To marinate the chicken, place it in a large bowl with the spices, orange and lemon juice, vinegar and the sliced onions. Massage the chicken well and set aside to marinate.
For the salsa, take a large oven-safe tray and arrange the peppers (skin side down), chilis, tomatoes (skin side down) and onion (cut side down). Turn on the oven to 230 °C (or as hot as your oven will go) and place the tray on the lowest rack. Roast until the tomato skins are blackened (at least 25 minutes, depending on how hot your oven gets).
Place the roasted vegetables in a food processor or blender with the garlic, cilantro, lemon, orange and vinegar. Blend to your desired consistency, and taste for seasoning. If it needs more acid, add a squeeze more lemon. If it needs a bit of sweetness, add a spoonful of honey or jam. If you like it a tad spicier, add more chilis. Make it your own. Once you’ve reached the right levels of zing and pow, set aside.
To cook the chicken, heat a large pan on the stove. Add the olive oil. Place your chicken slices in the pan without overcrowding it. Cook for 4 -5 minutes or until the chicken is browned on the first side. Flip the chicken and cook for another 3-4 minutes or until browned.
Once all your chicken is cooked, heat the remaining marinade and onions in the pan to cook down. Ladle the onion sauce on top of the chicken. Set aside until ready to serve.
For the tortillas, take each tortilla and heat it in a pan, flipping until it gets a light char. Wrap the cooked tortillas in a clean towel and repeat with the remaining ones.
Dinner is served! Get all your toppings together: the salsa, chicken, tortillas and other accoutrements. Let each person build their own taco according to their preferences.
An empty plate of tacos surrounded by your toppings. (Credit: Jad Abou Jaoude/L'Orient Today)
Jaimee Lee Haddad, usually a graphic designer, loves spending her free time in the kitchen. She shares with us a series of tasty, colorful and easy-to-make recipes.
In Mexico, tacos arabes are made with pork meat. In Lebanon, fajitas are served as a sandwich with fluffy white bread and a green fluorescent shade of mayonnaise.
Somewhere across the sea, things got lost in translation, and yet, the two dishes are both splendid representations of what happens when people crave a taste of home but find themselves far from it, with an altogether different pantry of ingredients. For instance, dried smoked peppers are nearly impossible to find in Lebanon, while they are essential to Mexican-style salsas and marinades.
This recipe below gets you near that smoky place, using ingredients found at any local dekkeneh or khodarjeh, you can have some tacos on a Tuesday — or any other day of the week, for that matter.
Jaimee Lee Haddad, usually a graphic designer, loves spending her free time in the kitchen. She shares with us a series of tasty, colorful and easy-to-make recipes.
In Mexico, tacos arabes are made with pork meat. In Lebanon, fajitas are served as a sandwich with fluffy white bread and a green fluorescent shade of mayonnaise.
Somewhere across the sea, things got lost in translation, and yet, the two dishes are both splendid representations of what happens when people crave a taste of home but find themselves far from it, with an altogether different pantry of ingredients. For instance, dried smoked peppers are nearly impossible to find in Lebanon, while they are essential to Mexican-style salsas and marinades.
This recipe below gets you near that smoky place, using ingredients found at any local dekkeneh or khodarjeh, you can have some tacos on a Tuesday — or any other day of the week, for that matter.
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