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Shish tawook is Lebanese grilled chicken marinated in yogurt, lemon and garlic. The yogurt is what makes it tender, the marinade time is what most people get wrong, and there is a hard upper limit.
Nov 20, 2024
The marinade is the entire dish. Here is what each ingredient is actually for, the ratio that works, and the timing window outside which you make the chicken worse rather than better.
Aug 14, 2026
Paprika for colour, cinnamon and allspice for warmth, garlic for everything else. The blend is small, the quantities are smaller than people expect, and one spice is doing a job you cannot taste.
Aug 14, 2026
You can make very good shish tawook without a grill. What you cannot do is get the same thing, so the method changes: high heat, a rack, and a hard finish under the element.
Aug 14, 2026
Bread, toum, chicken, pickles, chips. The order matters, the wrap has to be pressed, and yes, the chips go inside. This is the sandwich as it is actually sold on the street.
Aug 14, 2026
Both are marinated chicken, both arrive in flatbread with garlic sauce, and they are made by completely different methods. The difference is the heat, and it changes everything.
Aug 14, 2026
A Levantine spice blend and a Mexican corn tortilla share no history at all. What they share is a logic, and that turns out to be entirely enough to build on.
Aug 2, 2026
