Cumin Spiced Chicken Breasts with Cucumber Tzatziki & Potato Wedges | Abel & Cole
Cumin Spiced Chicken Breasts with Cucumber Tzatziki & Potato Wedges
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Prep:15 mins
Cook: 30 mins
Organic chicken breasts are coated in a lemony cumin marinade and griddled till tender, then served with fluffy potato wedges and a fresh, tangy yogurt and cucumber dip for dunking. Now tzatz what we call a good supper.
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649 kcal
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Ingredients you'll need
  • 500g potatoes
  • 2 tsp ground cumin
  • 1 lemon
  • 1 red onion
  • 50g lamb's lettuce
  • 2 chicken breasts, skinless & boneless
  • 150g Greek style yogurt
  • ½ cucumber
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  • 1 tbsp + 3 tsp olive oil
  • Sea salt
  • Freshly ground pepper
Step by step this way
  • 1.

    Heat your oven to 200ºC/Fan 180ºC/Gas 6. Scrub the potatoes. Chop each potato into 8 chunky wedges. Put them in a large bowl. Add 1 tbsp olive oil and a little salt and pepper. Shake to mix.

  • 2.

    Arrange the wedges on a baking tray and slide them into the oven. Roast for 30 mins till soft and a little charred.

  • 3.

    While the potato wedges cooks, grate or pare the zest from the lemon and set aside. Peel the onion and slice it into thin rounds. Pop in a large bowl with a squeeze of lemon juice. Set aside.

  • 4.

    Put a chicken breast on a chopping board. Carefully slice most of the way through it horizontally (don’t cut all the way), holding it down with the palm of your hand. Open the chicken out like a butterfly. Repeat with the other breast.

  • 5.

    Lay a piece of baking paper over the chicken breasts. Bash with a rolling pin to flatten them to the same thickness. Pop the chicken into a dish. Add 1½ tsp ground cumin, 2 tsp olive oil, a squeeze of lemon juice and some salt and pepper. Turn to coat. Set aside to marinate for 5-10 mins.

  • 6.

    Spoon the yogurt into a large bowl. Coarsely grate half the cucumber and pop it in a sieve. Use your hands to squeeze as much liquid as you can from the cucumber. Add it to the yogurt. Stir in ½ tsp ground cumin, 1 tsp olive oil, a squeeze of lemon juice, the lemon zest and a little salt and pepper.

  • 7.

    Add the lamb’s lettuce to the onion. Season with salt and pepper. Squeeze in the very last of the lemon juice. Toss to mix.

  • 8.

    Heat a large griddle or frying pan till smoking hot. Add the chicken breasts. Fry for 6-8 mins, turning once or twice till golden brown on both sides and cooked through. If your frying pan isn’t big enough to fry both chicken breasts at the same time, fry 1 breast then transfer to a warm plate and loosely cover with foil to keep warm while you fry the second chicken breast.

  • 9.

    Slice the chicken into finger length pieces. Serve with the lamb’s lettuce, the potato wedges and the tzatziki.

  • Tip

    Cool as a cucumber
    You just need half the cucumber for the tzatziki. The remaining half will keep in the fridge for a couple of days. Add slices to jugs of water (and G&Ts), chop it into salad or dunk sticks of it into houmous.

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