More food! Chicken Zorba

[Belmit]

Ingredients:

Chicken breast (1 per person)
Pitta bread (2 per person)
Lemon juice
Coriander, cumin and tumeric
Mint
Lettuce, cucumber and onion
Houmous
Natural yoghurt
Oil

Prep:

Chop up the chicken and sling it in a bowl with the spices, lemon juice and mint. Mix it up and leave it to soak in. I leave it about ten minutes but you could do it for longer.

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Chop up some cucumber (I forgot it, doh!) and raw onion and tear up some lettuce. Put it in a bowl for later. Mix equal parts houmous (I use the one with olives chopped up in it) with yoghurt to make what I call 'gunk'. Also put this in a dish for after the chicken is cooked.

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Cooking:

Heat the oil and cook the chicken through.

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The tumeric is what gives it the nice yellow colour. I used all dry spices and mint, but fresh mint would be better. I actually have some in the garden but it's wet out and I'm a wuss.

Empty the chicken into a bowl and pop the pitta breads in the toaster. With any luck they'll inflate and go a little crispy on the outside. Cut the edge off lengthways to make a little pitta pocket.

You should now have three bowls - one with salad, one with chicken and one with gunk. Stuff the pitta to bursting in any manner you deem necessary. I put lettuce on the bottom layer to prevent leakage.

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Scoff readily.

Should you fancy it afterwards, have a scone or some free chocolates you got in exchange for doing a lame questionnaire. I'll be having both!

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:)

[Blackstar]

What is a Zorba? It sounds like some sort of car.

[Belmit]

You know, I've no idea. It's Greek though.

[Haly]

Oooh that looks lovely :D
I love chicken and salad in pitta bread anyhow, but the 'gunk' sounds like it'd be great to add.

[lostkat]

Ooooh that looks absolutely lovely. Nice as a lunchtime snack. Might have to try it and I'm sure low fat hummus + yog would make a lower fat alternative. Cheers Belmit :)

[Fayshun]

"If I were a rich man, dabba-dabba-dabba-doo"

Oh hang on, wrong film.

[Jonny69]

This looks 'king fantastic! So simple. I will be doing it next week ;)

[leowyatt]

guess what we're having for tea tonight :D

[Jonny69]

So I've done a variation of this tonight...

The chicken I've got marinating in a bit of curry powder (basically the spices as above), some salt and a little oil. Chunked up I have some onion, red, yellow and green pepper and that is all sitting ready to go in the grill in a few minutes.

Meanwhile I have knocked up a yoghurt, finely chopped cucumber and mint dressing with a pinch of salt to dollop over the top and shredded some lettuce.

The plan is to slap the chicken and veggies under the grill, then throw the lot in a large tortilla, spoon over plenty of the dressing and shovel it in. Damn I'm hungry thinking about it, I'd better get cracked into this wine in the meantime ;)