Chicken Shawarma
Shawarma is a Middle-Eastern sandwich. Its made of thinly shaved pieces of lamb, goat or chicken, topped with parsley, onions and garlic sauce, and then wrapped with a pita. The word shawarma comes from a Turkish word meaning “turning” or the turning of the meat on the spit. The shawarma is slowly cooked on a rotating vertical spit. As the meat is cooked, its shaved off with a large knife. Since most people do not have a rotating vertical spit in their kitchen, the next best thing is either grilling...
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I’ve been on a mission to duplicate the hummus from a local favorite Greek restaurant, Farm Grill and Rotisserie. They won’t exactly give me the recipe but they did tell me their secret ingredient is the particular type of tahini they import from Lebanon. The other secret to the creamy, smooth blend is getting each and every last skin removed from each chickpea. You can use a foodmill for this process or painstakingly remove them by hand, one-by-one. The word hummus means ‘chickpea.’ You...
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