcoal fire, then served with various spicy seasonings.
A churrascaria (Portuguese: [ʃuʁɐskɐˈɾi.ɐ]) is a place where meat is cooked in churrasco style, which translates roughly from the Portuguese word for "barbecue". Churrascaria cuisine is typically (but not always) served rodízio style, where roving waiters serve the barbecued meats from large skewers directly onto the seated diners ...
Shashlik, or shashlyck (Russian: шашлык shashlyk pronunciation ⓘ), is a dish of skewered and grilled cubes of meat, similar to or synonymous with shish kebab.It is known traditionally by various other names in the Caucasus, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, [1] [2] and from the 19th century became popular as shashlik across much of the Russian Empire and nowadays in former Soviet Union ...