Baharat Chicken with Chickpea Fritters and roasted vegetables

I'm a huge fan of middle eastern food, the flavours are so exciting and I love playing around with new combinations and ideas. I needed something that I could throw together and still have an enjoyable meal and so i came up with this and it really did fit the bill! Baharat Chicken with chickpea fritters...My whole family enjoyed this including my son who managed to devour three of the chickpea fritters hahaha :)) this is such a simple recipe to prepare and the flavours are wonderful, and makes such a great social family meal...my favourite :))

Baharat Chicken with Chickpea Fritters and roasted vegetables

Chicken

4 chicken thighs

2 tsp baharat spice mix

2 tbsp olive oil

3 tbsp garlic oil

Fritters

1 tin of chickpeas

2/3 self raising flour

1/2 milk

2 eggs

1 tbsp tahini

1 tsp cumin

1/2 tsp paprika (sweet)

Salt and pepper to taste

Roasted veg

Aubergine cut into slices

Courgette cut into slices 

Peppers cut into quarters

2 tsp sweet paprika 

1/2 tsp zatar spice mix

Salt and pepper 

Mix the baharat spice mix with the olive oil and drizzle over the chicken thighs as well as under the skin. Leave to marinade for a few hours (I left mine all day)

Pre heat the oven to 190/180c fan

Prepare you veg and sprinkle over the spices

Place the chicken into the oven and roast until cooked through and the skin is nice and crispy, around 40 minutes

Place the vegetables into the oven, depending on how thin or thick they've been cut, cook for around 30 minutes

Fritters

Drain the chickpeas and place half of them into a food processor along with the flour, milk, tahini, cumin, paprika, egg and salt and pepper. Blend until smooth.

Pour into a bowl and mix in the rest of the whole chickpeas

Heat some oil in a frying pan (medium/high heat) 

Once heated, spoon the batter into the frying pan and cook until golden underneath and then turn over and cook the other side. Remove to a warm plate and continue with the rest of the batter.

Once the chicken is cooked, pull the meat and skin away from the bone, remove the bones and mix the meat around in the sauce. 

Pour the meat and the juices into a bowl and serve with the chickpea fritters and vegetables.

Place a fritter on the plate and stack with chicken, vegetables, some of the juices and a little yoghurt :)

Baharat is a little spicy so if serving for children, mix some yoghurt with chopped mint leaves :)