Chicken Salad with a Sumac Twist

This is not your ordinary chicken salad...it has extreme flavor that will excite your taste buds! The secret ingredient is Sumac spice, and used in traditional arabic recipes that comes from sumac plant. It is finely crushed from berries harvested from a bush that can be found in the wild all across the Mediterranean. This spice is tart and acidic, and can easily take the place of lemon. It looks like paprika, a deep red powder, and can be purchased in select stores. I use Ziyad products, including spices such as sumac and other ingredients that I incorporate in all my middle eastern dishes. You can order sumac online:

http://ziyad.elsstore.com/view/product/?id=34070&cid=332

If you are LEMON freak like me, then this salad is perfect for you!

Ingredients:

Any Salad stuff you like, I use:

Romaine lettuce

1 tomato

1 British cucumber

1 yellow green pepper

1 avocado (ripe)

2 tablespoons of sumac

1 teaspoon on cayenne pepper

1/2 cup of feta

1 pound of chicken (2 pieces of chicken breasts)

2 lemons, juiced

2 tablespoons olive oil

Salt & Pepper to taste

Chop all the veggies and place in a bowl.

Season 1 tablespoon of sumac on each breast, rub well with fingers. Dash some cayenne on as well. Make sure to get both sides of chicken. Grill indoors or outside grill. Cut in stripes.

Add lemon, olive oil, salt & pepper in veggies. toss well. Add chicken on top, and sprinkle in feta last.