Where did the 'kebab' originate from?

Question

where did this delicious food originate from?, i keep hearing different things from different people so i never know
thanks x x

Answer 1

The original form of today's döner kebab is Oltu kebab. Oltu is a small town near Erzurum, Turkey. The original form is grilled horizontally and the slices are cut thicker, after inserting a special L shaped Oltu shish along the surface. In the 19th century, the modern form was invented in Bursa. The original form is still served in many cities of Turkey.

Today, döner kebab is typically served as a kind of sandwich in pita (flat bread). The döner kebab with salad and sauce served in pita, which is predominant in Germany and the rest of the world, was invented in Berlin-Kreuzberg in 1971, because the original preparation was not appealing enough to the German taste. The döner has been the most popular fast food dish in Germany since the 1980s.

Answer 2

Too difficult to answer. Probably thousands of years ago, when people hunted animals and the only way they know how to cook was grill it over fire.
However, "kebab" is mostly cooked in the Middle East, mainly Turkey, Arab countries, Greece, Cyprus etc. Does it really matter who invented it? It is just delicious.

Answer 3

Middle East

Answer 4

My opinion "kebab" came from Turkey. But it has ancient story in Middle East countries knew this type a meat cooking style and marinate with spices , vegetables and oil.
Using small sish and cook on barbecue.
Plus you have to be careful what kind of meat to use! Specially lamb legs perfect to use on sish kebabs.

Answer 5

Food historians generally attribute the origin of kebabs to ancient Middle Eastern cooks. In a land where fuel was scarce, this was a very efficient way to cook meat. Small pieces of meat (smaller the cut, faster they cook) threaded on skewers would have required very little fire. The recipes and combinations are endless.

"Kebab. A dish consisting basically of small pieces of meat threaded on to skewers and grilled or roasted. It originated in Turkey and eventually spread to the Balkans and the Middle East. The name is a shortened form of the Tukish sis kebab, sis meaning skewer and kebab meaning roast meat."

"Sis Kebabi...It is said that shish bebab was born over the open-field fires of medieval Turkic soldiers, who used their swords to grill meat. Given the obvious simplicity of spit-roasting meat over a fire, I suspect its genesis is earlier. There is iconographical evidence of Byzantine Greeks cooking shish kebabs. But surely the descriptions for skewering strips of meat for broiling in Homer's Odyssey must count for an early shish kebab."


The word kebab has an interesting history. In the Middle Ages the Arabic word kabab always meant fried meat. The compendious 14th-century dictionary Lisdan al'Arab defines kabab as tabahajah, which is a dish of fried pieces of meat, usually fininshed with some liquid in the cooking. The exact shape of the pieces of meat is not clear. However, since there was a separate class of dish called saraih, which consisted of long and thin strips of meat, and since most modern dishes called kebab call for more or less cubical chunks, it seems likely that kabab was chunks rather than strips. Kabab/kebab is not a common word in the early medieval Arabic books, because the Persian word tabahajah (diminutive of tabah) provided an alternative which was considered more high-toned. It is because of this original meaning that one still finds dishes such as tas kebab (bowl kebab) which are really stews. In the Middle Ages the Arabic word for grilled meat was not kebab but siwa. It was only in the Turkish period that such words as sishkebab or seekh kebab made their appearance. However all this may be, the custom of roasting meat in small chunks on a skewer seems to be very ancient in the Near East. Part of the reason for this may have to do with the urban nature of the civilization there. ..in the Near East they would go to a butcher's shop and buy smaller cuts. However, a more important reason, and the basic one, was surely that fuel has long been in short supply in the Near East..."


"Kebab. Roasting marinated meat on spit while basting with fat is described both in Sanskrit and Tamil literature...the kabab has a distinct identity as a dainty from the Middle East which is particularly favoured by the Muslims in India...Ibn Battuta records chicken kaba being served by royal houses during the Sultanate period. Even common folk ate kabab and paratas for breakfast, and in Mugal India a few centuries later it was still naan and kabab."

Answer 6

Kebab (also written kebap, kabob, kibob, ...) refers to a variety of grilled/broiled meat dishes in Middle Eastern cuisine. Turkey, Greece but also Iran

Answer 7

Back in the Arabian days

Answer 8

originated from middle east(arabuia)...Perfection Ted by mughals(india)

Answer 9

it's just a grilled meat from arabian that's all

Answer 10

turkey