Name: Musakhan
Yield: Serves 4 as a generous main course
Cuisine: Turkish
Ingredients: 80 g pomegranate molasses; 100 g dried currants; 1 packet of thin Lebanese flat bread or tortilla wraps (4–8 wraps, depending on thickness); 2 small red onions, peeled and sliced as thinly as possible (about 150g); a little olive oil, for brushing; 240 ml water; 1 tsp + 1 tsp salt; 1 tsp sumac (or juice of 1 lemon); 3 large onions, peeled and thinly sliced (about 450g); 1 whole dried chilli (you can shake the seeds out to make the filling milder); seeds from 1 pomegranate; 1 large bunch of parsley, picked (about 30–40g); 8 chicken thighs with skin and bones (about 1kg); a pinch of sea salt; 1 tbsp olive oil

Preparation info

Serves
4
as a generous main course

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Honey & Co

By Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer

Published 2014

About

A mutual friend brought Ash to the restaurant. He liked us and loved this dish, and we liked him a lot. On that first visit he declared himself our ‘second cousin, once removed’, and every time he comes, it’s a great joy. In his opinion, we have yet to prepare a chicken dish, or any dish for that matter, that is better than this one, and he doesn’t understand why we don’t keep it on the menu always. Every so often, when we feel it’s been too long, we will drop him a line, saying, ‘Hi cuz, w