🇵🇸 Palestine
Freekeh with Chicken
Freekeh is a Palestinian harvest story — green wheat fired in the fields — and this platter is how the story is told at the table.
🔪 Prep: 20 min🔥 Cook: 60 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
6 people
✨ What makes it special
Whole-grain freekeh cooked in rich chicken broth until smoky and plump, under bone-in chicken and a heavy hand of almonds.
Ingredients
- 1 chicken, cut in pieces
- 400 gfreekeh, rinsed well
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 tbspghee
- 1 tspallspice
- ½ tspcinnamon
- 80 gfried almonds and pine nuts
- to tastelaban to serve
Method
- 1
Simmer the chicken with onion and spices into a golden broth; keep it warm.
- 2
Sauté the freekeh in ghee until it smells toasty.
- 3
Cook the freekeh in broth, covered, until tender with a gentle bite.
- 4
Crisp the chicken pieces under the broiler or in a pan.
- 5
Mound the freekeh, seat the chicken on top, and shower with fried nuts.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 6