Fattet Al Djaj

4 Chicken Breasts

½ cup toasted pine nuts and almonds

1 container of plain yogurt

2 cloves garlic

1 Tbls. Lemon juice

1 Tbls. Vinegar

2 Tbls. Tahini

1 ½ loaves pita bread fried in olive oil

4 cups of basmati rice cooked with turmeric.

1 Tbls. Chopped parsley

  • Clean the chicken breast and boil with chicken bouillon cubes. Let cool and then shred the chicken into medium size pieces.
  • Toast the pine nuts and almonds in the oven or sauté them in olive oil.
  • Cook rice with chicken broth and add turmeric to the rice before it starts boiling.
  • Reserve ½ cup of the chicken broth.
  • Cut the bread in squares and toast the bread pieces in the oven until golden or fry them in olive oil until golden and crispy (this is the way I do it)
  • Mix the crushed garlic with the lemon juice, vinegar and tahini and stir in the yogurt.
  • Add salt to taste.
  • Place the bread in the bottom of a casserole dish then sprinkle with the reserved chicken broth.
  • Add the rice over the bread.
  • Top with the yogurt mixture
  • Layer the chicken on top of the yogurt and then add the toasted nuts.
  • Serve immediately.

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