Musakhan

Name: Musakhan
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Ingredients: 1.5kg chicken pieces; 1kg onions, thinly sliced; 3 tbsp sumac; 1 tsp allspice; 1 tsp cinnamon; 4 tbsp olive oil; 4 flat breads or pita; 50g toasted pine nuts

Palestinian roasted chicken served over taboon bread with sumac-caramelised onions. Cooking the onions low and slow for a full forty minutes before the sumac and spices go in is what turns them deeply golden and sweet, the base musakhan is built on.

Total time

75 min

Prep

15 min

Cook

60 min

Difficulty

medium

Cuisine

Middle Eastern

Ingredients

1.5kgchicken pieces

1kgonions, thinly sliced

3 tbspsumac

1 tspallspice

1 tspcinnamon

4 tbspolive oil

4flat breads or pita

50gtoasted pine nuts

Instructions

Fry onions in olive oil over medium heat for 40 minutes until deeply golden.

Add sumac, allspice and cinnamon. Cook 5 more minutes.

Season chicken. Place on top of half the onions on a baking tray.

Roast at 200°C for 40 minutes.

Lay flatbreads in baking dish, top with remaining onions, then chicken.

Return to oven 10 minutes.

Scatter pine nuts. Serve.

Nutrition (estimated)

Per serving, based on a standard 4-serving portion and standard nutrition references — not a lab or USDA-verified measurement.

Calories

1044

Protein

104.3g

Fat

55.5g

Carbs

28g

Fiber

6.6g

Sodium

330mg

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