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I think I am becoming more adventurous in my old age when it comes to food. That's probably because I don't have fussy children in the house to please any more.
My husband is not a fussy eater. He doesn't really like pasta or chocolate, but he pretty much eats whatever I put in front of him.
I really enjoy the freedom I have now to explore and cook whatever I desire (within reason) and a variety of flavours and ethnic dishes, etc.
I have discovered in later years that I really enjoy Mediterranean and Middle East flavours!
I was sent some lovely Greek Flat Breads the other day and took advantage of them to make these fabulous Easy Chicken Gyros. (Yee-ros)
The Greek Flat Breads are from Deli Kitchen and they are just beautiful. Soft and flexible they are perfect for recipes such as this!
Gyros are a Greek sandwich which consists of grilled meat (chicken, lamb, beef or pork) which has been marinated in a delicious marinade prior to grilling, sliced and layered onto a flat bread along with some salad and some creamy Tzatzki sauce.
Sound yummy? They are incredibly tasty to say the least!
They are a popular sandwich found in many takeaways here in the UK. Along with a lamb/beef version.
I prefer to make them at home so that I know exactly what goes into them. (I have seen too many horror stories on the television about the cleanliness in these types of establishments!!)
They are really a very easy sandwich to make and quite quick if you do a bit of planning ahead of time.
Today I used chicken thighs which I had marinated in a fabulously tasty, garlicky, yogurty, oregano rich marinade.
You want to plan ahead a bit as you will want to marinate the chicken for a while before grilling it. Ideally about 12 hours, but certainly no less than 2 hours.
This makes it the perfect quick supper for a week night. Just pop the chicken into marinate while you are out all day at work or school or whatever and then pop it onto the grill when you get home!
Along with the grilled chicken you will need Tzatziki sauce. This is a cool cucumber/yogurt sauce.
You can use a good ready made one, but it is really quite simple to make your own, and infinitely tastier!
You also will want a simple salad garnish. Tomatoes, cucumber, red onions, parsley.
You can mix all of this together with some seasoning and just spoon it on, or you can leave things individually so that people can help themselves.
That is the way we do it in this house as my husband doesn't like much cucumber, but he does like the tomatoes and onions. That way he can please himself.
The chicken is simply grilled. For the most flavour you can do it on the outdoor grill (especially nice in the summer months) or you can pop it under the oven grill, or even in an electric grill.
Whatever is easiest for you and brings you joy! Let it sit for a few minutes after to settle the juices and then slice into bits, ready for layering on the flat breads.
You warm your flat breads while the chicken is resting, then dollop on some of that Tzatziki sauce, some salad fixings and the grilled chicken . . . ready to roll up, secure and enjoy!
Now that's what I call proper tasty!
Quick, easy and DELICIOUS! What more could you want???
Easy Chicken Gyros
Yield: 2 - 3
A small proportioned recipe for the smaller family. Delicious marinated chicken thighs, grilled and served wrapped in a lovely flat bread along with Tzatziki Sauce, tomatoes, cucumbers and chopped red onion. Easily doubled to feed more.
ingredients:
For the chicken:
- 4 boneless skinless chicken thighs
- 1 1/2 tsp minced garlic
- 1 1/2 TBS fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 TBS olive oil
- 1 1/2 TBS Greek yogurt
- 3 tsp dried oregano
- 1/2 tsp fine sea salt
- freshly ground black pepper to taste
For the Tzatziki:
- 3/4 of an English cucumber, deseeded, grated and squeezed to remove as much juice as possible
- 1/2 cup Greek Yogurt
- 1/2 fresh TBS lemon juice
- 1/2 TBS olive oil
- 1/4 tsp minced garlic
- 1/4 tsp salt
- black pepper to taste
You will also need:
- 2 to 3 soft Greek Flat Breads
- 1 cucumber, peeled, seeded and diced
- 1 ripe tomato, deseeded and diced
- 2 - 3 TBS finely chopped red onions
- a small handful of fresh flat leaf parsley leaves
- salt and pepper as needed
instructions:
How to cook Easy Chicken Gyros
- First put the chicken in to marinate. (You should do this at least two hours ahead of time, and up to 12 hours ahead of time. Mix together all of the marinade ingredients in a plastic refrigerator container. Add the chicken and turn it to coat on all sides. Put the lid on and then place in the refrigerator to marinate.
- To make the Tzatziki, make sure your cucumber has been squeezed quite dry, then put it into a bowl and stir together with the remaining ingredients. Set aside for about 20 minutes in order for the flavours to meld well together.
- To make the salad for the Gyros, mix together the cucumbers, onion, tomato and parsley. Season to taste with some salt and black pepper. Alternately you can just lay the ingredients out on a plate and let people help themselves.
- When you are ready to serve, heat the grill to high. Remove the chicken from the marinade, discarding any marinade. Grill the chicken on the grill for about 2 to 3 minutes per side., until golden brown and cooked through.
- Cut the chicken into pieces. Keep warm while you warm your flat breads as per package instructions.
- To serve top each flat bread with some of the Tzatziki sauce, a portion of the chicken and some of the salad. Roll up, secure and enjoy!
Oh so yummy. You can get these new Deli Kitchen Greek Flat breads at Sainsburys! They're excellent! The Canadian in me just loves messy eat with your hands food. My husband . . . he prefers a knife and fork. He is just so proper British!
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I am willing to guarantee that you are going to fall abso-flippingly in love with this simple cake I am sharing here with you today. GUARANTEE!
Not only is it a very simple cake to make, but it has to be one of the moistest, most flavourful cakes you could ever want to eat.
I have adapted the recipe from one I found in the book Clodagh's Kitchen Diaries by Clodagh McKenna.
I was able to purchase a copy of this second hand the other week and the day it arrived I immediately bookmarked this recipe and set out the very next day to bake it. I kid you not.
In her description of the recipe she says: "This, I guarantee, will be one of your favourite recipes in this book. Light, moist and so zingy, it will keep for up to a week in an airtight container."
I would agree with everything she said but am doubtful about the last . . . not that it won't keep in a container for up to a week, but that you will even have any left to store for a week! Seriously!
Yes, it is THAT good!
This is the moistest, most flavourful cake I have ever made.
No flour in it . . . but you can't consider it gluten free because you do need a slice of white bread made into bread crumbs . . . and the gluten would be in that . . .
I used a slice of day old ordinary sandwich bread, about 1/2 inch in thickness. I did not cut off the crusts. I blitzed it into coarse bread crumbs in my food processor.
Once again I used Dorie Greenspan's trick of rubbing citrus zest into sugar to release the flavours and aromas. This cake uses the zest of one large orange and one lemon.
Use unwaxed if you can get them, otherwise scrub them well in soapy water and then dry with a soft cloth prior to zesting.
The citrus sugar gets mixed with the bread crumbs and a quantity of ground almonds . . . I think in North America you might call this almond meal or almond flour.
You will also need a teaspoon of baking powder. Mix that all together well then you simply stir in some vegetable oil that you have beaten together with some eggs.
She didn't specify the size of the eggs that I could find. I used large and they worked out beautifully.
That's it . . . just pour it into the prepared pan and bake . . . it smells really good while it is baking. Like a citrus grove . . .
After baking you make a spicy citrus syrup using the juice of an orange and a lemon, some sugar, a cinnamon stick and a couple of cloves.
This gets soaked into the still warm cake, while its still warm . . . this is the secret to it's moist texture and amazing flavour!
Moroccan Orange Cake
Yield: 8
Light, moist and filled with lovely zingy orange flavours. This is destined to become highly placed in your arsenal of favourite cake recipes! If you can't get unwaxed fruit, simply wash the fruit you have in soapy warm water, scrubbing it gently with a brush. Dry well before using.
ingredients:
- 50g slightly stale white breadcrumbs (1 slice)
- 200g caster sugar (1 cup minus 1 tsp.)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 100g ground almonds (1 cup plus 3 TBS)
- 200ml sunflower oil (7 fluid ounces)
- 4 large free range eggs
- the finely grated zest of 1 large unwaxed orange
- the finely grated zest of one unwaxed lemon
- Whipped cream or Greek Yogurt to serve
For the citrus syrup:
- the juice of 1 large orange
- the juice of 1 lemon
- 75g caster sugar (1/3 cup, slightly heaped)
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 2 whole cloves
instructions:
How to cook Moroccan Orange Cake
- Preheat the oven to 180*C/350*F/ gas mark 4. Butter and flour an 8 inch round cake tin. Line the bottom with baking paper. (I used a spring form pan.)
- Rub the fruit zests into the sugar with your fingertips until quite fragrant. Stir together with the bread crumbs, ground almonds and sifted baking powder. Whisk the oil together with the eggs. Add all at once to the dry mixture, mixing well together. Pour into the prepared pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 45 to 60 minutes until the cake is golden brown and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Allow to cool in the pan for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack.
- While the cake is baking make the citrus syrup. Put all of the ingredients into a small saucepan. Bring gently to the boil, stirring constantly. Reduce to a simmer and simmer for about 3 minutes at which time the sugar should be completely dissolved and a thickish syrup formed. Discard the cinnamon stick and the whole cloves.
- Poke holes all over the surface of the cake with a toothpick or skewer. Spoon the hot syrup over the cake allowing it to soak in. Spoon any excess syrup back over the cake every now and then until it is all soaked in.
- Cut into wedges to serve along with some whipped cream or Greek yogurt.
She suggest serving it with either whipped cream or thick Greek yogurt.
We had it with yogurt. I had intention only of having one small taste but before I knew it . . .
This is what was staring me in the face. The devil made me do it! OH MY GOODNESS!
I adore Croque Madame Sandwiches. A Croque Monsieur Sandwich is a fried ham & cheese sandwich topped with a layer of bechamel and grilled.
It becomes a Croque Madame when you add a fried egg to the top. Yes . . . not for the weak of heart! I have only ever made them once and they were to die for. You can read about that experience here. So, so, so good!
I like to think that this version is a bit lighter . . . and I can vouch for it being a lot easier! They go together lickety split and make an excellent light supper for two (easily multiplied) along with a salad on the side.
For this recipe I am using medium to small eggs, only because larger eggs would not stay on top without overflowing the crust onto the baking tray.
The base for these delicious and easy pizzas are Deli Kitchen's new Greek Style Flatbreads! Soft, pliable and perfect for these Croque Madame Pizzas! You could also use Naan bread with good results.
I have an excellent recipe for a Yeast Free Naan Bread that would also be excellent for these delicious pizzas.
You are going to love these! They are such a doddle to make. As easy as mixing together a cheese/sour cream topping to spread over the flat breads . . . then layering on pancetta and eggs and baking.
The cheese mixture uses two kinds of cheese . . . strong cheddar and Gruyere, which is a nutty sweet type of Swiss cheese. I love it!
This gets mixed with some sour cream, Dijon mustard and a splash of Worcestershire sauce . . . and then spread onto the flat breads.
On top of that you arrange some thinly sliced pancetta . . . Italian bacon . . . mild and smoky and so tasty. You want to make little cradles/nests to break the eggs into . . .
I used medium eggs today. Normally I use large eggs in all of my cooking, but I felt they would be too large and overflow, and in all truth even the medium ones did a bit, so you might want to go for small eggs.
It doesn't really matter or affect the taste if they do . . . its just a matter of aesthetics.
And that's it! Just pop them into the oven and bake them for about 20 minutes, depending on how well done you like your eggs.
At 20 minutes the yolks were nice and creamy . . . not runny. If you want runny, you might want to do them for less time. Just keep checking.
Altogether these are fabulously tasty! You are sure to fall in love with them. They are great for the weekend when you are wanting something a little bit heartier for breakfast . . .
They also make a great, quick and easy weeknight supper for two. All you need is some salad on the side perhaps.
Look at how nice, rich and golden brown that cheese topping is . . .
I can promise you that it tastes every bit as delicious as it looks. Honestly . . . I could have eaten just that on the flat bread and nothing else!
My husband really, REALLY enjoyed this. He had been outside mowing the grass before the rain started again . . . and had worked up a bit of an appetite!
I love it when he enjoys the things I cook for him. It makes me very happy. It also makes him happy as well! He doesn't normally like pizza, but this kind . . . he does!
Yield: 2
Croque Madame Pizzas
A recipe I adapted to serve two people. This makes a fabulous supper with some salad on the side!
ingredients:
- 2 Greek Style Soft Flatbreads
- 4 medium free range eggs
- 8 thin rashers of pancetta or streaky bacon
- 30g grated strong cheddar cheese (1/4 cup)
- 30g grated Gruyere Cheese (1/4 cup)
- 60g dairy sour cream (1/4 cup)
- 1 tsp Dijon mustard
- 1/4 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- salt and black pepper to taste
instructions:
How to cook Croque Madame Pizzas
- Preheat the oven to 220*C/425*F/gas mark 7. Line a baking tray with baking paper and place the two flatbreads onto it.
- Stir together both cheeses, the sour cream, mustard, and Worcestershire sauce to combine well. Divide evenly and spread onto one side of each flat bread. Top each
- Using the slices of Pancetta, arrange them on the top of the cheese mixture on each flat bread so as to make two circles with an open space in the middle to hold the egg. Carefully crack one egg into each so that it is contained.
- Bake in the preheated oven until the cheese is golden and the egg is just cooked. Season with salt and black pepper to serve.
An added bonus is the smell of the pancetta cooking while the pizzas bake. Oh so yummy.
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