Chicken shish tawook (نصائح لتحضير شيش طاووق)

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Saved (planned, August 9, 2025 onward)

Palestinian · main · Serves: amount not given

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Ingredients

  • Chicken breast — amount not given
  • Yogurt — amount not given
  • Garlic — amount not given
  • Shallot/red onion — amount not given
  • Seven-spice — amount not given
  • Tomato paste — amount not given
  • Vinegar — amount not recoverable

Steps

  1. Cut the chicken breast into pieces.
  2. Prepare a marinade with yogurt, garlic, shallot, spices and tomato paste.
  3. Coat the chicken.
  4. Marinate before cooking.

Notes

  • Final A — chicken shish tawook. Status: FINAL — PLANNED.
  • Initial date: August 9, 2025. Later messages: Date not fully recoverable.
  • Unclear: The final vinegar measurement, actual marination duration and cooking method.
  • The pork loin version from the same chat has its own page: Pork loin shish.

My decisions

  • I wanted chicken breast.
  • I chose a yogurt, garlic, shallot, seven-spice and tomato-paste combination.
  • I asked whether four hours of marination was really necessary because I was hungry.
  • I also asked about vinegar quantity.

Variations (ideas from the same chat, in order)

  • Chicken shish tawook.
  • Yogurt-based chicken marinade.
  • Chicken with garlic and shallot.
  • Chicken with seven-spice and tomato paste.
  • Faster-marinated shish tawook.
  • English version of the recipe.
  • Pork loin prepared with a similar marinade.
  • Pork loin without tomato paste.
  • Mustard added to the pork variation.
  • Replacing seven-spice with chicken shawarma seasoning.

Source: ChatGPT archive (recipes-part-2.pdf), conversation 12, August 9, 2025 onward