🇵🇸 Palestine
Maftoul
Maftoul means "hand-rolled": bulgur pearls coated in flour by patient palms, a craft passed from mother to daughter.
🔪 Prep: 30 min🔥 Cook: 75 min📈 Difficulty: Medium
Cooking for
6 people
✨ What makes it special
Steamed over the chicken broth itself so every pearl tastes of the pot; crowned with caramelized onions and chickpeas.
Ingredients
- 500 gmaftoul
- 1 chicken, cut in pieces
- 3 onions, sliced
- 300 gcooked chickpeas
- 1 tspallspice
- ½ tspcinnamon
- 1 tspcumin
- 3 tbspolive oil
Method
- 1
Simmer the chicken with spices into a fragrant broth.
- 2
Steam the maftoul over the simmering broth, fluffing between steamings.
- 3
Caramelize the onions slowly in olive oil; warm the chickpeas in broth.
- 4
Crisp the chicken under the broiler.
- 5
Mound the maftoul, top with chicken, onions, and chickpeas, and ladle broth over each plate.
🍽 On your table
How this dish looks served for 6