Free Recipe Melon Baal Canaf ( Melons with Wings )

Recipe Type: F Recipes
Recipe Preparation: bake
Cooking Temperature:
Recipe Serves: 6

Ingredients for Melon Baal Canaf ( Melons with Wings ) Recipe

3 sm Cantaloupes
1/3 c Oil
3 c Raw chicken or turkey meat
— chopped
1 ts Salt
2 c Green onions; chopped
1/3 c Parsley; chopped
1/4 c Fresh lemon juice
2 c Cooked rice

Melon Baal Canaf ( Melons with Wings ) Preparation

Cut each melon in half; remove seeds. Scoop out pulp and reserve. Heat oil in a skillet and saute chicken or turkey. Add salt and continue to saute until poultry is cooked through, about 15 minutes. Blend in green onions, parsley and lemon juice; continue cooking until onions are soft. Remove from flame and cool. Add rice to cooled chicken mixture; stuff melon cavities. Chop up 1 cup of reserved melon pulp and place on top. Put stuffed melons into an ovenproof dish; bake at 350 F. for 20 minutes. Serve hot. The authors write: Melon Baal Canaf is a dish that is said to disappear as soon as it is placed on the table, as though it had wings. From _The Yemenite Cookbook_ by Zion Levi and Hani Agabria. New York: Seaver Books, 1988. Pg. 100. ISBN 0-8050-0394-0. Electronic format by Cathy Harned. From Gemini”s MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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