The market · Grains and flours · The Middle East

Freekeh

Durum wheat harvested young and green, then roasted — smoky, nutty and chewy.

smoky · nutty

Kinds

Cracked
Cooks in about 20 minutes.
Whole
Takes 40 minutes or more; chewier.

Goes with

chickenlambonionpine nut

Knowing it

Where to buy
Middle Eastern grocers.
A little history
Across the Levant and Egypt the green wheat is set alight so the straw and chaff burn off while the moist grains only toast.

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