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Musakhan (Palestinian Spiced Chicken)
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Musakhan (Palestinian Spiced Chicken)

8 ingredients 6 steps wikibooks
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

696
Calories
46g
Protein
8g
Fat
107g
Carbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 6 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Raw Chicken 100g cooked 165
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Walnut 1 walnut half (4g) 26
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Sumac not in our table 0
Pastry not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 200 g chopped raw chicken
  • 300 g chopped white onion
  • 100 g sumac
  • 100 g assorted raw nuts
  • Black pepper
  • White pepper
  • Salt
  • 10 rolls of either Arabic village bread (markouk, or taboun or tannour) or spring roll pastry

Directions

1

Fry the chicken with the onion.

2

Add the salt and the peppers before the chicken is done, and add the sumac 5 minutes from the end of cooking.

3

Fry the raw nuts until they are golden. Add them to the chicken and onions

4

Roll the mixture in the spring roll pastry, and deep fry them.

5

Take the spring rolls out of the oil and let them dry on cooking paper .

6

Serve them hot or cold.

Recipe sourced from wikibooks

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