Super Freekeh Quails

My family used to keep quails in cages on the balcony of our apartment in Istanbul because my father believed eating their eggs would help my stepsister’s asthma.

Quails are thought to have originated in China, but they were cultivated for food by the Egyptian pharaohs and became popular in Anatolia during the Seljuk period (in the eleventh and twelfth centuries). We don’t know how the Seljuks cooked them, because they weren’t big on written records, but a few hundred year