Baba Ganoush Plate with Grilled Chicken

Ingredients

• chicken thighs — 600g
• greek yoghurt — 1/2 cup
• garlic — 2 cloves
• cumin — 2 tsp
• paprika — 2 tsp
• pita bread — 6
• cucumber — 1
• tomato — 2

Method

1. Mix yoghurt, garlic and spices, coat chicken and marinate 20 min if time allows.
2. Pan-fry or grill chicken until charred and cooked through.
3. Slice chicken.
4. Warm pita, chop cucumber and tomato.
5. Assemble wraps with chicken, salad and extra yoghurt.

Ingredients

• falafel — 12 frozen
• couscous — 1.5 cups
• cucumber — 1
• tomato — 2
• hummus — 1/2 cup
• feta — 100g

Method

1. Bake falafel per packet.
2. Prepare couscous.
3. Chop cucumber and tomato.
4. Bowl up couscous, salad, falafel, hummus and crumbled feta.

Ingredients

• lamb mince — 500g
• cumin — 2 tsp
• garlic — 2 cloves
• parsley — 1/2 bunch
• rice — 2 cups
• greek yoghurt — 1/2 cup

Method

1. Mix lamb mince with cumin, garlic and chopped parsley.
2. Shape into small sausage-like koftas around skewers (or freeform).
3. Pan-fry or grill, turning, until browned and cooked through.
4. Cook rice.
5. Serve koftas over rice with a dollop of yoghurt.

Ingredients

• whole chicken — 1.6kg
• rice — 2 cups
• beef mince — 300g
• almonds — 1/4 cup
• cinnamon — 1 tsp
• allspice — 1 tsp
• onion — 1

Method

1. Simmer whole chicken in water with onion and spices 45-60 min until cooked through.
2. Remove chicken, reserve the poaching stock.
3. Shred chicken meat off the bone once cool enough to handle.
4. Fry beef mince with cinnamon and allspice until browned.
5. Toast almonds separately until golden.
6. Cook rice in the reserved chicken stock for extra flavour.
7. Fold shredded chicken and spiced mince through the rice.
8. Top with toasted almonds to serve.

Ingredients

• eggs — 6
• diced tomatoes — 800g tin
• capsicum — 1
• onion — 1
• cumin — 1 tsp
• feta — 50g
• bread — 1 loaf

Method

1. Sauté onion and capsicum with cumin.
2. Add tomatoes, simmer 10 min.
3. Make wells, crack in eggs, cover and cook until set.
4. Crumble feta on top, serve with bread.