Chicken Hashweh Recipe

Wash and pat dry with paper towel.

Chicken fried steak recipe using ground beef. 9 oz ground lamb. 1 tsp seven spices seasoning recipe below 1 tsp salt. Pour in the water cover and bring to a boil.

1cut chicken into pieces. Rub generously with oil using hands. Using a trussing needle and thread sew the skin and breast together and underneath the chicken.

Heat the clarified butter in a large pot over medium high heat and brown the chicken on both sides for about 5 minutes each. Cook for 1 hours then remove the foil and continue to cook for another 30 minutes until the skin is golden brown and crisp. In a small bowl crush the peeled garlic with salt for ease of crushing then add fresh lemon juice.

Expect layers of flavor in each bite thanks to aromatics and warm middle eastern spices like cinnamon and allspice. Hashweh is a one pot rice dish loaded with ground or minced beef or lamb lots of toasted nuts and dried fruit like raisins. The spices found in lebanese 7 spice are black pepper cinnamon cloves ginger allspice fenugreek and nutmeg.

That translates literally into stuffing. Served alone or as rice stuffing mixture an easy family favorite. Reduce heat to medium low and cook for about 35 minutes or until the chicken is done.

This essay lebanese chicken rice pilaf hushweh about was my first food related publication which happened to include a recipe for hushweh. Lebanese rice is a classic middle eastern style rice pilaf with spiced meat that is an easy one pot meal to throw together. Cover halfway and let simmer on medium high heat until the chicken is cooked through about 1 hour.

The association of food journalists awarded the essay first place in one of its competitions that year and the essay won me the greenbrier scholarship to the symposium for professional foodwrtiers. Lebanese rice is known as hashweh in arabic. When the chicken comes to a boil skim any fat that rises to the top.

Peel and cut the small onion in half and place in the pot along with the bay leaves and cloves. Pour out 500 ml of the stock for the rice and keep the chicken warm in the remaining stock. 1 small onion finely chopped.

Serves 6 1 x 15 kg chicken 250g ground minced lamb 1 small onion finely chopped 1 tsp 7 spice seasoning 1 tsp salt half tsp pepper. What is lebanese rice. Rub each piece of chicken all over with the mixture and in one layer place on greased baking dish.

Hushwe hushwee which literally means stuffing is a classic levantine dish made with ground lamb and rice seasoned with sweet spices such as allspice cinnamon and nutmeg. It is anything but bland. Recipe of the week.

It appeared in the washington post in 2004. Add remaining spices to this mixture.