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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Middle Eastern >> Lebanese

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Soak the freekeh in plenty of water, it will start to absorb right away. | 2. Cover chicken with water in large pot. | 3. Bring to boil. | 4. Skim the scum off the top until broth is clear. | 5. Add two onions, cut in half, to remove any bad odors from the chicken. | 6. Simmer for another half hour. | 7. Remove chicken from broth. Set aside. | 8. Strain broth. | 9. Rinse freekeh, drain well. | 10. In a large pot, add olive oil to cover bottom and fry freekeh in it for a couple minutes. | 11. Add some of the broth, without measuring, to cover. | 12. Simmer slowly, covered. | 13. Add broth to keep from drying out. | 14. If you run out of broth, use water. | 15. Cook for an hour or more, making sure it does not get too dry. | 16. A half an hour before serving, heat oven to 400 degrees. | 17. Mix tomato paste, olive oil, salt, pepper and paprika. | 18. Put chicken on baking tray and brush with tomato/oil mixture. | 19. Bake for 20 minutes or until chicken gets a nice toasty finish to it. | 20. To serve, put freekeh on large tray. Top with chicken. Sprinkle with almonds and pine nuts. | 21. Serve with a yogurt salad made of plain yogurt, cucumber, dried mint, chopped green onions, and some salt to taste. Also, serve a salad of finely chopped tomato, cucumber, onion, green pepper, carrot, etc with a dressing of lemon and olive oil. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
wheat	3	lb		5565.585	989.6944	123.6948	123.6948
chicken	2		cut	-	-	-	-
onion	2			128.0	29.888	3.52	0.32
tomato paste	2	tablespoons		26.24	6.0512	1.3824	0.1504
olive oil	4	tablespoons		477.36	0.0	0.0	54.0
salt	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
pepper	1/4	teaspoon		1.4432	0.3677	0.0597	0.0187
paprika	1/4	teaspoon		1.6215	0.3104	0.0813	0.0741
almond	1	cup	slivered toasted	1927.12	0.0	0.0	218.0
pine nut	1	cup	toasted	908.55	17.658	18.4815	92.2995

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.