Mediterranean
Sumac Roasted Chicken
Sumac Roasted Chicken is Mediterranean home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 8 bone-in chicken thighs
- 3 red onions
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 2 tbsp ground sumac
- 1 tsp ground allspice
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1/3 cup pine nuts
- 1 lemon
- 1/4 cup chopped parsley
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Heat the oven to 425F.
- Toss the sliced red onions with 2 tbsp olive oil, half the sumac, and a pinch of salt, then spread them in a roasting pan.
- Rub the chicken thighs with the remaining olive oil, sumac, allspice, garlic, and salt.
- Set the chicken over the onions and roast until the skin is crisp and the chicken reaches 175F, about 40 minutes.
- Toast the pine nuts in a dry skillet until golden, about 3 minutes.
- Squeeze the lemon over the chicken and onions, then scatter with pine nuts and parsley to serve.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Sumac Roasted Chicken carries tree nuts. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | Yes | Baked Falafel Plate |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Meat or fish, Vegetables, and Nuts and seeds
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Sumac Roasted Chicken takes about 55 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on chicken, onion, and sumac.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
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