Chicken Shawarma and a Birthday Cake

Everything looks incredible. What ingredients did you use for your chicken marinade?

Coming from a Lebanese gent that looks really good. My marinade consists of equal parts oil and red wine vinegar, chopped garlic, caeyane pepper and salt. Needs at least 4 hours and if only use boneless breast it’s still good .

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Everything looks incredible. What ingredients did you use for your chicken marinade?

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For this I used about 4 lbs of boneless/skinless chicken thighs.

2/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
5 tsp cumin
5 tsp paprika
3 tsp allspice
2 tsp turmeric
2 tbsp garlic powder
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp cayenne(could use a little more if you want it spicy)
Salt and black pepper

Put the chicken in a large zip loc type bag and pour the marinade over chicken. Squeeze out air and zip closed then work the marinade over all of the chicken and place in refrigerator on a pan or in a bowl in case it leaks. Every couple of hour I turn bag over and massage to spread marinade. I marinate it overnight. Everyone here loves it. It's great as leftovers for salads, or even just putting in pita bread for a sandwich.

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Can you share your marinade recipe for the Shawarma and your recipe for hummus?

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The hummus was just store bought at Sam's(Member Mark brand), spread out over platter or plate and drizzle a good olive oil over. Add a mix of good olives. I used to buy olives at the olive bar at Rouse's but with the Covid they discontinued it. So, I bought jarred olives and out them in a jar with good olive oil to marinate.

Edited to add that hummus brought to room temperature has more flavor than cold. I take the hummus trays out of the fridge about two hours before serving and it's delicious!

Excellent job. How was the cake? I love chocolate/peanut butter combo. I bet using almond butter could be interesting.

I highly recommend everyone put chicken shawarma into their regular rotation, if it's too much of a hassle making the marinade, the Kroger brand is awesome.




We also make a yogurt sauce and service with lettuce and tomato on the flatbreads.


Yogurt Sauce-
1 1/2 cup greek yogurt
Juice of 2 lemon wedges
Three sprigs fresh dill, finely chopped
Pinch of salt
Pinch of pepper
Pinch of garlic powder


And as OP demonstrations, use boneless thighs and go high heat to really transform the flavor of the shawarma marinade into something that is greater than the sum of its parts.

the chicken turns out to be very tasty and soft if marinated in yogurt with Provencal herbs. Divine taste)

Looks amazing.

At the Rouses closest to me, in Baton Rouge, they now have the olive bar again.

What is “good” olive oil? I had the most amazing olive oil ever at a restaurant and when I looked online to buy it, I found out shipping costs as much as the actual olive oil. I just can’t do it.

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What is “good” olive oil?

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I used to get and use Saica Brand, 100% Extra Virgin Olive Oil exclusively but couldn't get it in the 1 gal. cans like I used to locally. I'll have to check Nor Joe to see if they carry it again.
Lately I've been using Costco's Kirkland brand Organic Extra Virgin which they sell at a great price of about ten bucks for 2 ltrs.