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Dinner · Middle Eastern · Weeknight
Za'atar Chicken Bulghur Bowls
Chicken, done properly, from the public-domain kitchen — kept the way its author wrote it.
- 20 min hands-on
- 30 min total
- Serves 4
- about $4–7 a serving
- Chicken or turkey
- oven
- skillet
- large pot
Open it in the app → Scaled list, tap-off ingredients, and cook mode with timers. The iPhone app is coming soon; the web mockup runs it now.
Ingredients serves 4
- 4chicken breasts
- 1 cupbulghur wheat
- 1 ozmixed olives, drained
- 4 ozbaby spinach, chopped
- 2 tbspza'atar spice blend
- 2Roma tomatoes
- 1lemon
- ½ cupfeta cheese, crumbled
- 2garlic cloves, minced/grated
- 2 tbspwhite vinegar
- 1 tspsugar
- oil
Method one step at a time, with timers in the app
- Preheat oven to 450F. Add 1 1/2 cup water and 1/4 tsp salt to a medium pot. Cover and bring to a boil over high heat. While water comes to a boil, cut tomato into 1/4" pieces. Zest and juice the lemon.
- Add garlic and bulghur to the boiling water. Stir to combine, remove pot from heat, cover, and let stand until bulghur is tender and liquid is absorbed (15 mins).⏱ 15 min
- While bulghur rehydrates, pat chicken dry and season with Za'atar spice blend, salt, and pepper. Heat a large non-stick pan over medium-high heat. Add 1/2 tsp oil, then the chicken. Sear until golden-brown. Transfer chicken to a sheet and bake on the middle rack in the oven until chicken is cooked through (10-12 mins)⏱ 10 min
- Meanwhile, whisk together vinegar, lemon juice, lemon zest, 1 tsp oil, and 1/2 tsp salt in a small bowl. Set aside.
- When bulghur is done, fluff with a fork. Add olives, spinach, tomatoes, and half the dressing to the pot. Season with salt and pepper, then stir to combine.
- Thinly slice chicken. Divide bulghur salad between plates, then top with chicken. Sprinkle with feta and drizzle remaining dressing over top.
Allergens, with the fine print read
- ⚠Contains dairy, gluten, sesame.
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Original recipe by joel-maxuel, published in the public domain by Public Domain Recipes (Unlicense). Shown as written; not yet tested in the Socrabites kitchen.