Musakhan Recipe
Musakhan is the national dish of Palestine, and it is as tasty as it is unique.
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Servings: 8 people
Calories: 732kcal
Ingredients
For The Chicken
- 8 Whole Chicken Legs skin and bone on
- 3 tbsp Olive Oil
- 1 tsp Seven Spices
- 1 tsp Sumac
- ½ tsp Salt
For The Bread
- ¾ Cup Olive Oil
- 8 Onions chopped
- 1 tbsp Salt
- 2 tbsp Sumac
- 1 tbsp Cumin
- 2 tsp Seven Spices
- 8 Taboon Bread large
- ¼ cup Pine Nuts roasted
Instructions
For The Chicken
- Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).
- Mix the olive oil, seven spices, sumac, and salt in a small bowl.
- Place chicken in a baking tray, using your hands rub the spice mixture into the chicken skin.
- Bake for 40 minutes until well done.
For The Bread
- Put the chopped onions with the olive oil in a pan over medium heat. Cook stirring occasionally, until onions are soft and translucent. Do not brown.
- Mix the salt, sumac, cumin, seven spices. Add to onions once done.
- Split the onion mixture between the taboon bread loaves spreading on the bread leaving a rim around the edge.
- Place one chicken leg on each loaf of bread. Sprinkle equally with a few pine nuts.
- Place each loaf under the grill to toast the bread slightly.
- Serve while hot.
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Nutrition
Serving: 8people | Calories: 732kcal | Carbohydrates: 43g | Protein: 28g | Fat: 49g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Cholesterol: 119mg | Sodium: 1432mg | Potassium: 527mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 130IU | Vitamin C: 8.4mg | Calcium: 96mg | Iron: 2.9mg