Primarily seal meat dish, almost like kebab (8)

'kebab' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?

'primarily seal meat dish almost like' is the wordplay.
'primarily' suggests taking the first letters.
'meat dish' becomes 'hash' (type of meat dish).
'almost' means to remove the last letter (almost the whole word is kept).
The first letter of 'seal' is 's'.
'like' with its last letter taken away is 'lik'.
's'+'hash'+'lik'='SHASHLIK'

Can you help me to learn more?