If you ever find yourself craving for a mediterrenean and indian food fix, check out Al Batra along makati ave a-venue side on top of 711. The place feels authentic just like other mediterrenean places.

We ordered the mixed kebab samplers, mixed appetizers and my new favorite basmati rice with tomato sauce. I can eat that rice all day and risk smelling like it. Haha.

For the price and serving its more affordable compared to hossein’s and the taste is worth every penny spent.

I want to try cooking my own basmati but that rice is expensive! At SNR I think its around php1,500 for a small sack. Maybe next time.

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So in the spirit of the chicken tikka, we also made Kofta balls. Yeahes!

I found the recipe online and its quite simple. It starts off like a typical meatball recipe with half a kilo of ground beef, an egg and just mix it all up season with salt and pepper.

Here’s the difference. In your mixture throw in finely chopped garlic, red onions and parsley. A teaspoon of cumin, coriander and cinammon (yes, cinammon).  Last one in is 2 tablespoons of tomato paste. Be generous on this one, its good.

Grill on! Use that thing in the picture, i dont know what its called but it helps coz you won’t worry about flipping the kofta balls one by one, just flip the whole thing.

It accidentally opened when I flipped it and we lost two brave kofta balls. Sad. Anyway, so be careful and don’t get carried away in flipping it.

3-5 mins per side should do the trick.  It depends on how big you make your kofta balls.

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I grilled it myself. Ahem. Hehehe. Anyway, my sister sent us some indian spices so might as well right?

Here’s the chicken tikka. The marinade comes straight from the bottle. Just add yogurt, season and leave it for a few hours. Overnight is better.

The marinade is basically composed of different spices like coriander, cumin, tamarind, paprika, etc.  Just check the bottle. Patak’s tikka paste.

Let the grillin’ begin!  It only takes a few mins, probably 3 to 5 mins per side and you are done. Grill some veggies and the meal is complete.

Oh, garlic sauce! Plain yogurt, twist of lemon and garlic. Mix it all up and you’re done.  I was hoping to eat it with basmati rice but all they had at the grocery was brown basmati rice. Hmmmm. Nevermind. Anyway, yum yum yum.

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