MELON BAAL CANAF (’MELONS WITH WINGS’)

Servings: 6
Ingredients:

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

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.

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