Djej Bel Bou Sfeir
Chicken With Bitter Oranges
This home-style recipe is a personal favourite comfort food: the recognizable flavours of sour oranges, slow-cooked, tender chicken meat and a ton of the interdit (forbidden) garlic.
Ingredients:
1 chicken, cut in 8 pieces
3 heads of garlic, peeled
2 potatoes, cut in cubes
Juice of 8 bitter oranges (if not available, use the juice of 3 lemons and 4 oranges)
1 tbsp cracked pepper
1 tsp salt
Preparation:
Rub the chicken well with salt and pepper. Put it in a pot (cast iron would be best) with the orange juice, garlic and potatoes and let it soak overnight in the fridge. Next day, cook on very low heat for at least 2 hours, until the chicken is well done and the sauce thickens.
Servings:
4
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Kamal Mouzawak
Founder of Souk el Tayeb, Lebanon’s first farmers market, Kamal is the son of a farmer and producer who grew up in the gardens and kitchens of his surroundings appreciating a good taste for food, life and the experience of food and produce coming from their source of origin. After a career as a graphic designer, Kamal followed a path of food and travel writing, teaching macrobiotic cooking and a stint as a chef on TV preaching his passions as a healthy cook. That all lead to more involvement in change and transformation – social, environmental, and personal; he recently received an award in New York as an “Arab World Social Innovator”. Kamal has been recognized for his powerful impact as a social catalyst using food, community and the individual to celebrate a people around a common language in a country coming out of conflict. Since its launch in 2004, Souk el Tayeb (The market of all good things) had the vision of celebrating food and traditions that unite communities and promoting small-scale farmers, producers and a culture of sustainable agriculture. Today’s Souk el Tayeb is a weekly farmers market, Food & Feast regional festivals, Souk @ School education and awareness programs, el Tayeb newsletter, Dekenet Souk el Tayeb, and the latest project of Tawlet Souk el Tayeb a coop kitchen/restaurant where a different cook/producer prepares the daily lunch.