Çöp şiş

Çöp şiş

Çöp şiş on a plate with vegetables.
Course	Kebab
Place of origin	Turkey
Main ingredients	Marinated slices of lamb, fat, onion, green pepper, black pepper and salt.
Cookbook: Çöp şiş   Media: Çöp şiş

Çöp Şiş (pronounced 'chop shish') is a type of lamb shish kebab eaten throughout Anatolia in Turkey.

The etymology of the name is uncertain, though 'Çöp' means garbage or rubbish in modern Turkish, and may have come from the word meaning 'chaff', the stalk of wheat removed during winnowing.^[1] It has also been suggested that they are so called because the meat used is the smaller scraps of meat that are not used for other types of kebab.^[2]

Çöp şiş is generally cooked on wooden skewers rather than iron ones.^[3] During preparation, the lamb meat and pieces of fat are mixed with garlic and tomato and left to marinate with black pepper, oregano and olive oil, before cooking over an ocak, or grill.^[4]

It is usually served with grilled peppers and onion, with bread as an option to wrap the lamb and vegetables inside.^[5]

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