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Lebanese Chicken and Salad

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Lebanese Chicken and Salad

The perfect lebanese chicken and salad recipe with a picture and simple step-by-step instructions.

For the chicken:

  • 5 Pc. Chicken legs
  • 300 g Basmati rice
  • 750 g Greek yogurt 10% fat
  • 250 g Peanut butter
  • 4 Pc. Garlic cloves
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Verbena

For the salad:

  • 200 g Pick salad
  • 3 tbsp Sunflower seeds
  • 4 tbsp Olive oil
  • 1 tsp Born mustard
  • 2 tsp Mirabelle jam
  • Lemon juice
  • 1 tbsp Water cold

Chicken:

  1. Wash the chicken legs, place in a large saucepan with salted water and simmer over medium heat for about 45 minutes. In the meantime, cook the basmati rice as indicated on the rice package.
  2. Put the yoghurt in a large bowl, season well with peanut butter, salt and pepper and then press the garlic cloves through a garlic press, add to the yoghurt mixture and stir everything well.
  3. Now separate the cooled meat from the bones and cut into small pieces and mix the cooked rice with a third of the yoghurt mixture.
  4. To layer the ingredients, you can use a large baking dish or 5 small ones. The bottom layer forms half of the rice yoghurt mixture, then half of the meat is spread over it and a smooth layer of peanut yoghurt is placed on top.
  5. Then comes rice, meat and yogurt again, so that there are a total of 6 layers in the baking dish. The oven is now preheated to 170 ° top / bottom heat.
  6. Put the baking dish with a roasting thermometer in the middle of the oven and when the core temperature shows 70 ° and the yoghurt layer has a very light caramel color, the Lebanese chicken is ready.
  7. Now decorate with verbena.

Salad:

  1. Wash and clean the lettuce and lightly toast the sunflower seeds in the pan without any fat.
  2. For the dressing, mix olive oil, mustard, water, jam and lemon into a vinaigrette and mix well with the salad.
  3. Now fill the salad into 5 salad bowls and sprinkle the sunflower seeds over them.
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Written by John Myers

Professional Chef with 29 years of industry experience at the highest levels. Restaurant owner. Beverage Director with experience creating world-class nationally recognized cocktail programs. Food writer with a distinctive Chef-driven voice and point of view.

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