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Sprinkle the skin with salt and pepper. While the chicken is roasting, work on the onions. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have middle eastern roast chicken with salads and flatbreads using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Middle Eastern roast chicken with salads and flatbreads:
- Make ready 1 whole chicken (1,8kgs)
- Prepare 2 tbsp flat leaf parsley - chopped
- Prepare 1-2 tbsp freshly chopped mint
- Prepare 3 garlic cloves - sliced
- Take 1 lemon
- Get 1 tbsp Zaatar (plus extra to serve)
- Prepare 1 tbsp sumac
- Get 4 tbsp olive oil
- Get 70 ml white wine
- Prepare Salt and pepper
- Prepare Hummus, yogurt, fattoush salad (see other recipe) and flatbreads to serve
Shawarma (/ ʃ ə ˈ w ɑːr m ə /; Arabic: شاورما ) is a dish in Middle Eastern cuisine consisting of meat cut into thin slices, stacked in a cone-like shape, and roasted on a slowly-turning vertical rotisserie or spit. Originally made of lamb or mutton, today's shawarma may also be chicken, turkey, beef, or veal. Thin slices are shaved off the cooked surface as it continuously rotates. Fabulous alongside a roast chicken, lamb or roast pork.
Steps to make Middle Eastern roast chicken with salads and flatbreads:
- Place your chicken on a board and pierce it all over with a sharp knife.
- Finely chop the herbs. Slice the garlic cloves. Slice half the lemon thinly. Mix the sumac and zaatar together.
- Slide the lemon slices under the skin with some on the herbs. Put the garlic slices and the remaining herbs into the holes pierced. Rub the spice mix and some seasoning all over the chicken and put the remaining lemon and any other herbs / spices / garlic into the chicken cavity.
- Place in a large food bag. Pour in the wine and olive oil and marinate in the fridge for a minimum of one hour but the longer the better.
- When ready to cook, Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C and place your chicken in a roasting tray. Pour over all of the remaining marinating juice, cover with foil and roast in the oven for 1 hr 35 mins (you’ll need to alter this time depending on the size of your chicken).
- 20 minutes before the end, remove the foil and finish roasting.
- Remove from the oven, leave to cool and then shred the chicken, sprinkling more Zaatar over the shredded chicken as you go.
- Serve with fattoush salad, flatbreads (see other recipe), hummus and pickled cabbage (see other recipe)
Garlic prawns, pan seared fish, a simple baked chicken breast, sticky honey garlic chicken, pork chops or steak. It's a natural fit alongside anything Mediterranean, Italian or Middle Eastern, and the flavours are on theme with Mexican food. Truthfully, you could spatchcock a chicken, rub some olive oil on it, season it liberally with kosher salt and pepper, stick it in the oven, and stop right there. I'm a big fan of seriously simple roast chickens. But I'm an even bigger fan of this Middle Eastern spatchcocked roast chicken complete with roast potatoes, caramelized leeks, and carrots.
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