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Palestinian maklouba recipe

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Welcome in Palestine

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My name is Zuhair 

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I come from the Dheisheh Refugee Camp, in Bethlehem 

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Today we are going to cook Makluba

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a very famous dish in Palestine  

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a traditional dish 

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All Palestinians cook it

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specially when guests come,
they like to offer it

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And I hope you like it 

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Because we like it and enjoy cooking it 

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Welcome to the Palestinian kitchen

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The most important thing you need is a chicken 

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Before we use it, we clean it well

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We start by frying the vegetables

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While we fry, we are going to cook the chicken 
with the spices we have

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We are going to wait while the chicken is ready

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All the vegetables are ready: the potatoes, carrots...

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...all the vegetables we have fried already

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We have also prepared the rice. We washed it and left it with water 10 min

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We are going to wait until it is really clean

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We have fried the vegetables

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and we are wating for the chicken to cook

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Now, we are going to prepare the salad 

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with tomatoes and cucumber, parsley and mint

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we are going to prepare it now

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we prepare it now because we have  the time 

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we cut the tomatoes 

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in the salad you can put different vegetables

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onions, garlic, mint, green pepper
many different kinds of vegetables

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We have prepared the salad 

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now we are going to prepare the rice, with spices and vermicelli

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we fry the vermicelly before the chicken is cooked

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This vermicelly is for the rice 

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We use corn oil or sunflower oil
not olive oil

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We wash the rice well

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We are going to put spices on the rice

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We put a bit of salt and curcuma

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We cooked the chicken 

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and know we are going to cook the Makluba

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We need to take the chicken from the soup

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We are going to take the vegetables and put them in the pot

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the ones we fried

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we fried  them and prepared them already

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like this

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now we put the chicken 

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we need to take away the onion and the spices

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 We put the vegetables on the chicken

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now we put the rice

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and now we add the soup

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We are going to see if it has enough salt

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We are going to leave the gas strong

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When it starts boiling, we lower the gas,
and it's going to taste delicious

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You are going to love it. 
Bon Appetit!

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After cutting the tomatoes and the cucumber,

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we are going to prepare the parsley and the mint

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we are going to prepare the salad now

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we put some salt, not much

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Here in Palestine we use a lot of olive oil

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In every dish there is olive oil

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The problem is the occupation does not let us grow olive trees

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they have cut down trees and they do not allow the peasants to work their land

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So a third of the Palestinian olives trees have been cut

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by Israeli bulldozers, so now we have become importers and not exporters

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Now they grow the oil and say it is for the Jews, the Israelis

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We are going to put some olive oil, to give it a delicious taste

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and yoghurt! we eat our Makluba with salad and yoghurt

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So it is a really full dish

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But I wanted to tell you something

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Makluba is not an everyday dish

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Maybe once a week, or once a month

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For it is costly and the economic situation of Palestinians is difficult

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So we cant cook it every day.

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When there is a holiday for Palestinians, for example

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On a friday, and the whole family is at home

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and we will cook makluba and the children are happy

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Because we cooked chicken, rice, salat, yoghurt

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It is a big meal for the Palestinian children

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Now the makluba is boiling

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as you can see, and we lower the gas

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Now it needs low gas to cook

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After it starts boiling, we leave it for 30 min

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And then it is ready to eat

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Now the makluba is ready

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and we are going to put it on the big dish here 

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Here is the makluba, bon appetit!

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It is going to be really delicious,
my private recipe is very good! 

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Enjoy

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