Roast Chicken:
1 medium organic chicken,about 1.5 kg
3 tblsp olive oil
1/4 tsp ground cloves
sea salt and black pepper
Tomato Sauce
5 tblsp olive oil
5 garlic cloves sliced
4cm cinnamon stick
2 x 400 g tins tomatoes drained and squashed well
Rice:
300g basmati rice
salt
75g butter
4 cm cinnamon stick
1/2 large onion thinly sliced
1 x 400g tin cooked chickpeas drained and rinsed
485 ml of good chicken stock
Fried Aubergine:
2 med aubergines or courgettes cut into cubes
8 tbls olive oil
To Layer up the Fattee
1 quantity of crispbread( Pitta breads split in half and baked in oven until crisp )
500g yoghurt
8 tblsp flat leaf parsley chopped roughly
75 g toasted pine nuts
1. Roast the chicken first sprinkle with cloves and oil when cooked leave to rest and go cool. When easy to handle take meat of the bone and slice into manageable pieces.
2. Tomato sauce – place all in saucepan and simmer until reduced and thickened.
3.Rice . melt the butter and cook the onion and cinnamon then add the rice and stir all round . Add the measured stock and chickpeas add salt place tight lid on pan and leave till the rice has absorbed all the water .
4. fry the aubergine or courgette and drain on kitchen paper.Cover and keep warm .
Now all you have to do is layer everything up .Everything needs to be hot apart from the yoghurt and the crispbread.
Place the crispbread on the bottom,then the rice,then the chicken and juices ,then aubergine ,then tomato sauce then some yoghurt and then lots of parsley and pine nuts.