Chicken with Onions Recipe

Boiled then baked chicken with lots of onions, served over plain rice, or Freekeh, or Arabic-style rice stuffing is a typical Arabic dish!!!

The traditional serving way for serving Chicken with Onions is to spread the cooked rice, Freekeh or Arabic-style rice stuffing in a large serving tray, then pile the chicken and onions on top. We then sprinkle toasted or fried pine nuts and almonds on top.

It is normally served with cucumber yoghurt salad, or a mixed lemony salad. I love the Freekeh or Arabic-style rice stuffing with the cucumber yogurt salad with its garlicy flavor.  

In addition to it being very tasty, Chicken and Onions is very easy to prepare and probably that is why it is very popular to serve Chicken and Onions with Freekeh or Arabic-style rice stuffing in large gatherings and parties. It is a guaranteed crowd pleaser with minimum effort!

The recipe below is for 1 chicken, increase it depending on the number of servings you want. Also, at home we love it with lots of onions, as you will notice from the recipe. If you don’t fancy the onions you can cut them to half.

Freekeh Recipe

In the Western Countries when you want to prepare lunch or dinner the main carbs that come to mind are rice, pasta, potatoes or bread. Rarely does anyone think of Freekeh. Freekeh (pronounced: Free-keh), very popular in the Middle East, is smoked green wheat. Freekeh was first discovered about 2300 years before Christ, in a small village in the Levant area.

Time were tough, the village was under siege! So the village folks decided to harvest their wheat crop early and they then burnt their green wheat. Soon afterwards, they noticed that when they rub the burnt outer layer of the wheat, there were green grains inside. These green grains are what we call Freekeh. Now you know why it is called smoked green wheat, as the wheat is burnt to prepare it.

Freekeh has a distinct smoky, nutty flavor that I love!!! While my attempts to get the family to eat healthier food through trying to introduce brown rice and whole wheat pasta have been disastrously unsuccessful (nobody liked the flavors), luckily everyone in my household loves Freekeh!

Freekeh is very nutritional, even more than brown rice as it has 4 times higher fiber content plus more protein, calcium, iron and zinc. On top of that Freekeh has lower fat content. Perfect wouldn’t you say?!?

Freekeh is sold either as larger grains (used in today’s recipe) that are served as a side dish just as rice, or small cracked grains used to prepare soups, check my yummy chicken freekeh soup. Try Freekeh with my Chicken with Onions recipe. 

Decorated Ice Cubes

I have been browsing the net lately for birthday ideas for my little one. There are SO MANY great ideas out there!!! I was astound! So stay tuned as I share with you more of those in the coming few weeks.

One of the things I liked a lot are these decorated ice cubes at We Share Ideas. They are so attractive! So simple! So easy to make! And, I think it is safe to say, they will be a main attraction at your next dinner party or gathering. It is difficult to imagine that they will not leave a lasting impression with your guest.

Basic Crepes Recipe

I love homemade stuff, especially when it comes to food!!!! A favorite is homemade jam prepared in summer for winter recipes. 

An ideal companion for any jam is crepes. Crepes are so good that there are some restaurants devoted to crepes. Crepes with honey, crepes with chocolate, crepes with jam, crepes with fresh strawberries, crepes with strawberry sauce, crepes with cream, and the list goes on and on.

Today, I want to share with you my basic crepes recipe. These crepes are good for salty and sweet garnishing plus you can prepare your crepes beforehand and freeze them for time of need. Just make sure to lay a layer of wax paper between the crepes, then wrap them well and freeze.

DIY Marshmallow Flower Bouquet

I LOVE, LOVE flowers!

Nothing can brighten my day as a bunch of flowers! So imagine the effect of edible flowers! Flowers are such a great way to express your feelings and love…

You can imagine how excited I was when I accidently found these on this Portuguese site devoted to sharing ideas. The tutorial on how to prepare these beautiful, attractive, impressive marshmallow flowers was so clear and included self-explanatory photos. I am soooo looking forward to preparing these for my daughter’s birthday in two weeks.

You will instantly fall in love with these flowers and you will think, “why didn’t I know about these earlier?!?!”