Hen Shawarma Bowl

What makes my Hen Shawarma Bowls stand out from the gang:

• Protein-Packed: With rooster, chickpeas, and feta, this bowl-style dinner supplies a hearty dose of protein. Prepared in about half-hour, it is excellent for weeknights, particularly should you make my rooster shawarma upfront.
• Taste-Packed Hen: I marinate skinless boneless rooster thighs in heat spices like cumin, paprika, cinnamon, turmeric, cayenne pepper, and cardamom, then grill them till completely juicy—both on the grill or a stovetop grill pan.
• Customizable: I present tricks to make it gluten-free, vegetarian, vegan, or spicy, so you may tailor it to your dietary preferences.
• Turmeric Rice Base: I sauté onions and garlic in ghee, then prepare dinner basmati rice with turmeric and rooster broth for a aromatic, golden base. You can too use my cilantro-lime black bean rice as a base.
• Contemporary, Crunchy Salad: I mix Persian cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, mint, and parsley with olive oil so as to add freshness and crunch to the rooster shawarma bowl. My husband has just lately requested me to inlude extra salads to our weekly protein-packed dinners, and this recipe is shortly changing into a household favourite! You can too use my Greek salad right here.
• Home made Tzatziki Sauce: I make a fast tzatziki sauce with Greek yogurt, lemon juice, garlic, and cucumber for a creamy, tangy topping. You can too use your favourite store-bought model.
• Flavorful Add-Ins: I embrace store-bought toum, pink pickled turnips, pickled yellow peppers, crumbled feta, and chickpeas so as to add layers of taste and texture.
• Meal Prep Pleasant: I really like this bowl-style dinner for meal prep—home made parts like rooster shawarma, turmeric rice, and tzatziki will be made forward, and the remainder is store-bought. The whole lot retains properly and the leftovers style simply nearly as good the subsequent day, so it’s excellent for straightforward lunches or fast weeknight dinners.

Ingredient Notes & Substitutions

• Proteins: Floor rooster or turkey, lamb, shrimp, or steak work nice for this dish as properly! Observe the directions on the way to make the shawarma rooster however exchange the rooster with any of those proteins as an alternative. 
• Rotisserie Hen: You should utilize rotisserie rooster instead of the rooster shawarma. Nevertheless, I extremely advocate making the rooster shawarma recipe to expertise your entire dish because it’s meant to be.
• Different Veggie Elements: You can too use pitted kalamata olives, roasted chickpeas, cilantro, sliced radishes, sauteed kale, contemporary arugula, chopped romaine lettuce, or uncooked spinach!
• Cheese: Haloumi contemporary or grilled is a superb substitute for feta! 
• Grains: I like to recommend common white rice, couscous, bulgar, teff, brown rice, or quinoa as options to creating the turmeric basmati rice.
• Sauces: I really like my home made tzatziki, however any tahini sauce, hummus, or savory yogurt primarily based sauce will work nice with this recipe! Chimichurri kind sauces additionally style nice!
• Smokiness: Mud the completed composed bowl with slightly sumac or paprika!
• Crunchy Chickpeas: Have you ever tried crunchy chickpeas that almost all grocery shops promote within the snack aisle? I really like them! You’ll be able to exchange the canned gentle chickpeas I’m utilizing right here with the crunchy ones for a texture increase!
• Tip: the beneath picture reveals each single ingredient you want. Take a screenshot in your procuring record!

Find out how to Make Hen Shawarma Bowls

Word: This can be a fast rundown of the recipe, full with useful step-by-step images! For the total recipe & directions please scroll right down to the recipe card beneath.

• To make the turmeric rice, sauté diced onion in ghee over medium warmth till gentle, then add garlic, cooking for one more minute.
• Stir in turmeric and salt, then add the rice, toasting it briefly with the spices.
• Add a bay leaf and rooster broth, carry to a boil, then cowl and simmer on low for quarter-hour.
• Let it sit off the warmth for five–10 minutes earlier than fluffing with a fork and eradicating the bay leaf.

• For the short salad, toss collectively cherry tomatoes, diced Persian cucumbers, chopped mint, parsley, olive oil, salt, and pepper.

• To assemble the bowls, begin with a scoop of turmeric rice, then prime with sliced rooster shawarma, tzatziki, toum, pickled turnips, pickled yellow peppers, crumbled feta, chickpeas, and the cucumber-tomato salad.
• End with lemon wedges and revel in!

Variations

• Vegan: Exchange all animal merchandise with vegan ones! It would style simply as incredible. I like to recommend utilizing tofu, eggplant, and mushrooms as subs for the rooster and vegan yogurts are simple to make use of as properly. Swap the ghee for a plant primarily based butter and the rooster broth for veggie broth. Use a vegan cheese you want just like feta or simply exclude it.
• Spicy: Add cayenne pepper, pink chile flakes, or harissa paste to your tzatziki or in your rice so as to add slightly kick to your rooster shawarma bowl!

Storage Directions

• Refrigerate: You’ll be able to both retailer all substances minus the tzatziki sauce collectively and hold within the fridge for as much as 4 days.
• Make-ahead storage tip: I like to make use of mason jars to pre-assemble and retailer rooster shawarma bowl substances if I’m meal-prepping: I layer the entire substances, beginning with the wettest substances first: sauce, then the cucumber tomato salad, veggies, rooster, and ending with the rice. This helps hold the rice from getting soggy and absorbing the entire sauce and if you flip it out right into a bowl, the layers will probably be reversed!
• I extremely don’t advocate freezing any of the substances for this recipe because it’s a meal greatest eaten contemporary. 

Facet Dish Suggestions

• Cilantro-Lime Black Bean Rice
• Mediterranean Lemon Rice with Chickpeas
• Greek Salad
• Orzo Salad
• Greek Pasta Salad

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Hen Shawarma Bowl

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I’m bringing this Center Japanese avenue meals traditional right into a bowl—grilled rooster shawarma served over turmeric rice with home made tzatziki, a contemporary tomato-cucumber salad, toum, pickled turnips and peppers, feta, and chickpeas. And sure, we’re making the rooster shawarma from scratch—on the grill or grill pan!

Course lunch, Primary Course

Delicacies Arabic, Center Japanese

Key phrase Hen Shawarma Bowl

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook dinner Time 20 minutes minutes

Whole Time 30 minutes minutes

Servings 6

Energy 632kcal

Writer Julia

Elements

For the turmeric rice

• 2 tablespoons ghee or butter, coconut oil, or margarine
• ½ medium onion diced
• 4 cloves garlic minced
• 1 ½ teaspoons turmeric powder
• 1 ½ cups basmati rice or any lengthy grain rice, washed and drained
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 ½ cups rooster broth

For the easy cucumber, cherry tomato salad

• 5 ounces cherry tomatoes quartered
• ½ pound persian cucumbers or English cucumbers with the pores and skin eliminated, lower into ¼” cubes
• 1 tablespoon mint minced
• 1 tablespoon parsley minced
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• salt and pepper

To assemble

• 1 ½ kilos pre-cooked Hen Shawarma sliced and reheated or chilly
• 1 ½ cups tzatziki sauce
• retailer purchased toum or garlic unfold
• pink pickled turnips
• pickled yellow peppers
• 8 ounces feta cheese crumbled
• 7 oz canned chickpeas drained and rinsed (I used half of the 15 oz can of chickpeas)
• lemon wedges

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Directions

Plan forward: Make rooster shawarma and tzatziki sauce

• This recipe makes use of my home made shawarma rooster and home made tzatziki sauce. You’ll be able to discover each recipes right here. The rooster must marinate for at the very least 1-2 hours (or in a single day within the fridge) after which grilled. Plan accordingly. You’ll be able to pre-cook the rooster as much as 1 day upfront or marinate it, and prepare dinner it together with the remainder of this recipe. It is as much as you.

Make turmeric salad

• In a medium pot, warmth the ghee over medium warmth. Add the diced onion and saute till translucent, however not browned.
• Add the garlic and saute for one more minute, till aromatic.
• Add the turmeric powder and salt. Saute for 1 minute.
• Pour within the basmati rice, toasting and coating the rice with the spices for about 1-2 minutes.
• Put within the bay leaf and pour within the rooster broth, stirring to mix all substances. Deliver to a boil, then cut back the warmth to low, cowl, and simmer for quarter-hour undisturbed.
• Take away from the warmth, and let sit lined for one more 5-10 minutes or till the liquid has been absorbed. Take away the bay leaf and fluff with a fork.

Make cucumber tomato salad

• Mix the cherry tomatoes, Persian cucumbers, mint, parsley, olive oil, salt and pepper to style in a medium bowl. Modify the seasoning and put aside.

Assemble

• Scoop the rice into bowls, and layer the rooster shawarma, tzatziki sauce, toum, pink pickled turnips, pickled yellow peppers, feta, chickpeas, and a scoop of the cucumber tomato salad. Serve lemon wedges on the facet

Notes

• Can I eat this scorching or chilly? Consuming this at room temperature or chilly are nice methods to take pleasure in this dish! I do want my rice and rooster to be heat, so I simply shortly heat them up within the microwave.
• Don’t elevate the lid or disturb the rice whereas cooking. It will launch the steam from the pot and might undercook the rice.
• As a result of this recipe is extremely versatile, be at liberty to make use of this as a base and add in your favourite toppings!
• If you wish to add some spices to your turmeric rice, be at liberty!  I like to recommend cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, and/or coriander.
• Storage Suggestions: Retailer the assembled rooster shawarma bowls (minus tzatziki) within the fridge for as much as 4 days. I don’t advocate freezing—this dish is greatest loved contemporary.
• For meal prep, I like utilizing mason jars—layering from backside to prime: sauce, salad, veggies, rooster, then rice on prime. This retains the whole lot contemporary and prevents soggy rice. Simply flip right into a bowl when able to eat! 
• I present useful suggestions on the substances and substitutions above this recipe card – scroll up. I additionally present step-by-step images.

Limitless Bowl Choices: Combine & Match Concepts

• Proteins: Floor rooster or turkey, lamb, shrimp, steak—and even rotisserie rooster—all work properly right here as an alternative of my shawarma rooster.
• Different Veggie Elements: You can too use pitted kalamata olives, roasted chickpeas, cilantro, sliced radishes, sauteed kale, contemporary arugula, chopped romaine lettuce, or uncooked spinach! Or, use my Greek salad.
• Cheese: Haloumi contemporary or grilled is a superb substitute for feta! 
• Grains: Swap turmeric rice with white rice, couscous, bulgur, brown rice, quinoa, and even cauliflower rice. Or, make my cilantro-lime black bean rice.
• Sauces: Strive hummus, tahini, garlic yogurt, harissa yogurt, or chimichurri as an alternative of tzatziki. Something creamy, tangy, or herb-packed works superbly!

You will have these provides:

• knife
• reducing board
• measuring spoons
• measuring cups
• medium pot with lid
• mixing bowl

Diet

Energy: 632kcal | Carbohydrates: 52g | Protein: 36g | Fats: 32g | Saturated Fats: 12g | Polyunsaturated Fats: 2g | Monounsaturated Fats: 8g | Trans Fats: 0.02g | Ldl cholesterol: 166mg | Sodium: 1677mg | Potassium: 569mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 638IU | Vitamin C: 9mg | Calcium: 322mg | Iron: 3mg

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