Lebanese mezze

Lebanese cuisine is wonderful, it mixes flavors of French and Turkish cuisine with a touch of ancient Roman and Greek cuisine, can you even imagine such delights. This is a very small and the simplest part of that cuisine, but you have to start somewhere.

Preparation steps

Soak wooden chopsticks in cold water for half an hour. Salad: Drain and wash the chickpeas. / Of course you can cook it yourself but don't forget to soak it the night before in cold water with a little baking soda / cook it for half an hour in an espresso pot or an hour and a half in a regular pot with a thicker bottom./ Slice roasted peppers / I use it from winter but and buy roasted peppers in a jar / add chopped coriander and chickpeas, salt, steam and drizzle with a little lemon juice and olive oil. refrigerate to cool.
Hummus sauce with yogurt: Put chickpeas in a deeper bowl or multipractice, add yogurt, cumin, lemon juice, olive oil and garlic, make everything with a stick mixer, salt and pepper to taste. Drizzle a little olive oil over the hummus and sprinkle with chili pap. Set aside until serving
Meat: Wash chicken, dry. Season the chicken with allspice, finely chopped garlic, cumin, lemon juice and salt, stir, cover and leave to marinate at room temperature for 10 minutes. Allspice spice / I worked for the chef's challenge but I didn't have time to put / picture: Mix 1/2 teaspoon of ground cinnamon, nutmeg and ground cloves.
Heat a grill pan or grill. Cut the lemon into pieces. Arrange the lemon and chicken alternately. Bake in a preheated pan until it catches a fine color, turning occasionally.

Serving

Serve the skewers with salad and hummus and of course pie bread.

Ingredients

Meat:

600gchicken fillet
1.5 tspallspice spices / recipe below
1 tbspolive oil
1/2lemon / juice
1clove of garlic
1.5 tspcumina
salt

Allspice spice:

1/2 teaspooncinnamon
1/2 teaspoonground cloves
1/2 teaspoonground nutmeg

Hummus with yogurt:

400gcanned chickpeas
2spoons of Greek yogurt / solid
1/2lemon juice
1 tbspolive oil
1clove of garlic
salt

Salad:

400gchickpeas
2roasted peppers
1 handchopped coriander / parsley leaves
1 tbspolive oil
1 tbsplemon juice
salt, pepper

Other:

1/2 lemonfetice
a pinch of chili peppers

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