Boy, it is chicken week in my house. Usually it's chicken and fish week but I seem to have forgotten the fish. Oops. It'll even out over time. And today is a nice one because it's something I've cooked so often I don't even need to think about it: lemon chicken with houmous and sprinkles.
Take your chicken. Put it in oil and lemon and lots and lots of grated garlic. Leave it a while.
If you want the full effect, get an email from your dad saying their veg box has brought even more garlic and he's going to hand over several heads when you drop off the shopping on Thursday. Make your faithful tomatoes and garlic into more of a garlic n tomatoes vibe.
Go off and live your life for a while. I did some yoga and indeed half a day of work. Then put the oven on and give this about twenty minutes - till the chicken is close to cooked.
Meanwhile, find some houmous and mix it half and half with yoghurt if you can - you want the chicken to be the loudest flavour in this.
Slice some chunky bread - you want to add this after 20 minutes so it sits with the garlicky oily lemony chicken and soaks up all the good stuff. Those bake at home ciabatta are ideal, as they cook as well as soaking up.
And mix sesame seeds, salt and cumin (and paprika, but this is actually harissa houmous so I reckoned I didn't need two hot flavours shouting at each other) in a bowl together. Grind them if you fancy, it will mildly help. Roasting the seeds ditto, but who has the washing up capacity at this point in lockdown?
Take your warm, oily bread as a base. Glop houmous and yoghurt on each bit. Slice the chicken and balance bits on each bread and houmous slice. Sprinkle with the seeds and spice.
Messy, tasty, midweek goodness. No prizes for presentation, no damns given:
A good meal for a fairly ordinary working day. I was back after four days off, and wrangling the news updates, so it's good to switch my brain off when it comes to cooking.
Take your chicken. Put it in oil and lemon and lots and lots of grated garlic. Leave it a while.
If you want the full effect, get an email from your dad saying their veg box has brought even more garlic and he's going to hand over several heads when you drop off the shopping on Thursday. Make your faithful tomatoes and garlic into more of a garlic n tomatoes vibe.
Go off and live your life for a while. I did some yoga and indeed half a day of work. Then put the oven on and give this about twenty minutes - till the chicken is close to cooked.
Meanwhile, find some houmous and mix it half and half with yoghurt if you can - you want the chicken to be the loudest flavour in this.
Slice some chunky bread - you want to add this after 20 minutes so it sits with the garlicky oily lemony chicken and soaks up all the good stuff. Those bake at home ciabatta are ideal, as they cook as well as soaking up.
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And mix sesame seeds, salt and cumin (and paprika, but this is actually harissa houmous so I reckoned I didn't need two hot flavours shouting at each other) in a bowl together. Grind them if you fancy, it will mildly help. Roasting the seeds ditto, but who has the washing up capacity at this point in lockdown?
Take your warm, oily bread as a base. Glop houmous and yoghurt on each bit. Slice the chicken and balance bits on each bread and houmous slice. Sprinkle with the seeds and spice.
Messy, tasty, midweek goodness. No prizes for presentation, no damns given:
A good meal for a fairly ordinary working day. I was back after four days off, and wrangling the news updates, so it's good to switch my brain off when it comes to cooking.
Oh wow, I'm glad I had a late breakfast because reading this has made me seriously hungry!
ReplyDeleteIt's a tremendously useful old friend, and always tasty. I got it from something massively unpromising, something like a supermarket recipe mum passed on to me, and it has gone straight onto the Often, Whenever You Like pile and stayed there.
DeleteI love when you have recipes like that up your sleeve. I have a lemon chicken one that does the same for me, with garlic yoghurt, and it's one of my go to dishes when I'm stuck.
DeleteDribble dribble dribble. I've had dinner and I'm still hungry reading that!
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