Ground Lamb Kebabs with Turkish Hot Peppers

Adana Kebab

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Planet Barbecue

By Steven Raichlen

Published 2010

  • About

It’s war in Turkish barbecue and Adana has fired the first salvo. The grill masters of Turkey’s fourth largest city have trademarked their spicy ground lamb kebab that’s flavored with the blood-red flakes of a local chile pepper named for a town in nearby Syria, Aleppo. The move outraged grill masters in the rival city of Gaziantep, an ancient Silk Road trading post equally renowned for its grilled ground lamb kebabs—one version flavored with local hot peppers, others made with the surreall