Hinna

I got some keema and when I was prepping it, I noticed that it was kind of smelly. I have cooked it and even after adding all the masala, ginger and garlic, there's still a bit of a smell.

So for the next time I cook stinky keema..how can I make the smell go away.

Note- I am never buying keema from that place again!

Pinnacle

if its stinky it must be bad no?

ahmadjee

Usually if you fry the onions first with a generous amount of garlic & ginger, and then add the qeema, it takes the smell away. If you fry the qeema seperate or first, it keeps smelling.

dutch_paki

Did you add water when you started cooking it? Dont!

First let the keema cook in its own water.

-put the keema in a handy.
-throw some onions on top and some tomatoes.
-cover it and turn on the fire.
When its properly cooked and there is almost no water add the masala's, garlic, oil and all the other things. You may add water now if you wish.

And yes if the keema is smelling really bad you have to take it back to the store.

Devoted2Allah

add youghurt, ginger and 1/2 hare mirch chopped during the bhooning procdure, and keep bhooning until oil seeps put,

Qrius

you can still add onion, yogurt, tomotoes, mint leaves, green chillies and corriander leaves to it....hopefully..it will help to distract the smell.

smilestar

yeah..keema tends to have a funky smell sometimes..
i usually put half a teaspoon of 'maythi' - that usually helps diminish the smell

Raatkirani

What was the keema made out of? Lamb keema smells no matter what you do to it.

PyariCgudia

I love when I see the boys knowing more about cooking than girls.

I would probably not use it again, and make a complaint to the person who sold it to you. Was it a halaal place? That happens sometimes, and it might be for unhygeinic reasons that the meat is smelling. Or its going bad.

Hinna

It was lean beef keema. See, here in VA, they pre-package their meat and I guess I got a bad pack. I hate the concept of pre-packaged meat!!!

Sahar02

^ I've never heard of a place that does that!

I'm surprised it smells since it's lean.

Coriander, ginger, etc all help get rid of the meat smell, but if there is something wrong with the keema you need to say something.

Hinna

^ Yea I know!! I figured it would be desi-style like they have it in Canada..you go and look at the meat and pick whatever you want and have them cut it however you want. Apparently this doesn't happen in all states. LB was telling me that Florida does the same thing.

The keema isn't bad per say...it just smells.