
Good news! There’s no need for a special trip to NYC to enjoy the fantastic flavors of a street cart-style bowl. Our chefs dreamed up this fab vegan version. Fragrant turmeric rice with crunchy almonds and scallions, shawarma-spiced chickpeas, Israeli-style cucumber-tomato salad, and TWO sauces—drizzly hummus and perky hot sauce—all served with warmed pita bread. Now, time to perfect your dipping technique for the optimal saucy and flavor-packed bite.
1 teaspoon
Turmeric
¾ cup
Jasmine Rice
3 unit
Veggie Stock Concentrate
1 unit
Lemon
2 unit
Scallions
1 unit
Tomato
1 unit
Cucumber
4 tablespoon
Hummus
(Contains: Sesame)
2 teaspoon
Garlic Powder
1 tablespoon
Shawarma Spice Blend
1 unit
Chickpeas
2 unit
Pita Bread
(Contains: Sesame, Wheat)
½ ounce
Sliced Almonds
(Contains: Tree Nuts)
2 teaspoon
Hot Sauce
10 ounce
Chicken Cutlets
3 teaspoon
Cooking Oil
5 teaspoon
Olive Oil
Salt
Pepper

• Adjust rack to top position and preheat oven to 425 degrees. • Heat a drizzle of oil in a small pot over medium heat. Stir in ¼ tsp turmeric (½ tsp for 4 servings) until combined. • Stir in rice, one of the stock concentrates (two for 4), 1¼ cups water (2¼ cups for 4), a big pinch of salt, and pepper. Bring to a boil, then cover and reduce to a low simmer. Cook until rice is tender, 15-18 minutes. • Keep covered off heat until ready to use in Step 5.

• Wash and dry produce. • Quarter lemon. Dice tomato. Quarter cucumber lengthwise; slice into ½-inch-thick quarter-moons. Trim and thinly slice scallions, separating whites from greens.

• In a small bowl, combine hummus, 1 TBSP olive oil, ½ tsp garlic powder (you’ll use more later), and juice from one lemon wedge (2 TBSP olive oil, 1 tsp garlic powder, and juice from two lemon wedges for 4 servings). Add water 1 tsp at a time until mixture reaches a drizzling consistency. Season with salt and pepper. • In a separate small bowl (medium bowl for 4), combine tomato, cucumber, half the scallion greens, juice from one lemon wedge (two wedges for 4), a drizzle of olive oil, salt, and pepper.
Pat chicken dry with paper towels; season all over with salt and pepper. Heat a drizzle of oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add chicken; cook until browned and cooked through, 3-5 minutes per side. Turn off heat; transfer to a cutting board. Wipe out pan.

• Heat a drizzle of oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add scallion whites, half the Shawarma Spice Blend (all for 4 servings), 1 tsp garlic powder (2 tsp for 4), salt, and pepper. (You’ll use the rest of the garlic powder in the next step.) Cook, stirring, until fragrant, 1 minute. • Stir in chickpeas and their liquid and remaining stock concentrates. Cook, stirring occasionally, until chickpeas are glazed and liquid has mostly evaporated, 4-6 minutes. • Remove pan from heat. Stir in a squeeze of lemon juice; season with salt and pepper to taste.

• While chickpeas cook, brush pitas all over with a drizzle of olive oil; season with remaining garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Place on a baking sheet and toast on top rack until softened and warmed through, 3-4 minutes. Cut pitas into four wedges each. • Fluff rice with a fork; stir in almonds and remaining scallion greens. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

• Divide rice between bowls. Top with chickpeas and salad in separate sections. Drizzle bowls with hummus sauce and hot sauce to taste. Serve with pitas and any remaining lemon wedges on the side. TIP: If you like, scoop up some of the rice, chickpeas, veggies, and sauces with the pita and eat it all in one bite!
Slice chicken crosswise. Top rice with chicken along with chickpeas and salad.
Chicken is fully cooked when internal temperature reaches 165°.
I'm in love! I did not know that rice could be completely and wonderfully transformed by adding turmeric to it. The shawarma seasoning made the chickpeas so delicious, I could remake this and eat the chickpeas like candy! The crisp cold fresh salad and the warm pita bread with the hummus, all I can say is yummy yummy yummy
This was so good! I believe my pack came with a lot of extra spices so I used that for the chickpeas and omg it was so delicious. Even without the extra spices all the ingredients came together for an amazing meal
Easy and delish. The schwarma seasoning is a bit salty so be careful how much additional salt you use. I like to get it with some tzatziki.
Roasting the pita with seasoning was a game changer and we will never do it a different way ever again
Apparently the last time I ordered this, they forgot to include the chicken, so I was a little disappointed--but I got the chicken this time and bumped the rating up to 4 stars cause it deserved it! The pitas with garlic powder were my kid's favorite part, and I'll be trying that trick with other meals that include pitas.
Very flavorful! We added the chicken, and it was more than two people could eat. Great as leftovers
DO NOT put the garlic powder in the butter. Just toast it and as butter bcz the garlic is too strong. :(
Overall, the meal was good. We are used to making the old version of the Street Cart Bowls and found this recipe to take longer for prep and cooking. This seems to be a vegetarian meal that you can add a protein to, but you won't get instructions on how to incorporate the protein into the meal.
One of my faves actually! I thought i could have done without chicken and the chickpeas couple have been baked instead of on stovetop
One of our favorites for the depths of flavor! We add protein.