Complete Arab Cookery – Arto Der Haroutunian (1)

6 Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the melte ue _ butter. thread. 9 Mix the yogourt with the remaining salt and pepper and brush this mixture over the chicken. 10 Cook in an oven preheated to 180°C (350°F, Gas Mark 4) _ for 14-2 hours, basting occasionally with the chai mixture. 4 il When ready to serve heat the ne stuffing and “serve with the chicken. 4-6 servings | doptes stuffed with chicken and nuts Complete Arab Cookery recipe is, in part, a local adaptation of an Iranian dish ~- Dolmeh Sib, stuffed apples.

, 8 medium-sized cooking apples 225 g (‘4 lb) cooked chicken flesh, ‘anced or finely chopped 1 teaspoon salt ’, teaspoon black pepper 50 g (2 oz) breadcrumbs 6 cloves 50 g (2 oz) chopped nuts Y teaspoon turmeric 75 g (3 02) raisins ¥, teaspoon cinnamon Y. teaspoon ginger Sugar 50 g (2 0z) butter Wash the apples, core them and scoop out enough flesh to make a hole about 2:5-3-5 cm (1-1/4 in) in diameter.

~ 2 In asmall bowl mix the chicken with the salt, pepper and breadcrumbs. 3 Add the cloves, nuts, turmeric, raisins, cinnamon and ginger and mix thoroughly. 4 Now stuff the apples with this mixture, but do not press too hard. 5 Arrange the apples in a large ovenproof dish and add sufficient hot water to come about halfway up the apples Sprinkle some sugar on to each apple.

Cut the 50 g (2 0z) butter into 8 pieces and put one knobon: top of each apple. 8 Bake the apples in an oven preheated to 180°C (350°F, | Gas Mark 4) for 30-40 minutes. Take care not to overcook or the apples will split. 9 Serve immediately, with boiled rice. — 4 servings ‘¢ Poultry Dishes Grilled small birds and pigeons When we were children we used to go to the woods and shoot, with home-made catapults, assafeer (small birds) which were plucked, washed and grilled on makeshift kebab grills and then eaten most heartily.

I always remember a popular song of those days: Ana Asfoura, Ana Asfoura… I am a little bird my heart in flame, Love and desire wings in flame. I am alittle bird from the shores of the Nile, I am a little bird in love, true love… I recall this song even today since it was the equivalent of a ‘number one’ at the time. The very air of my childhood seems to have been filled with little birds in love.

The following recipes then are for small birds and pigeons.

Armenian Apostolic.Church, was invited to head the local church in Manchester and brought the family over to settle in England. Arto der Haroutunian qualified at Manchester _ University as an architect and set up his own practice. In 1970, with his brother, they set up their first Armenian restaurant specializing in authentic Middle Eastern dishes. He. has always been interested in good food and was fortunate enough to have an excellent teacher — his mother, whose advice and guidance was always sought over the preparing of menus for the restaurants.

Apart from catering afd architecture, his main interest is Painting, with which he has achieved a considerable degree of success, He has exhibited all over the world with works in many major collections. He is married with a young son. Published by Granada Publishing Limited in 1982 J _ ISBN 0 583 13559 5 A Granada Paperback UK Original Copyright © Arto der Haroutunian 1982 Granada Publishing Limited Frogmore, St Albans, Herts AL2 2NF and – 36 Golden Square, London WIR 4AH 866 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA 117 York Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia 100 Skyway Avenue, Rexdale, Ontario, M9W 3A6, Canada 61 Beach Road, Auckland, New Zealand Printed and bound in Great Britain by Cox & Wyman Ltd, Reading Set in Times This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out,6r otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed ‘on the subsequent purchaser.

Granada ® Granada Publishing ® Arto der Haroutunian Complete Arab> Cookery A MAY FLOWER BOOK GRANADA London ‘Voronto Sydney New York ultry Dishes eat a Vegetables: Dishes: Note Both Imperial and metric weights and measures are given in this book. Either should give perfect results but they are not equivalents and therefore are not interchangeable. Do not mix Imperial and metric weights and measures in the same recipe. Use either one or the other. ec Introduction The caribindtion of a sibel solidarity. ahd a religious drive is.

: # pprcrmnelming: Seats Ibn Khaldoon, thibtepionivenneel historian Le ; History and People BL %, The history of the Arabs is a long one, and the Bedouins of the Arabian Peninsula, who have to date retained the tribal and nomadic customs of their ancestors, represent a way of life which goes back to prehistoric times. Yet exactly how far the Arabs go back, and whence they originated have still not been satisfactorily explained.

The name Arab was first.

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