Easy Chicken Marinade

Ingredients 10 boneless chicken breast strips 1 cup yogurt 2 tsp tomato paste (very important) 1 1/2 tbsp white vinegar 1/2 large lemon juice 1 1/2 tbsp olive oil 1/2 tsp garlic powder 1/2 tsp paprika 2 tsp all spices or Shawerma spices 1/2 large onion 1 tbsp cilantro 1 large tomatos  In a food processor, mix everything except for chicken ๐Ÿ˜‰ until…

Anything Pasta Recipe – Yum ๐Ÿ˜‹

Do you have left over chicken and it looks so sad in the fridge? No worries we can transform it to a delicious pasta ๐Ÿ Ingredients are: Cooked pasta penne if available Left over cooked chicken any shape any form Black olives Basil leaves if available – dried oregano if not Mushrooms if available 1…

Egyptian Roqaq Dough Recipe

Since I started to live in USA, there was always one dish that I crave and I can never make. You can guess by now, it is El roqaq. I tried different weird recipes to replace this delicious pastry or dough and nothing ever worked. It was until one Saturday after a long working week…

Egyptian Chicken Panne – Fried ๐Ÿ˜‰

Traditional Egyptian Fried Chicken or what is known as panne. I love fried chicken and making different variations but sometimes I crave the traditional Egyptian way. 4 boneless chicken breast thin cut 1 large onion sliced 1 tbsp yogurt 1 lemon juice 1.5 tsp all spices salt and pepper 1 tsp Paprika 2 eggs Italian…

Spinach with Ground Beef

  A lot of Egyptians cook the spinach dish in different variations like with meat, no meat, with eggs….etc. But I was never a big fan. I remember when I was about 8 years old, my mom tried to get me to eat spinach for lunch. She was so unsuccessful and it was a long…

Fried cheese stuffed chicken balls!

   what a recipe name?! I should try to be more creative ๐Ÿ˜. So, I had some left over of ground chicken from yesterday’s patties so I decided to make a new dish from them: Chicken balls stuffed with cheese. They are not healthy but…too delicious to pass. It is yummy for my cheat day….

Chicken Patties

I like to cook chicken a lot more than meat! I think it is healthier and budget friendly. Lately, I was a bit bore with all the recipes and I feel like I want to eat more of sandwiches. So, I decided to make chicken patties instead of beef ones, it was really delicious. There…

I am hiding the broccoli from myself!

I am such a lucky mom as my son is a bigย fan of broccoli!! He can eat it raw, steamed or whatever form. So, I do not have to bribe him, convince him or hide it in the food. However, I am really not a big fan and I am so bad at making it…

How to make Bechamel sauce?

This is the Egyptian recipe for the bechamel sauce. I do not like the bechamel sauce too thick. So, hopefully this works for you as well! I am looking for the bechamel sauce to be a bit thicker than the chicken cream soup. It is used for so many recipes including: Egyptian Macaroni bechamel Egyptian…

Homemade Fried Chicken

This is myย KFC version at home. It does not have the secret ingredients or the 11 secret herbs. However, it is super delciious and pretty sure it is made of 100% chicken ๐Ÿ˜‰ ย In Egypt, KFC is pretty different from the one in USA. They have different types of sandwiches and side dishes. The chicken…