Tebeet (A Sephardic Chicken Cholent)

Category: Main Dish

Cuisine: American

1 review 
Ready in 45 minutes

Ingredients

1/2 ts Pepper

2 Tomatoes, diced

4 c White or brown rice

1/4 ts Turmeric

1/4 Tso nutmeg

1/4 Tso cloves

1 lg Chicken, with fat

1/4 Tso cinnamon

3/4 ts Cardamom

4 ts Salt

2 tb Tomato paste -or-

8 c Water (up to 10)


Directions

Use 8 quart pot Yields 8 to 10 servings Here are two recipes from Spice and Spirit published by Lubavitch Womens Cookbook Publications ( a most wonderful cookbook!) While this first contains 2 quartered potatoes, you could just leave them out, or substitute additional beans or sweet potatoes. Clean chicken and remove pieces of fat. Set chicken aside and put fat into heavy 8 quart pot. Add pepper and turmeric and cook over hight flame for 5 minutes until fat melts. Place chicken in fat and brown on all sides. In a large bowl, mix water and tomato paste. Add salt and remaining spices. Pour mixture over the chicken, bring to a boil. Cook 10 minutes. Remove chicken and set aside. Add rice to boiling sauce in pot, and cover. Lower flame and cook 15 minutes. Replace chicken in pot---add more water if too dry. Cover and place on bleck before Shabbat. Posted to JEWISH-FOOD digest V96 #099 From: msteinhorn@exit109.com Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 22:03:48 -0500 (EST)

Reviews


My mother is Iraqi jewish. She always talked to us about Tebeet who she had when she was 8 years old. She did not see her mother and she raised by her father and step mother who are both Muslims. Thus she does not know how to cook Tebeet, although she remmber it very well, as a friend of her mother who was also jewish used to cook for her. Any way, my mother is 65 years old now, and finally we were able to find the recipe and cooked Tebeet for us using this recipe. not only it test so good, but also it meant a lot for us and for our mother. Thank you very much for making my mother dream true and brining back her good memories. Suhair

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