Musakhan (Sumac Chicken)
Ingredients
- 3 pounds (1.3kg) chicken thigh
- 4 1/2 pounds onions
- 1 cup Sumac
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 6 cardamom
- 3 tbsps salt
- 4 cups olive oil
- 2 tbsps mixed spice
- 6 Arabic pita bread
- 2 tbsps Ac’cent or umami seasoning AJI-NO-MOTO® (MSG)
- 4 cups water
- Cashew nuts for garnish
Directions
Fry onions with olive oil.
Add sumac, mixed spice, salt and AJI-NO-MOTO®, and set aside.
Boil chicken and onions in water with salt, cinnamon sticks, cardamom and AJI-NO-MOTO® for 15 minutes.
Set aside chicken pieces on a tray.
Combine olive oil and sumac, and put it on the chicken.
Bake chicken for 20minutes in oven (180°C/360℉).
Layer Arabic pita bread, fried onions and chicken pieces.
Garnish with cashew nuts and onions.
Serve!
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Chicken
Inosinate: 150-230mg/100g
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