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Nasser Jaber and team bring pastelón mahshi and fried chicken over falafel waffles to the Financial District Photos by Gary He
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In her acclaimed
Zaitoun cookbook, author Yasmin Khan calls sheikh el mahshi the “king of Palestinian stuffed vegetables” before going on to recount the difficulties of filling “comically tiny zucchini” with lamb and spices. Likewise, the three co-authors of
Falastin expound on the celebratory role of stuffed vegetables in Palestinian cuisine, with the arduous cutting and coring often handled as a group activity. Their own recipe for mahshi which can refer to any number of rice- or meat-filled veggies across former Ottoman territories is for turkey-stuffed turnips. Sounds delicious.