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Dinner · 35 min · Amounts not specified

Sumac onion chicken

Musakhan-adjacent. A pile of onions, sumac, and fat on chicken.

The sheet · 4 plates · 35 min

easy

Why tonight. Musakhan-adjacent. A pile of onions, sumac, and fat on chicken.

What it needs

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  • chicken
  • onion
  • sumac
  • olive oil
  • lemon

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Method

  1. Slice the onions thin and toss them with sumac, salt and lemon, then leave them half an hour while you work. They go from raw to sharp and sweet.
  2. Salt and dry the chicken, brown it skin down, and take it out underdone.
  3. The onions into the pan with the fat and cooked until they collapse, then the chicken back on top and the lid on until it is through.
  4. More raw sumac over it at the table. Sumac cooked into a dish gives color; sumac added at the end gives the sourness you actually want.

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What the ingredients are actually doing

chicken
Two different foods depending on the cut.
onion
The base under most of this library.
sumac
Sour without liquid, which is a genuinely useful thing to own — it brightens a finished dish where a squeeze of lemon would make it wet.
olive oil
Two ingredients sharing a name.
lemon
Acid you add at the end, not the start.

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