Lunch & dinner

Grilled samak with freekeh and salata

  • Lunch & dinner
  • Arab & Levantine
  • 30 min hands-on
  • Halal

Ingredients

One standard portion

  • 110g white fish (cod, basa or tilapia)
  • 90g freekeh (dry weight)
  • 15g olive oil (3 tsp)
  • 80g tomatoes
  • 80g cucumber
  • 20g onion

Season as the method describes. Spices, salt, lemon and water aren’t weighed or counted below.

Per portion

Calories
599kcal
Protein
35g
Carbs
73g
Fat
19g

Added up from each ingredient’s typical values per 100g. A standard portion is this meal’s share of a 2,000 kcal day.

Method

  1. Simmer the freekeh for twenty minutes.

  2. Rub the fish with cumin, garlic and lemon; grill eight minutes.

  3. Serve with a chopped salata dressed in the olive oil and lemon.

In a plan

This is one of the dishes our plans cook from, and plans serve it for lunch or dinner, or as the iftar meal in Ramadan. There, the white fish (cod, basa or tilapia), freekeh (dry weight) and olive oil are weighed out to your own numbers; everything else stays as written.

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General guidance, not medical advice. Please check with your doctor if you have a medical condition, are pregnant, or are new to exercise. Check every ingredient against your own allergies.