This article was first published on the WeChat public account "One Breath West Coast"
Over the years in the West Bank, there has been no doubt that there has been exposure to a great deal of Palestinian cuisine. Especially when family dinners are held, the styles of food presentation are incomparably rich. From hot soups, appetizers, salads, to meats, staples, and desserts, the whole set is a must-have item for family dinners. When not invited, their own home to eat relatively simple, generally a staple food Gaza salad can be. But when it comes to family gatherings and friends for dinner, it is a rich variety of cooking skills competition.
Today, let's take a look at what is on the Table in Palestine.
One thing that needs to be explained is that the staple food of Palestine is actually based on rice, all kinds of rice, beef rice, chicken rice, lamb rice have a variety of different flavors due to different methods and corresponding names, such as mansef, maqlouba, cabssey, kedreh, ouzi, etc., each according to the method and added spices, etc., the taste is very special, irreplaceable. Among them, ouzi and kedreh are specialties of Palestinian origin. It can be said that every kind of rice is an evocative staple food. Even if it is rolled in vegetables, it is also rice. Even if it is eaten with soup, it will be fried with small vermicelli, or add turmeric powder, or directly fried with olive oil and then simmered with a little salt.
Let's take a look at several Maqlouba looks like, each house makes a different look, the taste is not the same, but the principle is the same. It is nothing more than chicken stew, eggplant potato cauliflower or carrots and other vegetables that can be fried and fried together with the chicken (some will be laid with some tomato slices first) at the bottom of the pot, soaked in the rice on the lid, poured into the chicken broth, and then sprinkled with spices to make Maqlouba, and start simmering. After simmering, a large round plate is buckled on the pot, and then directly upside down, quickly turned over, so that the whole pot of rice out of the pot and then upside down on the plate, so Maqlouba means "upside down". Finally, you can add some fried almonds, sprinkle some green parsley, or sometimes the chicken is not put in, but is baked separately in the oven and then placed on top of the rice, so that it will look better.
The following picture is Ouzi's rice, generally this kind of rice is definitely inside there must be green beans and diced carrots, accompanied by minced beef, it is also a stewed rice, you need to add special Ouzi flavor spices, when plated is also the same as other rice, can be roasted meat on top, you can also sprinkle almond slices.
The picture below is Mansef's rice, which is characterized by lamb or beef stewed in a special sour soup, and the rice is stewed separately, and the final plate needs to be laid on a thin pie crust at the bottom, put on the rice (salty) on the ground, sprinkled with almonds, and then each person with a bowl of yogurt soup, so that the perfect set of Mansef appears. As for how fragrant the yogurt soup called James is, it can be said that the taste is too strong when you first eat it, but after a few times you will be completely addicted to the taste.
The following one is called Musakhan, which is a flatbread with onions and olive oil and then on top of it is roast chicken and Sumac spices, which is a reference to the previous tweet: Ram Alla Na oil painting Musakhan
Here are some of the ways to eat at a family barbecue, usually tomatoes and onions are grilled as a salad, chicken and minced beef parsley onion mixed with Kufta, or simply kebab of beef and lamb cubes.
The following is a staple food that is often made at home, and here Isineeya is used to refer to all the staple foods such as vegetables and meats that are grilled on the plate. For example, the chicken and potatoes below are generally stewed first, and then poured into the baking pan and baked. There are also various ways to roast vegetables.
The following is the so-called stuffing staple food. It is to use special tools to hollow out zucchini or eggplant or carrots or cucumbers, etc., and then stuff the minced beef with a mixture of rice and spices, add the eggplant juice and cook.
Arabic rice mojadara, a rice made with brown lentils and onions as the main ingredient, is recommended in a tweet from the previous few days
Choice of Palestinian vegetarians Mojadara
Everyone likes the grape leaf roll.
Chicken soup boiled jute leaf chopped, served with vermicelli rice, belongs to the national democratic food.
Lentil soup
Meat stew with vegetables, usually four seasons beans and okra, plus tomato and eggplant juice. Serve with vermicelli rice, or rice, but it is also a rice stewed with olive oil
Arabic salad, tomatoes, cucumbers, parsley, etc., plus lemon juice and salt.
The oval is kubeh, usually breaded with minced beef and pine nuts. Fry and eat.
This is Palestine, and I wish you a good appetite every day.
The food is continuous, the excitement is continuous, more food, write about it later.