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Musakhan

↳ from Tulkarm, Palestine

Roast chicken on taboon bread soaked in olive oil with sweet onions and sumac. Many call it the national dish of Palestine.

History

Musakhan is linked to the olive harvest, when families pressed oil and cooked the first of it into this dish.

Ingredients

  • Chicken
  • Taboon bread
  • Onion
  • Sumac
  • Olive oil
  • Allspice
  • Pine nuts

How it's made

  1. Cook plenty of onions in olive oil with sumac until sweet
  2. Rub chicken with spices and roast
  3. Spread onions over bread
  4. Place chicken on top and bake briefly
  5. Garnish with fried pine nuts

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