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Baked Za’atar & Lemon Chicken (Gluten-Free)

by Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne from Genius Gluten-Free Cookbook

A delicious Gluten-Free dinner featuring baked chicken, a colourful salad and tzatziki, this simple baked za'atar and lemon chicken is a nutritious and satisfying meal.

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Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne

Introduction

A vibrantly coloured and satisfying salad, rich in texture and flavour. Perfect for barbeques and buffets.

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Ingredients

4 large skinless boneless chicken breasts
1 lemon, juice
2 tbsp light olive oil
2 tsp ground cumin
2 tsp smoked paprika
2 garlic cloves, crushed
500g brown basmati rice
1 red onion, sliced thinly
400g tinned chickpeas, drained
50g pistachio nuts, roasted until golden
300g courgettes, coarsely grated
1 pomegranate, halved
2 tbsp za'atar, to garnish
2 lemons, juice
2 tsp ground cumin
4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
salt and black pepper
4 heaped tbsp thick Greek yoghurt
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 small cucumber, coarsely grated
2 tsp lemon juice
salt and freshly ground black peper

Method

1. First cook the brown rice for the salad, then cool under cold running water. Set aside.

2. Mix the marinade ingredients together in an ovenproof dish. Coat the chicken breasts in the marinade, cover and chill for 1–2 hours.

3. Meanwhile, mix the lemon and cumin dressing ingredients together and stir in the red onion. Cover and leave to marinate for 1 hour.

4. To make the tzatziki, mix the yoghurt, garlic, cucumber and lemon juice together. Season with salt and pepper. Cover and chill.

Preheat the oven to 200°C.

5. To make the rice salad, pour the cooked and cooled brown rice into a large serving dish, and stir in the chickpeas, pistachio nuts and courgette.

6. Remove the seeds from the pomegranate over a bowl, to catch any juice. Discard any membrane, and stir the seeds and juice into the rice salad.

7. Bake the chicken together with its marinade in the oven for 25 minutes until cooked through. Leave to cool in the hot marinade.

8. To finish the rice salad, stir in the marinated onion with its lemon and cumin dressing and half the cooked and cooled marinade. Taste and season with salt and pepper as needed and spoon into a serving dish. Sprinkle with 1 tablespoon of the za’atar.

9. To serve, thickly slice the chicken and arrange on top of the rice salad, then sprinkle with the remaining za’atar. Serve with tzatziki and the remaining cooled marinade from the chicken.

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