Chicken with caramelized onion & cardamom rice

Although rice has never been grown locally, it has become a staple Palestinian grain and definitely the basic ingredient in all ceremonial meals (people of lesser means and from the countryside often had to make do with bulgar, which costs less).

Cooking meat with rice and water in one pot is a good way of introducing a good meaty flavour to the rice while keeping things relatively simple — no stock is needed and only one pot is used. Bukharan Jews (from Uzbekistan) have a more soph