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About Freekah

Appears in
The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey

By Laila El-Haddad and Maggie Schmitt

Published 2021

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Freekah is an extraordinarily nutritious green wheat product traditionally used in rural areas throughout Palestine and the greater Levant. It has recently enjoyed a boom of popularity in the West, being called “the next super grain.” In Australia, “Green Wheat Freekeh” has even recently been trademarked!

Making freekah requires harvesting wheat in the early summer while the grains are still milky, before they dry. The green sheaves are dried in the sun for just a few hours, then burned in a highly controlled and rapid fire. The charred chaff is then winnowed away, leaving greenish grains imbued with a rich, smoky flavor. These can be left whole or coarsely milled.

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