{"id":1175,"date":"2026-06-30T13:02:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curdhome.co.uk\/recipes\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2026-06-30T13:02:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:02:47","slug":"turkish-spiced-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curdhome.co.uk\/recipes\/?p=1175","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Spiced Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bodytext\">This is from the Telegraph Magazine. The spicing in the marinade sounded interesting so I was keen to give it a try. The recipe suggested marinating the chicken for up to two hours but I gave it three.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\">This is good served with some salad leaves and garlic yogurt &#8211; just grate 2 garlic cloves into 250g Greek yogurt; it&#8217;s a sort of healthier Alioli sauce.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recipePlanning\">\n<h2 class=\"recipe\">Planning<\/h2>\n<table class=\"recipeTiming\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"recipeTimingTitle\">serves:<\/td>\n<td class=\"recipeTimingData\">\n\t  4\n\t  <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"recipeTimingTitle\">preparation time:<\/td>\n<td class=\"recipeTimingData\">\n\t  1 mins\n\t  <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"recipeTimingTitle\">cooking time:<\/td>\n<td class=\"recipeTimingData\">\n\t  1 hr\n\t  <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"recipeIngredients\">\n<h2 class=\"recipe\">Ingredients<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"ingredients\">\n<li>\n\t  8 boned chicken thighs, skinned\n      <\/li>\n<li>\n\t  75ml olive oil\n      <\/li>\n<li>\n\t  juice of 1 lemon\n      <\/li>\n<li>\n\t  1&frac12; tsp ground cumin\n      <\/li>\n<li>\n\t  1&frac12; tsp Aleppo pepper (aka Pul Biber)\n      <\/li>\n<li>\n\t  1 tsp ground allspice\n      <\/li>\n<li>\n\t  4 cloves garlic, crushed\n      <\/li>\n<li>\n\t  Salt &amp; pepper\n      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"recipeMethod\">\n<h2 class=\"recipe\">Method<\/h2>\n<p class=\"bodytext\">Whisk together the olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, spices and some salt and pepper. Put the chicken in a glass bowl and pour over the marinade. Let the chicken marinate for a couple of hours in the fridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\">When ready to eat, heat a griddle or frying pan until very hot. Shake off excess marinade from the chicken and add to the pan. Cook on a high heat to get a good colour, then reduce the heat and flip the chicken pieces over. Cook them until cooked through with no pink juices running when pierced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\">\n<p class=\"bodytext\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"bodytext\"><a href=\"pdf\/TurkishSpicedChicken.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\tGet a pdf version of this recipe.<br \/>\n\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from the Telegraph Magazine. The spicing in the marinade sounded interesting so I was keen to give it a try. The recipe suggested marinating the chicken for up to two hours but I gave it three. This is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curdhome.co.uk\/recipes\/?p=1175\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1bxnG-iX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curdhome.co.uk\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curdhome.co.uk\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curdhome.co.uk\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curdhome.co.uk\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curdhome.co.uk\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.curdhome.co.uk\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/www.curdhome.co.uk\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curdhome.co.uk\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curdhome.co.uk\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curdhome.co.uk\/recipes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}