Palestinian Musakhan
A delicious family favorite! and the first savory bake on my blog!
Equipment
- Large pot
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup olive oil preferably Palestinian
- 1/2 cup Sumac
- 10 med- large onions
- 2 large bone in chicken thighs
- 2 leaves of bay (bay leaf)
- 5 grains mistaka (مستكة)
- 2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp ground black pepper
- 1/4 cup pealed almonds
- 1/4 cup Pine nuts
- 2 tbsp vegetable or canola oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F or 200°C
- Chop your 10 large onions into 1 cm cubes
- In a large pot and chicken thighs, bale leafs, mistaka, salt, and ground pepper. Bake at 400°F or 205°C for 30-40 minutes depending on your chicken thigh size. while your chicken is baking heat a small skillet on the fire and add your canola oil, toast your nuts then let them cool
- once your chicken is out of the oven add the onions (all ten) and bake covered in the oven for 1 hour
- after 1 hour, remove any onion juice that may have come out of the onions as they baked
- add your sumac and season some more with salt and pepper
- Optional: you can shred your chicken and remove all bones
- brush your bread with some olive oil and some of the onion juice. do not soak it
- add the onions and chicken with your toasted nuts on top and broil each one individually for 2-5 minutes or until the edges crisp up
- enjoy
Notes
Rolls: you can roll these for a more "modern" musakhan
Onions: Check out my onion challenge for some motivation in cutting 10 large onions
Serve: warm with yogurt
Credit to My recipe is given to my grandmother and my Mother Thank you so much Grandma and mother for all of your support in developing this recipe