Name: Chicken Shawerma
Cuisine: Palestinian
Ingredients: ¼ tsp each cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and cardamom; ¾ tsp pepper; 600 g (1 lb 6 oz) breasts of chicken; 1 tsp salt; ¾ tsp allspice; ¼ tsp gum arabic; 3 tbs freshly squeezed lemon juice; 2 tsp spice mixture; ¼ cup olive oil

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Classic Palestinian Cuisine

By Christiane Dabdoub Nasser

Published 2000

About

While lamb is a staple of shawerma, chicken has recently made a major breakthrough and has become quite a favourite. My butcher confided in me that while chicken is increasingly popular, shopkeepers still add layers of lamb fat in between the layers of chicken to guarantee a full flavour!

My response to such stratagems is home-made shawerma, juiciness and flavour guaranteed!