Stuffed Chicken

Djaj mahshi

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Classic Palestinian Cuisine

By Christiane Dabdoub Nasser

Published 2000

  • About

Easy to prepare, chicken stuffed with meat, rice and pine nuts is a festive dish and its success depends greatly on the clever use of fresh spices. In preparing this dish, you have to count one stuffed chicken for every four persons.

Ingredients

  • 1 lemon
  • 1 large chicken (about 1.5 kilos/3 lbs

Method

Rub the chicken with the two halves of a lemon and set it aside for half an hour, after which rinse it under the tap and leave it in a colander to drain. Just before stuffing it, rub the inside with salt and nutmeg and sprinkle salt and white pepper on the outside.

Meanwhile brown the ground beef in the butter on a high heat, stirring occasionally, until all the liquid from the meat is