This dish is a family favorite. Traditionally in Jordan and Palestine, women would prepare meat or chicken with vegetables in a clay pot, then seal it with dough and send it to neighborhood bakery to cook slowly in a the bakery's wood oven. They would usually send it in the morning and get it back in time for the midday meal. The slow cooking in the oven ensured tender meat and beautiful flavors. When neighborhood bakeries disappeared, cooking in a clay pot simply moved to the oven in the kitchen, but it lost some of flavors that you can only get in big wood oven.
The beauty of this dish is that is is extremely versatile. You can substitute the meat for chicken or for bigger bone in pieces. You can put whatever vegetables are in season or are family favorites. You can change the spices around or add spices that are more exotic.
Making this video was especially fun because I got to work with my son on it. He had some good ideas about making the videos more clear and I've tried to implement them as I edited.
Cooking tips:
Try to cut the vegetables as uniformly as possible to make sure they cook evenly
Different ovens may have different cooking times, so check chicken after an hour and half and meat after two hours
On a gas oven I like to cook the fukhara on the highest heat for half an hour before lowering the temperature. On an electric oven I've found you need to keep the heat consistent. The heat suggestion in the video is for an electric oven.
200 Celsius is about 400 Fahrenheit
The beauty of this dish is that is is extremely versatile. You can substitute the meat for chicken or for bigger bone in pieces. You can put whatever vegetables are in season or are family favorites. You can change the spices around or add spices that are more exotic.
Making this video was especially fun because I got to work with my son on it. He had some good ideas about making the videos more clear and I've tried to implement them as I edited.
Cooking tips:
Try to cut the vegetables as uniformly as possible to make sure they cook evenly
Different ovens may have different cooking times, so check chicken after an hour and half and meat after two hours
On a gas oven I like to cook the fukhara on the highest heat for half an hour before lowering the temperature. On an electric oven I've found you need to keep the heat consistent. The heat suggestion in the video is for an electric oven.
200 Celsius is about 400 Fahrenheit
