- 2 sweet potatoes
- A pinch or two of smoked paprika
- 1 lemon
- 1 red onion
- 1 crisp lettuce
- A pack of skinless chicken breasts
- A pot of yogurt
- 1 ridged cucumber
- 2 tbsp olive oil + 1 tsp
- Sea salt
- Freshly ground pepper
- Bowl
- Baking tray
- Kitchen paper or salad spinner
- Cling film
- Rolling pin
- Dish
- Griddle or frying pan
- 1.
Heat your oven to 200ºC/Fan 180ºC/Gas 6. Scrub the sweet potatoes. Chop each potato into 8 chunky wedges. Pop in a bowl. Mix with 1 tbsp oil, a pinch of paprika and a little salt and pepper. Shake to mix. Grate or pare the zest from the lemon. Juice it.
- 2.
Arrange the wedges on a baking tray. Pop in the oven and roast for 30 mins till soft and a little charred. Peel the onion and slice into thin rounds. Pop in the bowl with a squeeze of lemon juice. Rinse the lettuce. Pat dry or use a salad spinner.
- 3.
Pop a chicken breast on a chopping board. Carefully slice through it, holding it down with the palm of your hand. Be carefully not to cut all the way through. Open the chicken out like a butterfly. Repeat with the other chicken breast.
- 4.
Lay a piece of cling film over the chicken. Bash with a rolling pin to flatten them so they are the same thickness. Pop the chicken into a dish. Add a good pinch of the smoked paprika, 2 tsp olive oil and some salt and black pepper. Pop to one side.
- 5.
Spoon the yogurt into a bowl. Rinse the cucumber. Coarsely grate it. Use your hands to squeeze as much liquid as you can from the cucumber. Add it to the yogurt. Stir in 1 tsp oil, a squeeze of lemon juice, the zest and a little salt and pepper.
- 6.
Add the lettuce to the onion. Season with salt and pepper. Squeeze in the last of the lemon juice. Toss to mix.
- 7.
Heat a large griddle or frying pan till it’s smoking hot. Add the butterflied chicken breasts. Fry for 6-8 mins, turning once or twice so the chicken is golden brown on both sides and cooked through.
- 8.
Slice the chicken into finger length pieces. Serve them with the lettuce and red onion, the sweet potato wedges and the tzatzikish sprinkled with a little smoked paprika.