Easiest Way to Cook Yummy Msakhan sandwiches

May 31, 2020 11:14am - 5 min read

Msakhan sandwiches. Musakhan is one of the most popular and traditional Palestinian recipes. It is usually prepared during the olive oil pressing season to celebrate freshly pressed oil but you can see it on the menu all year round in family gatherings and parties. Musakhan is all about fresh, simple ingredients allowed to shine.

Msakhan sandwiches
Easy and simple Musakhan Rolls Recipe. At such a brilliant time of the year, I have craving for a specialty dish of my mother and it's called "Musakhan", though easy dish and an absolute delight but to be fair the original dish is in need of a certain setting and is quite messy. Musakhan is a Palestinian dish made by piling chicken seasoned with sumac and onions over flatbread. You can cook Msakhan sandwiches using 8 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Msakhan sandwiches

  1. Prepare 1 kg of chicken breast without skin and bones.
  2. You need 1/2 kg of onions.
  3. Prepare 5 of markouk bread.
  4. You need 1 cup of sumac.
  5. Prepare 1 1/2 cup of olive oil.
  6. Prepare 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon.
  7. You need 1 teaspoon of black pepper.
  8. Prepare 1 teaspoon of salt.

I made the quick wrapped version using the Armenian Lavash recipe I posted yesterday. If you want to use premade bread, try to find the thinnest possible Middle Eastern flatbread or tortilla. Keto diet Musakhan sandwiches ‎كيتو دايت ساندوتشات مسخن Musakhan is one of the most popular and traditional Palestinian recipes. It is usually prepared during the olive oil.

Msakhan sandwiches instructions

  1. Place the chicken breast in a saucepan over heat and add water to cover the chicken..
  2. Keep the chicken over heat until it is cooked then remove from heat. Set to cool then fragment it into thread-like pieces..
  3. Chop the onions into wings then fry in a saucepan with half a cup of oil until the onion wilts..
  4. Add the sumac over the onions and mix. Then add in the fragmented chicken and fry well. Season with salt and black pepper..
  5. Leave the chicken and onion filling over heat while stirring constantly for 5 minutes. Then remove the saucepan from heat..
  6. Divide each loaf of bread into 4 sections in the form of triangles then dip the bread triangles in oil..
  7. Place 2 tablespoons of the filling inside each bread section then wrap the bread in the form of a funnel making sure to close it from the bottom..
  8. Place the msakhan sandwiches in a pan coated with olive oil and place in the oven until the surface of the sandwiches turns lightly brown..
  9. Serve the “msakhan” sandwiches hot..

Musakhan – means heated up in Arabic. It is a dish of Sumac seasoned chicken on a bed of onions sitting on a flatbread called Taboon bread. Although this dish is found all around the Levantine area, it is Palestinian in origin. Why a Guinness World Record Matters. But for Palestinians, the world's largest Musakhan was a show of pride and honor far beyond simple bragging rights.

Last updated on: May 31, 2020 11:14am