Palestinian Territories recipes
Recipes from Palestinian Territories: home cooking with cultural background, ingredient substitutes and step-by-step instructions.
Musakhan: Palestinian Roast Chicken on Flatbread with Sumac Onions
Musakhan (مسخّن) is a Palestinian dish of flatbread topped with onions cooked in olive oil and sumac, baked with chicken. Covers substitutes for the taboon oven, heat that keeps the onions from scorching, the right dampness of the bread, storage, and whether to make it, for a home kitchen, with notes on pine nuts and allspice.
Mahshi Lift: Palestinian Stuffed Turnips in Pomegranate-Tamarind Sauce
Mahshi lift as a Palestinian home dish: the meaning of the name محشي لفت, hollowing the turnips, filling them with rice and meat only about three-quarters full, a sour pomegranate and tamarind sauce, a low simmer that keeps them from splitting, ingredient substitutes, fixing collapsed turnips, storage, and how to serve.
Maqluba: Palestine's Upside-Down Rice
How to make maqluba, a Palestinian home dish: layering chicken, eggplant, cauliflower, potato and basmati rice in a pot, the heat and rice-water amounts for flipping it without collapse, spice substitutes, yogurt on the side, menu ideas, storage and reheating.