Chicken Shawarma Poutine

Welcome Back to Episode 13 of Getting To Know Your Greek 🇬🇷 Bestie! Today we are making Shawarma Poutine!

You know how they say the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree? Well, that’s entirely TRUE because some of my favourite cuisines are from right next door to Greece! Let’s venture over to Egypt to discover delicious Shawarma!! Their garlic sauce is the perfect topper for this “Mediterranean Poutine” and man oh man did I ever wish I had seconds!!!!

INGREDIENTS:

For the chicken,

2-2.5 lbs boneless skinless chicken thighs

Chicken marinade,

2 tbsp garlic powder
2 tsp cloves
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp nutmeg
2 tsp chili powder
2 tsp oregano
1 tbsp all spice
1 tbsp Pepper
1/2 cup plain Greek yogurt
2 tbsp olive oil

1x frozen fries
1x container Osmows garlic sauce
1x jar of pickled turnips

Greek salad on the side,

1x tomato, halved, cut into wedges
1x orange or yellow bell pepper, sliced
1/4 cup feta
half cucumber, halved and chopped
¼-½ red onion, sliced thin
3 tbsp Olive oil
2 tbsp Red wine vinegar
Salt and pepper to taste

INSTRUCTIONS:
Make the marinade: add all the ingredients to a medium-sized mixing bowl or baking dish and whisk together.
Marinate the chicken: add the chicken thighs to the marinade, toss to combine well and put in the fridge to marinate for at least one hour and up to 24 hours.
Once the chicken has marinated for at least 1 hour, remove from the fridge and preheat the oven to 400F.
Use a vertical spit (meant for oven use) OR use an onion half as a base and position a skewer or two vertically into the onion like a spit on a sheet pan lined with foil. Thread the chicken thighs onto the skewer, making sure to rotate each thigh a bit as you go and the thighs are layered tightly together.
Bake for 1- 1 ½ hours, until the internal temperature of the chicken reaches 165°F (75°C). Let cool for 10-15 minutes before slicing/carving off slices of the chicken.
Bake the fries according to package directions.
Assemble the Greek salad by whisking together the olive oil and red wine vinegar. Add salt and pepper to taste. Drizzle over the salad ingredients in a bowl and toss. Taste and season with more salt and pepper if desired.
Assemble the shawarma bowl with the cooked fries, chicken, Greek salad, pickled turnip and garlic sauce.

#Poutine #Greece #Shawarma

[Hashbrowns-oqeq]

They’re not inspired by gyros, gyros are inspired by döner due to ottoman influence, greek cuisine became more middle eastern&north african influenced because of ottomans and drifted from southern European cuisine. it looks delicious tho, we can just say we are making shawarma and it will be okay.

[antonymasoud]

Gyros were derived from shawarma not the other way around. The food looks really good though 👌.