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Freekeh Soup with Chicken
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Freekeh Soup with Chicken

Freekeh soup with chicken – an ancient Israeli soup of roasted green wheat with a gentle smoky aroma and tender chicken.

⏱ 1 hr 5 min🍽 4 servings 🌍 Middle Eastern👩‍🍳 Afoona

👨‍🍳 Method

  1. 1
    Ahead of time, rinse the grains in a strainer.
    Colander
  2. 2
    Heat the oil in a large pot and fry the onion and garlic in it until browned.
    ⚙ Pan-fryingStoveLarge pot
  3. 3
    Add the carrot and fry 3 minutes.
    ⚙ Adding to the hot fat and fryingStove
    💡Add by cooking time: what needs long (onion, carrot, meat) goes in first, and what burns fast (garlic, dry spices) goes in last, only until fragrant.
  4. 4
    Add the chicken, stock, turmeric, cumin, cinnamon, salt and black pepper and bring to a boil. Turn down the heat and simmer at a gentle bubble uncovered 20 minutes, until the chicken is cooked.
    ⚙ SimmeringStove
    💡A gentle simmer, not a boil: a hard boil dries the food out and clouds it, a slow simmer cooks it evenly.
  5. 5
    Remove the chicken from the pot, separate the meat from the skin and bones and cut into pieces.
    KnifeCutting board
  6. 6
    Add the grains to the pot and cook 20 minutes, until the grains is tender.
    Stove
    💡Noodles and grains cooked in the soup absorb its liquid and keep softening: add them only at the end, when the soup is ready.
  7. 7
    Return the chicken meat to the pot. Taste and adjust the seasoning.
  8. 8
    Ladle the hot soup into bowls, with the vegetables and the meat.
  9. 9
    Sprinkle the chopped parsley on top.
490calories
38 gprotein
47 gcarbs
16 gfat
● protein 31%● carbs 39%● fat 30%

Per serving (630 g), of 4 servings

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (5) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Large pot · Also works: Pot (Cook in two batches)
  • Cutting board · Also works: Plate (Large plate, dulls the knife)
  • Knife · Also works: Food processor (Fast, less control over size) · Kitchen shears (For herbs/dough)
  • Colander · Also works: Lid (a lid held slightly open over the sink, you lose a little) · Slotted spoon (for small amounts)

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