I love curry anything and Tabbouleh, I could probably eat it every week! This is a simple week night meal especially if you aren’t making the naan, humus, and Tzatziki. All of those ingredients can be usually store bought if you’re in a crunch! I usually make my own but when I made this I was exhausted and my husband laughed at me when I said this was my “easy cheat meal”… Meaning I didn’t make it all from scratch…He thought I was crazy and loved it all. I felt like I was cheating, mainly because I knew I can make all of those things pretty well. It just adds another hour minimum of work and lots of dishes to clean 😦 Needless to say sometimes you just gotta cheat and it’s not like I caved and ordered a Domino’s Pizza :)… YUCK! So for all you Austinites out there if you need to cheat to make this meal go to Whip In pick up some house made Naan, some Grandma’s Hummus, and some Tzatziki (you can get the Tzatziki at HEB if they don’t have any, I have not personally bought the Tzatziki there only the hummus and Naan).
Cook: 10-15 min
Serves: 2 -With extra tabouli left over for lunch the next day 🙂
Ingredients:
For chicken
- 2 Free range chicken breasts, about 4-6 oz each, cubed.
- 2-4 Pieces of warmed Naan (you may want extra to dip in your hummus).
- Grind in a mortar and pestle : 1 tsp Hot Madras Curry Powder, 2 threads of saffron, 1 tsp Garam Masala, 1/4 tsp Tumeric, and 1 tsp. black pepper. I will be making a ZBD blend of this as well available for purchase very soon!
- 2 Lemons, juiced.
- 1-2 Cloves of garlic, minced
- 1 TBS butter
- Cucumber slices
- Tomato slices
- 1/2 C. Wheat bulgur, soak in 2 cups of hot water for 20 min covered- until soft.
- 1 Large organic tomato, cubed (get a firm one).
- 1/4 C. Finely chopped mint, organic
- 1/2 C. Finely chopped parsley, organic
- 2-3 TBS Quality olive oil
- 1/4 C. Organic lemon juice
- 1/4 C. Scallions, organic
- 1 TBS. Pepper, fine
- 1 tsp. Sea salt
- 1tsp. Garlic powder
Instructions:
- Soak bulgur wheat in water and transfer to a strainer, then to a medium mixing bowl. Add components from above and mix well. Refrigerate until ready to serve. It’s even better the next day 🙂
- Prep chicken and heat butter in large skillet on medium high until butter is bubbling. Add chicken and spices and toss so chicken is covered. Add lemon juice and cook until chicken is done. About 10 min depending on cube sizes. Get a nice browning on the chicken. Warm Naan in oven for about 4-5 min on 350 F. while chicken finishes up.
- Once done place chicken in Naan wraps and top with cucumber and tomato slices and drizzle to Tzatziki on top if desired and serve with a side of Tabbouleh and Hummus!
- I like to serve the hummus with some extra Naan. Enjoy!
All looks scrumptious!
🙂 Mandy
Looks like my dream lunch today! And I love that you use a pestle & mortar 🙂
Thanks! I love grinding my own spices up, they just have such a wonderful flavor when you do:)
I agree! It makes a big difference.
Thanks Mandy! 🙂
I love this meal. It’s good anytime of the year, but I like making tabbouleh while I have fresh mint. I actually still have fresh mint… hmmm.
Thanks Greg! Do it! 🙂
Yay, I make my tabbouleh salads pretty much exactly the same way, though sometimes I add some lime juice as well as lemon. Did you ever try it with some grilled halloumi cheese? I agree – I could just eat the stuff until the cows come home 😀 Great looking dinner – a lot of my favourites (hummus… omg! – though since I started making my own and seeing how cheap and easy it is I never bought it since!)
Thanks Charles! Ohhhh I will try lime next time! The grilled cheese sounds wonderful! I usually always make my hummus, this was just one of those days where I needed REALLY quick and easy 😉
If you love curry, then you must come to my country someday to try all sorts of different curry prepared by the various ethnic and cultures 🙂
There’s Indian, Malay, Chinese, just to name a few 😉
These look really good for light bites or even for a meal 😀
Thanks Christy! Where do you live? My in-laws travel a lot for work and we always visit them, this year we went to Korea and in 2012 we will be going to Singapore and Thailand! I cannot wait, my favorite part is the food! 🙂 Thanks for stopping by my blog!
You’re in Austin! I don’t know how I missed that. Two of my favorite people live in Austin. Both are awesome writers and one moonlights as a food stylist. I love curried chicken, but only eat tabouli in tomato season.