Food & Drink

Lebanese Baked Chicken

This delicious recipe is so easy it can be made in literally 3 minutes, plus cook time.  The results, however are excellent.  I like to make a wild rice medley in my rice maker which takes about the same amount of time as the chicken baking.  By adding a few veggies to the steam rack on the rice maker during the last few minutes, I have a complete meal in about 40 minutes with barely any effort.

I would like to experiment with this recipe using Fish instead of chicken, and will keep you posted.

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Ingredients:

  • 4 Boneless Chicken Breasts
  • 1/2 cup Olive Oil
  • 1/2 cup Lemon Juice
  • 2 tsp. Oregano
  • 1 tsp. Cinnamon
  • 2 tsp. salt
  • 1 tsp. pepper

Preparation:

  1. Preheat oven to 425℉
  2. Lay the chicken out in a shallow baking pan (i.e. 9x13)
  3. Mix all of the remaining ingredients together thoroughly and pour over chicken.  Turn the chicken a few times to make sure that it is well coated.
  4. Bake chicken  for 30 minutes or until done, turning over at 15 minutes and spoon some juice over chicken.
  5. Sear on a hot grill or panini maker for 1 minute (optional).
  6. When serving, spoon some juice over the chicken.


Buffalo Chicken Wing Dip

Ingredients:


  • 2lbs. Chicken Breasts (approx. 5 breasts)
  • 8 oz. Cream Cheese
  • 1/2 cup Blue Cheese dressing (no chunks)
  • 8 oz. Franks Red Hot sauce
  • 1 cup Chopped Celery
  • 2 cups Cheddar Cheese (shredded)


Instructions:


  1. Fry chicken breasts in Olive Oil.
  2. Chop into small pieces or shred.
  3. Combine all ingredients in frying pan until warm
  4. Place in Crock Pot and cook a while
  5. Serve with Frito Scoop corn chips.

Chicago Dogs

Ingredients:


  • Vienna Beef Hot Dogs
  • Poppyseed Buns
  • Mustard
  • Relish
  • Fresh chopped onions
  • Tomato wedges
  • Kosher pickle spears
  • Sport peppers
  • Dash celery salt


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Preparation: 


Heat in water, steam, grill or microwave hot dog. Place the authentic Vienna Beef Hot Dog in a steamed poppyseed bun. Then pile on the toppings in this order:


  1. Yellow Mustard
  2. Bright Green Relish
  3. Fresh Chopped Onions
  4. Two Tomato Wedges
  5. Kosher Pickle Spear
  6. Two Sport Peppers (careful!)
  7. Celery Salt


For the kids, you might want to leave off the onions and peppers, maybe even the mustard, relish, tomatoes and pickle too...maybe just add some ketchup.


Greek lemon chicken kabobs

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup olive oil
  • 1 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice
  • 1 cup lemon zest
  • 4 garlic cloves, minced
  • 2 teaspoon dried oregano
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper
  • 3 lb boneless skinless chicken breast half
  • 1 teaspoon Parsley

Preparation:

Mix the olive oil, lemon juice, lemon zest, garlic, oregano and pepper. Cut the chicken breasts into 1.5" cubes, and marinate in mixture for 2-12 hours in the refridgerator. Skewer the kabobs, leaving room between them to cook. Drizzle remaining marinade on kabobs while cooking but beware of flare ups due to the high oil content.

Greek Rice

Ingredients:

  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 1 1/2 cups rice
  • 3 cups good quality chicken broth
  • 1 lemon
  • salt and pepper

Instructions:

Grate at least 2 tablespoons lemon peel (or more for a stronger lemon taste); set aside Squeeze out juice from lemon, and combine with butter, rice and broth (salt and pepper to taste) Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer, cover and simmer (without peeking!) for 20-30 minutes, or until the liquid is absorbed Remove from heat, and stir in lemon peel. 
Enjoy while stil warm!

© 2011 Dean Abraham