John Gregory-Smith Friday night takeaway: chicken shawarma recipe on This Morning

John Gregory-Smith served up a tasty Friday night takeaway: chicken shawarma with oven chips on This Morning.

The ingredients are: 200g oven chips, 1 tbsp olive oil, 4 skinless, boneless chicken thigh fillets, about 500g, 250g Greek style yogurt, 4 cloves garlic, crushed, juice of ½ a lemon and ¼ tsp turmeric, plus optionally 1- 2 tsp of a spice mix of your choice from Lebanese 7 spice, baharat, garam masala or ras el hanout.

To serve: 4 tortilla wraps, 1 baby gem lettuce, finely sliced, Chilli sauce and Sea salt.


see John’s recipes in his book titled: Saffron in the Souks: Vibrant recipes from the heart of Lebanon available from Amazon now.