Recipe: Perfect Arabic Mashawi Chicken.. #Grilling/Barbecue

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Recipe: Perfect Arabic Mashawi Chicken.. #Grilling/Barbecue Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Arabic Mashawi Chicken.. #Grilling/Barbecue. This succulent chicken is often barbecued on charcoal for the amazing extra flavour and smokiness. With the lemony flavour of sumac, it is often a crowd pleaser. It is a very popular Lebanese dish often enjoyed with garlic toum (garlic dip) and lots of salad alongside and pita bread.

Using a mallet, pound the chicken gently till it is evenly flattened into a steak. (Like a Schnitzell).

Don't use too much force or the chicken will be mashed to a paste.

Add all the remaining ingredients including the olive oil.

You can cook Arabic Mashawi Chicken.. #Grilling/Barbecue using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Arabic Mashawi Chicken.. #Grilling/Barbecue

  1. You need 1.5 kg of Whole chicken.

  2. You need of Salt 1 tbsp or more.

  3. It’s 2 tbsp of Sumac.

  4. Prepare 1 tbsp of Ground cumin.

  5. You need 1 tbsp of Ground cinnamon.

  6. It’s 1 tbsp of Cayenne pepper powder.

  7. Prepare 1 tbsp of Paprika.

  8. It’s 6-7 tbsp of Hung curd.

  9. It’s 5-6 tbsp of Olive oil.

  10. It’s of Garlic cloves minced 6 to 7.

Great recipe for Arabic Mashawi Chicken. #Grilling/Barbecue.

This succulent chicken is often barbecued on charcoal for the amazing extra flavour and smokiness.

With the lemony flavour of sumac, it is often a crowd pleaser.

It is a very popular Lebanese dish often enjoyed with garlic toum (garlic.

Arabic Mashawi Chicken.. #Grilling/Barbecue step by step

  1. Make deep slits across the chicken..

  2. Marinate it with all the spices. Cover and leave it in the refrigerator overnight. This is important..

  3. Preheat oven to 240 °..

  4. Heat a barbecue or chargrill pan to medium high and grill it for about 8 to 10 minutes until a bit charred turning it over every now and then. Baste it with oil before doing it..

  5. Transfer it to a lined baking tray and roast it until done..

  6. Serve it hot with Lebanese Garlic Sauce and Pita bread..

If you like garlic then you will probably love this chicken!

This is a really simple way to cook chicken but it's really flavoursome & the chicken is moist & tender.

You can use any pieces of chicken for this recipe in place of the whole chicken.

In summer this is great on the BBQ. 'Farrouj' means male chicken in Arabic - they are said to be tastier than the hens but you can use any.

Truthfully, you could spatchcock a chicken, rub some olive oil on it, season it liberally with kosher salt and pepper, stick it in the oven, and stop right there.