i love garlic but that is actually a lot for that much sauce. You only need 1 clove or 2 if they're small. Remember they're raw. Too much and it is spicy and not the same flavor.
Right?? Like no wonder people hate healthy food cos they misunderstand it as eating cardboard and grass. It's possible to have something healthy AND delicious with the right techniques 🤯
@@duknuts That's not even true. France, Spain, and Japan all have more highly reguarded chefs. More Michelin stars. US does as well, but at least that one is close.
@@Ashatori3200 It is completely unnecessary to wash the meat and it makes it easier to spread germs and salmonella when you do, google it. Y'all are crazy every time this is brought up
For my non Arabic friends. Za‘atar is dried Thyme with sesameseeds and you can get that Arabic bread at every Arabic foodshop. Arabs usually eat sa‘atar at breakfast. You dip a piece of bread into olive oil and press the wet bread into a bowl of sa‘tar. It’s pretty good stuff. 😊
Za'atar is really great I've eaten it before with bread and olive oil tho I've never thought of using them on like chicken and other meats tho that food looks really good! Love you're content keep going
If you put olive oil and za'atar on bread and then oven it, isn't that called manakeesh or something? Maybe you just dipped the bread but that's a viable alternative too. Good stuff
@@charlieross4674I do dip it normally, but I sometimes do make Manakish by putting it on top of the bread, tho I'm not sure if I can call it Manakish since I don't oven it, I instead microwave it.
The best way to just throw any spice mix you like and make it the best- for you! I love food when I can just make it taste good for my specific taste buds and have my personalized yum
@@vitaminademorango yeah - that doesnt really translate into a cooking INSTRUCTION video though does it. He mayaswell just start a channel called "Cook whatever you want"
i just made this and its actually delicious! i just made a little too many chickpeas but thats fine as its really good for later. I recommend making it with a regular tortilla thats grilled up for like a minute or two
I made this for my 95 year old mother. She loved it! She’s not interested in cooking anymore and I want to be sure she is taken care of. This week’ menu included your chicken dish, shat Shuka style eggs, Iranian herb stew as well as pani puri, Chat and Koofte with nuts and dried cherries. She’s from New England and lived a very boring food life but she makes the best pie you ever tasted! I just had lunch with her and I made blueberry buckle which is an old fashioned English cake made with brown sugar and butter. I used ghee and agave syrup. She seems to like Za’atar and mild curry a lot.
As an Arab, I've eaten za'atar almost all my life, and have tried making different food combinations with it, but I've never thought to put it on chicken. I'm definitely trying this. ✨UPDATE✨ I tried it and totally recommend it. Its flavor reminded me of a falafel tbh. You get its freshness from the vegetables, its tanginess from the yogurt (I used laban), saltiness from the zaatar, and acidity from the lemon. Plus, what "balances" these flavors out are the chickpeas, chicken, and bread. In all, the combination of flavors and textures, as well as the fact that it was super quick to make, made this a really good meal. I give it an 8/10.
@@kbin7042 We usually make our manakish topping with it, but it can also be used as dipping for bread. It is very versatile, but we usually eat it like this. By the way, manakish is like a pizza, but with no tomato sauce. If, for example, you add za'atar to pizza dough and put it in the oven, you get zaatar manakish.
You want a breakdown of every single thing in his spice mixes? Just put on what you want. He's not giving you a derect recipe for you to follow closely, hes showing you how to make something simple.
As an arab , i have never in my life seen sm1 soice their chicken with zaatar its usually just used with pita bread and some olive oil as breakfast or a snack but ig this guy has his new ways and traditions with it😂 props to him lol
If you soak the chickpeas overnight and pan fry it with some oil and a GOOD AMOUNT of cumin plus onions, garlic, and wiri wiri peppers, you'll get Guyanese channah, which is an amazing sidedish
😂😂😂 in a tin they are soaked and boiled already. So you don’t need to do anything… just pan fry them. You can literally eat it out of a tin just like that.
@@winwinner6674 Im in germany and theres no problem with the chicken here, why would you wash it? Its cleaned and salmonella gets cooked off, so for what?
I'm an Israeli so chickpeas are common here. In hebrew they're actually called hummus peas and so is the plant called hummus because that's where hummus sauce coems from
I love grabbing my bottle of McCormick brand "some spices" and measuring out to the "a little bit" line of my measuring cup so I can season my chicken for my Non-Descript, unspecified recipe.
Hell, I'm English, and if I'm putting garlic in something, I start at 1 bulb and work my way up from there. If a recipe says a couple of cloves, I assume they mean 6.
The key to making non fatty food is adding the flavor. Fat is the flavor in lots of delicious things so you don’t have to work hard to make it taste good. In this case there isn’t a ton of fat so you have to add a lot of flavor but it will still taste amazing
Add tahini sésame paste to the sauce and red peppers (and if you wish some vegan feta) instead of chicken and you will stay healthy without salmonella and substantially decrease your carbone footprint
@@YungKit of course I'm sure he means healthy in the average since. While honestly at this point everyone's diet is too different to set general health goals, I'm sure for most people these seasonings aren't to unhealthy for them. I understand you have different dietary needs so it wouldn't be healthy for you, but that doesn't make with unhealthy for most.
What I like about your cooking is that you make things kinda your own, according to what suits you. Pretty much being authentic with yourself. I like it
@@QwertyGuy010 I'd not say authentic, I made the same exact dish when I went on diet but that's because its just chicken shawerma without the oily ingredients, even the sauce is garlic sauce without the oil 😅 pita bread and all, that's a shawerma wrap light mode
fellow lebanese here, trust in using it as a spice besides just dipping bread in it. i love it sprinkled on eggs or my favorite is putting it on top of a steak after its seared, so good, can't recommend enough
Its cuz you think the packaging is dirty because you try not to touch it after washing your hands. But if you're handing the raw chicken anyway, it doesn't really make a difference and you save a dish
@@someonethereQIt's raw meat, it doesn't require "cleaning". It already comes as clean as it can and you're cooking it, which kills off anything else on the surface (if anything). Washing raw meat leads to a higher chance of salmonella/e.coli poisoning as you spread the bacteria all around the kitchen sink area and are more likely to directly come in contact with it.
Healthy food that doesn't suck, portuguese way: grab some tuna, codfish, chicken or turkey for your protein. Slice it to thin stripes or small pieces, add your preference of spices and cook it. Cook a mix of peas, carrot, beans, onion and brocoli. Boil some eggs and then dice them. Put them all together and top with some aioli and fresh oregano if you wish. It's delicious and low cost.
@@classypotato9255 seria uma bela de uma salada, não é propriamente culinária portuguesa tradicional, mas sim uma modernização para quem pretende comer bem sem gastar muito dinheiro e sem demorar muito a fazer. Pode dizer-se que é uma ideia de comida saudável e rápida, utilizando alguns dos ingredientes mais comuns na nossa culinária.
Yea I'm here wondering how no one is noticing that its diet shawerma even with the same sauce and bread 😅 I make that too, who has time to make garlic sauce, just make spicy yogurt with garlic
Za’atar on some flaky bread and goat cheese. Just the best combination and brings back so many memories. We’d do half and half and we’d eat the za’atar side first and the cheese side we’d drizzle some honey on top. Chef’s kiss!👨🍳👨🍳
@@guesswhoshere8024 Za’atar is a spice mix originated in the middle east. Majority of Middle Eastern countries are arab countries anyway so I don’t understand your point.
@@PhoenixL0vee of course you don’t. ME refers to the whole of the ME including non Arab countries. So when talking about zaatar (an Arab spice) it’s common sense to specify Arab countries
Let me tell you a good and simple snack with za'atar ppl in the middle east eat, its basically arabian bread (khubus), dip the edge in oil and then in za'atar. We call it zait wa za'atar which means oil and za'atar in arabic
damn i ain't gonna lie this is one the best looking dish i've ever seen in my entire life,like the meal itself look very very good and healthy,the way you presented the food is incredibly simple but looks interesting..also all the ingredients that you put in that food were my favourite and lastly i can't thank you enough for making this dish cuz it reminded me of my grandma's cook. Literally a PERFECT dish. I give it 7.8 out of 10.
bro, this comment was so petty and hilarious, I feel both like crying and like laughing. In these trying times, comments like these really make our day, and it was the perfect comment for this video, well done dude. 7,3 out of 10
Great tips Mike!! I definitely agree that with learning a second language it’s imperative to leave your comfort zone. I’ve noticed that my social adeptness has gone up a bunch since I first started studying Spanish. Loved the tip about traveling to boost your “linguistic self esteem”. Can’t wait to have that opportunity. How is the Swahili going if you don’t mind my asking? Cheers!
Boiled broccoli and carrot with honey then cooked in a pan, together with some salmon, rice and a good sauce with is a very good but healthy meal, definitely recommend it! And for those kinds of people, don’t try to change my mothers recipe , its not cool. Actually, nvm if you find any things that could make the meal even better, feel free to comment it down! I’m up to try stuff out.
Honey negates the healthy if you're going to put liquid sugar on the vegetables to make it taste nice. Honey glazed carrots are elite but they ain't healthy at all. Despite what misleading organic channels say "natural" sugars are just sugars at the end of the day and are near identical to refined white sugar when digested. Fruit, honey etc. are a common slip up for people trying to cut sugar or lose weight.
