Tag Archives: chicken, white meat

Iraqi-Jewish chicken and rice (Tibeat)

  A dish  in Nawal Nasrallah’s Delights from the Garden of Eden listed as an Iraqi-Jewish traditional meal served on the Sabbath in Baghdad and cooked in a tannour. The tannour was a wood-fired  communal oven; it is still being used in some rural areas in Lebanon today to make bread. The chicken and rice [...]
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Persian chicken and butternut stew (Khoresh)

Living in Los Angeles and Orange County allowed me to meet and befriend Persians and fall in love with Persian cuisine. It is a refined and exquisite cuisine  and one from which there is much to learn. The easiest introduction to Persian cuisine is through the rich and varied khoresh or stews. Just as in [...]
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Couscous and cauliflower salad

This is a light yet filling salad; the couscous and cauliflower mesh so well that they are hard to tell apart, the chicken bits seasoned with sumac and pepper bring some tasteful protein and the raspberries jolt the taste buds with tangy notes.   INGREDIENTS: 6 to 8 servings   9 ounces of cauliflower florets [...]
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